Thread: 5.08 Patch - DPS still not balanced.

Originally Posted by Jonnycbad

Range deserve a DPS tax because:

1) Unlike melee, they can have sustained 100% uptime while still handling mechanics (melee have to move out of range (e.g. Temporary Current, or other point-blank AoEs, costing them occasional partial losses of GCDs and Auto-attacks). Melee also have to content with positionals and losing partial amounts of potency when mechanics force them to certain sides of the boss. True North helps, but for certain fights it simply isn't available enough to prevent missing positionals. Ranged on the other hand can hit from any angle.

2) Unlike casters, ranged do not have to cast spells and can DPS on the fly while running, dodging, etc. Casters sometimes have to interrupt a cast to move out of the way, and since casters don't have auto-attacks, it's lost DPS.

Therefore since Ranged do not have any real moments where they are disengaged, they should have overall the lowest damage potential of the 3 DPS subtypes.

I'm a caster. And while as a RDM I do envy range for their mobility for instance on E3S (see the logs it hits RDM hard that fight), what Telos said is right : if even with that mobility taken into account, a BLM or a melee is still 1k5 above you in rDPS (so also accounting for raid buffs), why take you ?

At similar skill level, if a BLM can die twice in a fight (not consecutive though) and STILL output a better number than a RDM or a DNC not dying, something is fundamentally wrong balance wise. Cause rDPS takes everything into account. I t means either BLM is too strong (but nerfs are rarely welcomed so not gonna happen), or the mobility tax / the raise tax is way too strong on others.

I play my BLM worse than my RDM but starting E3S I'm considering using it to help with enrage cause I feel like a burden for my team as RDM DPS wise. Already started a bit on E2S.
If we need that 1k rDPS more I'll probably need to.