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

[HyoMinPark]

Just look TEA as an example, when peoples saw that most of the fight had double target, the first thing that became known was "you're throwing the run if you don't have a bard in your team. You need the double dot".
Just with this fight alone, bard went from bottom rdps class (so one that by following your logic nobody would want) to one of the most wanted class for the current high end content. And with the next Ifrit/Garuda fight you can bet that it will be exactly the same.

The TEA example is actually not quite accurate. While BRD is very strong in Living Liquid and Brute Justice/Cruise Chaser, its potency and overall contribution drops after those two phases. Enough that it isn’t even the best physical ranged choice when one considers the entire fight. DNC is actually the highest performing of the three, with BRD being second, and MCH being last. You wouldn’t throw a TEA run simply because you don’t have a BRD in your group.

You're having me think : maybe they do plan in Verse fights so heavy on mechanics and movement it will bring melee and casters down by 1000 rDPS (and so on par with range).

Hence the absence of change on ranged's DPS. Cause yeah they're in the gutter for the first tier (1000-1500 behind)

I doubt that. It’s more likely that they stubbornly don’t see the physical ranged as an issue in terms of potency even though all three could stand to have a slight buff. The developers have long made it known that they don’t care about damage potential and potency to the extent the playerbase does.

They also just buffed all three in 5.1. I wasn’t expecting them to buff them again in 5.2. It’s likely that they want to see how the role fairs in Eden’s Verse before considering adjustments. I’m sort of on the fence about it, because, on one hand, I can see where the role needs some TLC; on the other, I don’t want panic buffs to happen, and for us to see the role become broken (hello, late HW).