Boring design

[aiqa]

If you're talking about the Dimensional Shift baits, all 4 ranged have to do that, so it's not exactly something that makes use of the physical ranged in particular.

I'm more talking about stuff like the aforementioned missile bait during Pantokrator 2 or the Mustard Bomb tether also in O11S that the physical ranged can take without losing damage and just get covered by the PLD for the Atomic Ray after. Stuff that makes use of their free mobility to make mechanics less annoying for others.

How often can we realistically expect mechanics that heavily favour specifically physical ranged role. It seems highly improbable to me those will get added to any significant number of encounters.

[Supersnow845]

How often can we realistically expect mechanics that heavily favour specifically physical ranged role. It seems highly improbable to me those will get added to any significant number of encounters.

I mean why not, the way square balances the DPS encourages you to always bring at least 1, why not have mechanics that uniquely challenge each of the 3 DPS subtypes rather than just lumping them in as collective “DPS” which shoves casters and phys ranged to the side because when there is no unique mechanics for roles you lose incentive to bring anything besides melee outside of the 5% bonus which the melees are so much stronger than everyone else now the 5% is more relevant to the healers mitigation plan than your damage anyway

[ty_taurus]

How often can we realistically expect mechanics that heavily favour specifically physical ranged role. It seems highly improbable to me those will get added to any significant number of encounters.

We have double stack markers targeting both healers in literally every fight nowerdays. We have the entire Myths of the Realm raids being like 85% half-room cleaves. Having something that requires a lot of movement bait-able by the farthest player from the boss is not that specific that we can't see that more often.