Quote Originally Posted by CKNovel View Post
Are you part of the 5 people not understanding what ranged DPS ask?
You just looked at the title and did not read anything.

Here:
-The gap should exist but it is currently too wide.
They're currently what? 1k dps behind their respective caster/melee? Could probably cut the difference in half and it would be fine. Any closer than that and they'd start locking out other jobs.
-Ranged DPS utility is non-existent compared to all the mitigation that used to exist during SB
Isn't that literally just Palisade? Bring back Palisade. Everything else can stay gone.
-A lot of ranged would welcome back Bowmage/Gunmage just to have our efforts rewarded as the casters.
Then they should just play casters. Those that would welcome back bowmage/gunmage are a minority. Maybe at best you could bring back gunmage but bowmage would absolutely be hated.
-The only reason you need a ranged DPS is because of the 1% bonus stat. Ranged don't have an identity beyond ranged DPS with no cast.
You can reduce every role to such a singular identity though. "Melee have no identity beyond having to be in melee range" "casters have no identity other than having cast times".
We don't ask much from SE and we don't ask much from the community to understand.
If you could at least read a bit about the Ranged DPS complains rather than limiting yourself to the title, that would help a lot.
But reading is hard!