They forgot Ranged Physical is a role in the game

[Connor]

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Ok I’m sorry but this entire post isn’t making sense lol.

Firstly, how is making physical ranged do literally the one unique thing they’re advertise to offer…going to invalidate healers ?!That’s a whole other role honey, they don’t compete for spots.
You…you know physical ranged can’t heal right? You honestly think Curing Waltz is going to invalidate healers and have every single one replaced with a Dancer? Bards and Machinists are literally incapable of restoring party HP. You know Summoners and Paladins can already do that right? But that’s totally cool, as long as it’s not a phys ranged…wouldn’t want those Poets to think they’re anything other than mega archers delivering death and destruction.

If removing the ‘increases damage dealt by %’ or ‘reduces damage taken’ from most dps (who don’t even need them) and focusing them on phys ranged (to give it an actual unique contribution) is going to invalidate healers then the game has far, far, far, faaaar bigger issues than role responsibility.

As for the last part, MCH balanced against SAM/BLM is absolutely hilarious. That totally won’t invalidate casters or melee, but if we give phys ranged support the poor healers won’t be able to do their utility skills that they barely have anyway!!!! Either it’s below other dps and literally inferior or they make it equal/surpassing and it literally breaks game balance. There is literally no way for them to make phys ranged ‘equal dps to other roles’ without completely breaking the role system. Again, they tried already at 2.0 release , 4X Bard stacks were not appreciated by Yoshi-P. Pretty sure they would rather delete the phys ranged role than have a repeat of that, so somehow I don’t see any of the role ever getting higher in the dps ranks.

Increasing phys ranged dps output drastically enough to move their ranking is effectively impossible for them to ever do, so basically their choices are either to develop the role into having a unique niche (i.e party support) and adjust other jobs/roles as necessary…or just leave it as a worthless role and delete phys ranged or something. Boosting their dps will solve absolutely nothing except bringing every non-phys ranged to the forums to scream and wail about why the two ‘easy mode support jobs’ are doing the same dps as all the other pure damage classes. Unless they had their entire support kit gutted and deleted and retooled the entire role into pure dps that is, which again I’m pretty sure most phys ranged players are hinting towards anyway…..