So...is the Ranged Role gone? Are we in a Reverse HW?

[ForteNightshade]

Tbh I think option 2 would be way easier and interesting to implement. You'd just need a couple of mechanics per fight with forced downtime for the melee and a lot of movement. Option 3 would require to rework ranged dps rotations, because currently there's literally nothing in their rotation to differentiate between skilled and mediocre players (this is particularly true for MCH).

How would that be easier than simply increasing the Range's damage? Take what they have now and throw 500-800 more rDPS on them. Bam, you're pretty much done. There is nothing interesting about mechanics that force downtime for melee or tanks. Lemme tell you, Hello, World 2 without uptime strats was not fun. I got to sit on a marker and do absolutely nothing—to the point I was legit happy whenever we wiped on those pulls. Titan is similar but for tanks. Things like the second mini-boss in Copied Factory or even E1S where you can potentially mitigate the GCD loss if you time it just right are fun. But just being forced to disengage for x amount of time unless people catering a strat specifically around you, isn't.

I also don't like it because I essentially have to make things harder on my group if I want to parse well. At least in certain fights where the uptime strats are either riskier or involve taking more damage.

[MPNZ]

Okay, I already like commented on like a change that would help RPDPS, but I need to like answer the topic because this totally bugs me.

No the role is not gone but being able to keep a distance by playing keep away is definitely much more limited than before, and is definitely not like a reverse HW. Everything was just stripped down to the necessary and made hyper-consistent to like a detriment in several cases, and like the usual number of jobs left totally messed-up like AST and some jobs becoming totallly op because of their simple design (BLM, WHM, PLD) or just by being WAR

[Mordraug]

I still think that BRD needs a third DoT, the extra procs would really go toward fixing that dps gap.

[HyperiusUltima]

I still think that BRD needs a third DoT, the extra procs would really go toward fixing that dps gap.

The problem that caused BRD to be in the spot it is in now is because they nerfed the DoT potencies too much because they gave BRD back its songs(because of its lore in particular, if you want to get specific). If they brought those potencies back up to what they used to be BRD would be in a better spot.