Quote Originally Posted by Taika View Post
I think the developers want to keep the LBs separate because they try to encourage diverse party compositions. The only issue I have with LBs is that the ranged one is really useless - can't remember any other significant fight where we've ever used it than Sephirot ex.
It was sometimes used as an oh-sh** LB when either the caster is down or when you don't have a caster in your group at all (DRG+NIN+MCH+BRD meta). The only advantage I can think of using the ranged LB, is the short animation lock compared to the caster one. But then again, it depends on the encounter and your composition.

As for the OP, I think we could have a system like the role actions, where you pick what kind of LB you can use: Either AoE, conal or single target. You can only pick one from the actions windows and you're locked until the encounter ends (wipe, clear, whatever)