They forgot Ranged Physical is a role in the game

[Valence]

They literally forgot. Not a single line about any changes in the jobguide 7.1 adjustment explanations.

[Carighan]

"Ranged Physical"? You mean Gunbreaker, yes?!

[Sililos]

Phys ranged are always the "You will get nothing and like it" role too the devs lol. Dancer didnt even get to exist in Shadowbringers with Gunbreaker being smeared over every square inch of the game.

Still i guess if were the "This is fine." role, We wont get any large, broken nerfs nobody asked for nor were needed etc. Silver linings etc.

[Iedarus]

Melee is the new Phys Ranged. Look at how massive the boss hitboxes are.

[Carighan]

I mean you could say the same about melee, tank and healer (caster sort-of have an excuse because at least they're somewhat meaningfully differentiated from each other, even if virtually nobody except Red Mage casts). The jobs are all highly sanded off, healers just spam their filler nuke while tanks passively keep aggro and resist most damage, too. As far as design goes, they might have remembered the jobs exist, but they sure forgot what role people would want to play.

[BabyYoda]

is SMN a physical range job?

[Carighan]

is SMN a physical range job?

For all practical purposes, yes. Since from a player perspective, "physical ranged" just means "near 100% mobility and also not a melee job". Though with the amount of ranged attacks on say Monks now and the amount of melee uptime from modern hitboxes, even that line is starting to blur significantly.

But yeah from that perspective Summoner is def a PRanged job, and Black Mage and Pictomancer sometimes feel like they're starting to be one, too. At this rate it'll only be Red Mages that have any signficiant amount of actual casts left in their damage rotations in 1-2 expansions, everything else is all-instant-all-the-time. :P

[Valence]

is SMN a physical range job?

No it's better, as it offers similar uptime and mobility, and way better and valuable party support in the form of healing and raises.

[Serenaya]

No it's better, as it offers similar uptime and mobility, and way better and valuable party support in the form of healing and raises.

You have very little control over when that healing happens so I'm not sure about that being very valuable honestly.

Anyway, didn't notice they just didn't include this. Phys-ranged in a nutshell. Get the feeling they all sigh heavily in unison whenever it comes to making any adjustment to them. Would explain why Tilana hasn't been changed yet.

[Valence]

I'm sure that having that much party wide healing every minute removes most concerns about control to be honest.