Is it worth it to be ranged?

[Radacci]

Well it dose not make a difference melee or range for wait times unless your doing wolfs den but in 3 months there be a lot of rouge and ninjas running around so a lot more melee DPS to deal with.
So really just go with what you want but I did 1 of each so I could so in premade party's easy balance.

it will be like SMN/SCH; there was a tsunami of ACN/Carbuncles, but most didnt make it to cap, or stopped after capping.

There's probably more BRD around than melee, cause most melee get hit by everything, and die.
I have a BRD, but dont play it so much now-days, but i haven't really noticed if it has longer que time...and even with melee, it's rarely short.
Ofc all DD are competitive...It's about who plays the job, not the job.