Quote Originally Posted by Divinemights View Post
They balanced with a more developed meta in which as fit to the core concept of the Frontline.
Japanese never had issue with Ranges in a team-oriented large scale PvP; in matter of fact, it is often Black Mage becomes a mobile canon.
For us, we are unable to adopt to this meta because of individualism; people cares about individually over team success.
It is pretty easy to see pretty much 90% of ranges you encountered are dong it wrong.
Even until this day, I am still no clue why range would try to fight a meele not only in close range; also an open flat space instead of use terran as advantage.
Most of FFXIV's players come from the NA and EU region, I believe. Even though it's a Japanese game, it's not really feasible to expect NA and EU players to suddenly overhaul their approach to PvP to match the Japanese model. The irony is that it probably could have been possible back in the days where PvP was far more niche and had a small but very committed following.

These days it's mostly full of people just farming wolf marks for glamour and other items. They don't really care about winning since they get experience and wolf marks either way.