Please allow melee Ranged Attacks to not interrupt/break combos!

[Ultimatecalibur]

Dragoon's rotation continuously loops, thus they will always suffer a break under the current system or your hypothetical "solution."

No break if you have it setup like this:

1. Piercing Talon - 15y range, 150 potency
2. Ranged combo extender - 15y range, 210 potency extends Disembowel for 10s
3. Ranged combo finisher - 15y range, 270 potency extends Chaos Thrust for 10s, grants Enhanced Wheeling Thrust if under the effect of Blood of the Dragon or Life of the Dragon

With it set up like this the Dragoon can disengage at the start of either combo, perform the ranged combo 1 or more time and then jump back into melee to Wheeling Thrust-> Fang and Claw -> Raiden Thrust into either combo.

Samurai is slightly trickier as the combo would need to be semi-smart about which Sen it would grant.

Of course it's greed related. But no other job suffers this problem. All three Casters even deal higher damage than the Melee, Samurai notwithstanding, despite having no worries of disengagement or combo breaks. A Black Mage can mitigate their lost casts through Triple Cast, Swiftcast, Xenoglossy and stored Firestarter or Thunder procs; Red Mage has Dual and Swiftcast, and Summoner outright giggles at the mention of "downtime." Melee all lack this option.

All 4 Tanks suffer from it as well and it comes up more often for them as they may need to reposition bosses or move further from the boss to do mechanics (such as Flares). The two main options that the tanks have when repositioning are "stutter stepping" (moving slightly between melee gcds) and spamming their ranged action that does not generate any resources. The Paladin (just like the Ninja with TCJ) has the ability to somewhat mitigate that with their Holy Spirit burst, but it is only for ~5 gcds and sometimes you need to be 15y away for more gcds than that.

3-step range combos were an idea I came up with to deal with tank disengagement problems first because it actually sucks a lot more to spend 3+ gcds 15y away from the boss and not being able to generate MP/Blood/Beast Gauge/Cartridges.

If the whole combo is going to be consolidated into a single button. What's even the point of designing say, two new animations you'll almost never see? This is both entirely unnecessary and needlessly convoluted when simply buffing the range abilities ( while giving Monk one) and making them not break your combo fixes the problem without issue.

The main reason is so that the maintenance effects are not frontloaded and could not potential become better at generating gauge/extending buffs/DoTs than the melee combos. The problem isn't just that they interrupt combos it is that they tend to also desync every other part of the rotation from the party buffs as resources would still get delayed even without combo interruption.