Thread: Is Blm gonna be the only accepted range option now? :(

Every job is viable. If a group is forcing people to play jobs they're not good with, I don't see them making it to the end of the first lockout. Cause they will wipe and wipe. And wipe. Get annoyed because they have da Meta. Start shifting blame and arguing and the whole thing will fall apart. Was in a FC that happened. I can't remember the specifics, but someone was forced on DRG and a healer was forced off WHM to AST. And when they wiped, it exploded out of party chat and into the FC. They were the lowest being on jobs they're not familiar with and yeah. Keep playing what you enjoy.

Originally Posted by Heliantheae

Every job is viable. ...
Keep playing what you enjoy.

1971 called: Been there done that
https://youtu.be/1VM2eLhvsSM

Tl;dr, Yes and No. dps wise, there is no reason to take any of the others over 1 BLM with the exception of wanting caster Rez. however, in wanting caster Rez. there comes a reason to take something other than BLM. so basically, early prog is the only place where BLM isn't dominating or in groups who just don't care. Melee and BLM are so much better than everything else, that if it wasn't double BLM, it'd be Triple Melee and BLM before any of the other ranged/casters got a chance

going to actually answer your question besides telling you to play what you want and that everything is viable because while it's true that everything is viable. you're still going to run into instances where PFs omit your slot for no real reason. SAMs got this hard in SB and RDM tends to get it about a month or so once PF gets more experienced and players start caring about their parses but not actually willing to speed kill. your "0 chest fun runs" or "Page runs"

My own group are full FC group, we arent hardcore who race to be first clear
but then if I am doing it with pug or random players, I would want as much DPS as possible, more DPS->less fight time->less mechanic->less chance anyone make mistake->less chance of a wipe.
I have seen some group exclude specific job, i have see multiple group specifically "No RDM" in first week
Meta will always be there, is how much the gap between the top job and lower one, big enough to exclude lowest job or small enough most players wont even care

Originally Posted by xxvaynxx

Actually. You need to have a physical ranged to get the full 5% .
MCH DPS is fine honestly. I was in a es2 and the mch
Was only 1k behind me.
The better question is, will blm be the only accepted magical range?
Because I haven't seen any rdm in Savage and hardly smn.
Only BLM.

This isn't true. This is what it says in the 5.0 patch notes

"Players will now receive a 1% increase to strength, vitality, dexterity, mind, and intelligence for each unique role in their party, up to a maximum of 5%". This means you'll get a 1% buff to all of these stats by having 1 of each up to 5 to times and the current meta seems to be deciding on 4% and an extra BLM/melee dps do to the inherent disparity

1% of a party doing 80k is 800 rdps that can be attributed to each role so ranged would be their base rdps plus 800. the problem is this 800 dps plus their base is still lower than what BLM and melee are capable of and thats why we're here