They forgot Ranged Physical is a role in the game

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This whole "Ranged Tax" and "Utility Tax" is outdated and has no place in current day FF14.

At most the gap between Melee and Ranged should be < 5%.


Melee's in particular no longer need to fight for uptime or positionals, boss hitboxes and mechanics are designed specifically with melee uptime in mind.


We don't live in the Doma castle days anymore where bosses have miniscule hitboxes (looking at you last boss in Doma) and mechanics actually forcing you away from bosses.


As for the "no reason to play melee if ranged do similar damage" nonsense that melee players keep spewing - Melee is one of the most fun to play and lowest responsibility roles in higher end content.

Also most strategies are made around the premise of a group having 2 melee and 2 ranged. Melee will still be played even if Phys and Casters are within 5% of them.


No sane melee player will ever give up their Viper or Dragoon to go be someone elses bitch on Dancer.