Pictomancer is not the issue.

[Azurarok]

You two have absolutely no idea why ranged tax is a thing lol
It has nothing to do with survivability

It has everything to do with the fact that in Stormblood there was an rphys meta because rphys did similar damage to melees (on top of having insane synergy with piercing debuff) and had none of the drawbacks when it came to freedom of movement for mechanics.

SE is terrified of that happening again and thus rphys just do garbage damage forever now.

Meanwhile whenever melees have to disengage from the boss for more than a GCD they throw a fit over it and are given some kind of adjustment for it in the next patch

[mallleable]

Meanwhile whenever melees have to disengage from the boss for more than a GCD they throw a fit over it and are given some kind of adjustment for it in the next patch

And they overcorrected in Endnwalker with astronomically sized hitboxes, but they have absolutely changed course in Dawntrail. Melee uptime feels a lot more fair in Dawntrail. And yet Phys ranged still feels like a useless role.