You tell me. We had a party with 3 DRG for Ifrit and a Bard joined. We lost once because the White Mage sucked, and right after that loss, she told me in /tell that Dragoons have no place in this content. THEY were the reason the party kept losing. I'm not sure how new she is to the game but it seems like she is since lancers WERE all that was wanted way back when it first came out. That means she already has been manipulated by the community that ranged stacks work best.

Thing is, SE isn't making content balanced for all classes. Everything that is done with melees can be done easiest with stacking ranged classes. they need to release content that is also harmful to ranged classes or make some changes to how much damage they can do at range. Something needs to be done. I can understand people like to do content with stacking many ranged classes, but IMO they shouldn't be rewarded for this. Or they should be gimped.