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

[BarretOblivion]

My Bard is still very viable. People are freaking out too much. Our dps isn't that bad...it's still pretty much on par with where it's always been. In fact I think I crit a bit more than I used to. Also a Red Mage still does pretty good damage. It might not seem like it if you compare it to the damage a Monk does in a Raid but I can't solo lv. 70 dungeons on a freaking Monk the way I can a Red Mage. It's not all about Raid DPS. A lot of jobs bring different things to the table. If all you care about is pure dps then might as well run everyhting with nothing but Monks. People are also gearing up now so it's not near as big of a deal.

It is about raid dps though. No one cares about dungeons. Again, the point of the entire topic is that once RDM/SMN get the buffs they need then we got a slippery slope issue with physical ranged. All physical ranged are significantly behind BLM, without changes physical ranges will be pushed out in favor of casters or 3 melee. The bonus 1% means nothing if the job you pull in is behind almost 2k dps. This is also a result of the loss of refresh from ranged DPS. In SB it was basically mandatory you had at least one ranged for refresh to keep healers MP healthy if they were DPSing properly. Sure, we ran into an issue where physical ranged had too much utility resulting in double stacking physical ranged because raid buffs were more powerful than a class that could utilize buff to their best. Not only that but all physical ranged DPS got nerfed further than just losing refresh/pallisade. BRD lost thier 2% passive crit buff and foe's requim. MCH lost hyperdrive and dismantle. In the end neither BRD nor MCH got a dps buff to compensate and DNC was released baised off of ranged physicals. Either reintroduce BRD/MCH old raid utility and buff DNC personal damage or buff all physical ranged DPS to be close to casters. (MCH should deal as much as SMN or even slightly more)