The Failure of the ranged Physical balancing

[Darian]

The topic keeps showing up because SE wants ranged physical to be the support role but as others have said the tools to fit said role are lacking for BRD and MCH.
IMO. BRD needs Nature's Minne @60 second recast, rework The Warden's Paean into some kind of single target dps buff with timers adjusted of course and MAYBE up songs.
With MCH they need to decide what this job is supposed to be. If it's meant to be selfish with 0 utility (Let's be honest, no one is looking at Tactician as a make or break Ability) then it better bring 3rd/4th place dps or else the community will continue to look at MCH as the ranged role buff which is terrible design because it's fighting for the same role slot with jobs that actually bring utility. If they want to keep MCH as the highest physical ranged only then it really needs some DPS utility back.

I would stay away from adding cast times again... The community hated that time so much that these forums were full of multiple 100 page post raging about it and how it ruined bard. Plus, they would have to rework all the ranged physical skills to match the new style and it would just turn into ranged physical having too much utility for the higher dps.