Melee Positional Requirements

[RiceisNice]

Wow did they add rating (+/-) on the scoreboard at the end of the match last patch or have I somehow been missing that for the past 3 or 4 weeks wtf lol? Even without seeing the full name I recognize the MCH on that claws team from Famfrit though he's really good. Anyway auto-attacks don't bridge the gap between melee and ranged cumulative damage dealt because as was said before its unreliable unless the foe is standing in one place for some odd reason.

This is exactly what you want to discourage if we're taking about a melee dps. However, I've seen my fair share of chases where BLMs can manage to do this anyway and still get casts off, and worst off is that they're paired with a WHM so any damage oyu dealt can easily be healed back up because you can't lock down the WHM without stuns. Of course that's a seperate issue, but that aside, my point is while it's not going to bridge the two jobs on a typical scenario, it's that melee shouldn't get free positional bonuses because of that. It's not a perfect scenario for them, but you don't nesescarl want to create that perfect scenario (much like giving the casters a 15% hp interrupt, or removing all those LoS walls on top of that).

Even at reduced dmg from distance penalty, ranged reduced dmg on the move is still more than full melee dmg that isnt registering with nearly as much consistency as ranged. However with the new buff to spell interruption rate Im not sure that many brd/mch even take off their turret stances anymore. I dont really think taking off the melee directional requirements is even needed though for drg/mnk, I mean i'll take the buff to my non burst rotations if you wanna give it to me but DRG feels fine as is. Only really NIN can make a case for this but SE already gave em free buffs last update anyway.

I can't necessarily attest to their motile damage outside of oGCDs or burst. Their weaponskills average around 150 potency +30% from WM/GB, compared to a NIN/MNK getting near 20% with faster GCDs, or a DRG having 10% with higher potencies. However, I can say that I don't really ever take off GB anymore, I'd get the same (albeit more reliable) milage by chasing people down feint, unless I used a 5 ammo reload and wanted to get split shot in for a proc (and use GB immediately after).