Quote Originally Posted by Blacktestament7 View Post
There are even AoEs made to only hit out of melee range.
Which currently is not a thing for anybody that's not lakshmi. There should be fights where ranged are better than melee. Not every single fight melee absolutely crushes all ranged 100% of the time. That's not called balance. That's called melee players getting their cake and eating it.

The support "clause" is no longer applicable because NIN brings more rDPS than MCH and comparable rDPS to BRD.
The uptime clause doesn't work because melee are less interrupted by not Lakshmi mechanics in every raid than a BLM. And even if they had equal uptime, (which they don't), BLM does LESS damage.

So what does that leave? Fights where melee will always be better, with one slot going to RDM who's the caster least affected by movement but also provides rDPS increases two the three melee meta.