Thread: 5.08 Patch - DPS still not balanced.

Originally Posted by Vendalwind

Couple simple reasons.

1st fight design. Ranged physical can fill amy role, but the game definately began with 2 melee 2 ranged as the ideal comp, this is particularily evident when you look at diagrams from before release.

2nd was how the game was originally intended. (MNK, DRG, BRD BLM) SMN and NIN were released later.

3rd class role distribution. As time went on ranged split into 2 class roles, magical and physical. This was in part because thw ranged role was inflated, and in part because of the distinctive differences that developed post hw casting time wise.

4th again role distribution. Currently there is two tank slots:4 tanks, 2 healer slots:3 healers, 2 melee slots 4 melee. 1 rng phys: 3 ranged and 1rng caster: 3 casters.

This is in part why many people guess that the next big expansion will add another healer and maybe a new melee will follow later (side note my money is on a melee beastmaster hinted by ranjits combat style. Could be totally wrong tho). Currently melee needs the second spot more than either ranged by a small margin of class choice value options.

These points are all silly, this game is vastly different than it once was and, we don’t need to look back at what was to determine how things should be. (Remember casting ranged physical dps) if we go back to HW, majority of that expansion had Caster Dps stronger than any other role until creator came where ranged got over buffed which they didn’t like, than Caster Dps returned to being the strongest role on average for majority of SB with RDM being the outlier until alphascape where it was closer to DRG and SMN and BLM were at the top.

If anything, the past tells me that Casting DPS should in theory be the groups source of full damage but that’s not how balancing works and we can’t look at past metas in a vacuum. 2 range 2 melee was how it was in arr because that’s how many there were at the time. Those jobs were also strong too for their time as well. Limit break also existed and groups valued it a lot then too