ARC Auto-attack = Ranged attack..

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Have you played Lancer in the Ifrit fight? Doomspike has a long animation lock, much much longer than a light shot.
Any class is viable in the fight, it's all a matter of the player learning to hold back on using that next action.
The fight is about survival, not DPS zerging.

Yeah...the difference is one is a damaging WS where you expend your TP... the other is how you actually get your TP.

If archer has to worry about even trying to build their TP instead of just when to use their WS what is the point in taking them? I'd like to use a light strike to get some TP for a WS but the enemy might wreak me