Quote Originally Posted by Fantasia View Post
I think this is a bit of an unfair summary. I mained BRD and with the right gear it was stupidly powerful. Even if it wasn't, ranged classes shouldn't be as powerful as their melee counterparts, solely for the fact that they're usually out of range of 90% of attacks. They exception obviously being BLM, but they have MP to make their output fairly limited.

Besides, in other FFs, a Ranger's weapon of choice is a crossbow, so there's still room for a more DD ranged-class out there.
Well then they will never add Ranger or any other ranged DPS if it should never be compareable to melee dps. Ranger in XI wasn't a weak job at all and was majorly perferred over the melee ones. Its also saying they should greatly reduce black mages damage output to be below melees because they can attack from afar.