Thread: 5.08 Patch - DPS still not balanced.

Originally Posted by Vendalwind

Akuido you are taking opinions way to seriously. Your statements dont disprove any of ours. They are just a different perspective.

Heres an additional one. If range could do as much dps as melee why take melee? Why not have the whole team run physical ranged so everyone could mechanic dance however they want?

Again to me the answer lies in the fact that playing a melee is more difficult, albeit slightly, because you are dealing with positionals and mechanics interrupting your rotation, thus having to improvise to make the best of specific moments in fight sequences.

Casters have a similar difficulty cause mwchanics directly interrupt/alter their rotations.

Without incentive to play melee or caster(ie higher dps) they will become underplayed. And with melee: gear is a very concerning part. A melee savant needs 3 sets of gear to play his 4 classes. Casters and ranged have 1 each. This means job flexibility in those roles is slightly higher.

Tbh mechanics less so this current savage tier, but these things are generally true and enable the developers to create more interesting fight mechanics with that in mind.

And to finish ill say it again. Most of the above statements are perspective opinions. Please dont try to combat them as if they are facts like you've done to my comments in the past. Feel free to provide your own perspectives but trying to combat opinion, Is literally pointless.

BLM BiS is far away from SMN and RDM BiS.

Originally Posted by Katie_Kitty

Don't disagree with anything you said except part of this right here. Casters, especially as a Red Mage player, are frequently asked and expected to do many of the same mechanics that they ask of physical ranged. The only caster who ever gets excluded from that is black mage. "for the melees and black mage" would be a more accurate statement.

this! Lol was afk in PF for a weekly E4s clear and was reading the chat argument, about how the fight was hard on BLM cause of the movement but RDM and SMN completely excel, and I’m just like that’s not even remotely true, because we have ruin 2 doesn’t make us a mobile machine and because RDM has a gap closer and jump back doesn’t make it a mobile machine either. I don’t understand the preferential treatment for casters that are only BLM but the rest of us are just a BRD clone.