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

[Akiudo]

First and foremost, Machinist can never rival Black Mage and Samurai in damage due to their free mobility. While the "tax" shouldn't be anywhere near as high as it is currently, there still needs to be one otherwise it and the Range as a whole have a distinct advantage over Melee.

not trying to start an argument or saying i disagree, i do somewhat, but i will clarify that after my question, but what do people, be it you or anyone else that wants to chime in feel would be a fair tax ? preferably in current raidtier numbers, thats less abstract.

Reason why i ask is specifically the last part of you i quoted, "otherwise range as a whole have a distinc advantage over melee", because that gets mentioned often, but what is that advantage ? i mean obviously it is "can still deal full damage while running in circles" i get that, but i mean is this : as you yourself said the current tier it wouldn't be that bad, but generally speaking if samurai and mch both simply hit the boss like a training dummy and they are equal than the moment this isn't the case anymore mch (or "the ranged) will allways be better than the melee, that much is true and i will never deny that.

However, lets flip this around, if a semi competent melee can do a fight only losing 200 dps do to movement, and the ranged is 200 dps on a dummy fight below the melee, wouldn't that just reverse the situation that people call "ranged advantage" ? wouldn't their need to be a break even point where in fact the ranged does have the advantage ? Not talking about 99% here because at this point you will basically get the one try where the melee simply didn't have to move even though the mechanic generally exists, or the whole group catered the dealings of mechanics to a single person, but at the 90-95 range, so realistically the top. and yes, you could argue "staying in range" takes skill not expected from a ranged, but at the same time you could argue "doing your rotation perfectly while dealing with a mechanic so all melees can stay still and explicitly not deal with it" takes skill not expected from a melee