Quote Originally Posted by Red_Wolf View Post
These were all issues in Secure, but mostly casters dealt with them (and this is probably why there is a learning curve right now).

I gave some tips in my first reply to this thread. Work with your healer and not against them. Learn to flank. Learn to retreat when focused. Follow your tanks.
There is a learning curve as a melee, true, you do have to plan your moves, pay attention, and use good judgement quite a bit in slaughter, yes, but, compare that to playing a ranged. All you do is pick a target and shoot. When enemies start getting close, you shoot them instead, then pull back to the safety of your group and continue shooting. It's so painfully easy playing something like a summoner as opposed to playing something like a dragoon. I've tried both, and the differences are far too massive to consider it balanced and 'okay'.