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

[ForteNightshade]

If you just buff potencies, you raise dps across the board and you're not giving anything to reward good play. You're rewarding mediocre players as well, which defeats the whole purpose.

You're also punishing melee players which has the adverse effect of making the role less desirable as a whole. If the mechanics were bad enough to see a noticeable decline in damage or simply were just irritating, you'd begin seeing them locked out. So now it's double Casters dominating and we're back to where we started.

Buffing the Range is simply balancing the jobs across the board. You aren't rewarding mediocre players but simply bringing three jobs up so they do closer damage to the remaining seven.