Phys. Ranged lost their "support" back in ShB when the devs decided that aggro and assisting in team MP recovery wasn't good enough to keep.

Phys. Ranged just has the unfortunate problem of being free of range limit and no cast time so the devs use this as an excuse to keep them below everyone else on the dps spectrum.

Until the devs add back some complexity to the combat system, everyone is just a dps.