Quote Originally Posted by Lersayil View Post
Point is though, melee and caster have to work for that uptime (or have tactics built around them).

I would argue that ranged has a lower skill ceiling, and can deal with some mechanics in a way that would cause a melee to lose uptime.

I guess its arguable how much of a dps difference those things are worth though.
I think the problem is that a mediocre melee DPS or caster would still perform just as "well" as a ranged DPS, and an exceptional melee and caster would skyrocket ahead.
Meanwhile a mediocre ranged dps is near useless, and an exceptional one is still in the same realm of a Brink of Death dragoon. When what you do is no better than having a DPS with a weakness debuff, there's trouble.

The fact the gap in optimal ranged dps damage and optimal healer dps damage sometimes is 3k overall DPS says a lot. It's not even that much of a surprise to see a Warrior higher than DNC and BRD for a good 2 minutes of a fight when it comes to damage.
Yes, ranged DPS have the mobility and the "utility" (which is arguable since all melee but sam also have huge utility tools), but when it comes to BRD and DNC a huge part of your damage potential is also tied to how lucky you get with procs, there's no other way around it. So not only your "utility" isn't that much of a deal to justify things, but you also have to deal with everything beind a proc that makes your overall damage variable.

As it stands right now, DNC is just a technical step bot and BRD is a meme.