Thread: Ranged in 5.1

Originally Posted by Crit

It's pretty sad how range are in Frontlines, they're honestly just free food for enemy melees to dive to and one shot then disengage all happy with 10 extra battle high gauge then said melee just snowballs for the rest of the match with rinse and repeating one shotting range in feint+burst window until max high. Atleast that's how you do 1.5 mil dmg as drg, feint dsight life surge 1600 pot gcd stardiver nastrond gcd high jump smite elusive out and bolt away ezclap fun balanced gamemode haha

I really don't think ranged are in a bad situation in FL overall and I really don't think playing melee is anywhere near as free as you make it sound. When I play WAR I'll gladly eat up all the defensive CDs and getaways melee think they can use when they make a reckless play. These tools, especially the absolutely magnificent Elusive Jump, do allow us to to make plays, but it is more opportunistic in general. Range damage is massively important because they are always doing damage, while melee is situational. Ranged is the role where I am more interested in how much damage people have on the score sheet at the end, as ranged are integral in wearing down the enemy potions and healer CDs allowing us to get through the enemy frontline and onto those squishy targets tucked away.

With regards to balance I do think the +15% damage bonus on melee is a bit unnecessary and I do think NIN should be brought down a bit while MNK and SAM are given some better tools to keep up in a greater range of scenarios. Like it's really weird MNK, the purest of melee, has no tools to get out of a situation while DRG, the job with an amazing engage game and a huge pool of midrange options, gets to just cancel Holmgang if we feel inconvenienced. We have some balance problems within the ranged classification, too; IMO BLM and DNC are superior to the others, sometimes grossly so with DNC basically having all the advantages of MCH but with more utility and mobility.