As someone who played MCH when I played ranged in raids if I someone wanted to swap off with me, it's sad to see the current state of ranged as a whole.

There's nothing that defines phys ranged other than having infinite uptime with mobility, mobility that never gets used.....since O11S. The only reason to even bring ranged is for the bonus and LB purposes. Their damage doesn't justify them past those things so in the end, it's just forced by proxy.

They all have one mitigation tool and DNC and BRD has to fight over who's the better group buffer while MCH is rotting in the corner because it barely does more dmg than a NIN and is now worse than DNC and BRD, being the weakest DPS with zero utility. It's ping-dependent with a busy burst window for dmg less than the others.

I do like that it's supposed to be the selfish dps of the ranged but even then. Why bring MCH when you get group buffs with DNC that's easier to play, and worse damage than BRD who also has group buffs.

And buffing it up to SAM and BLM levels for being selfish only exacerbates the issue of the parity between ranged and every other dps role.

Ranged is taxed for this mobility which hasn't mattered since two expansions ago and ease of play when only DNC is the most braindead to play. BRD and MCH require you to focus with the latter punishing you for bad latency.

lk what they could do, getting rid of role/job synergy is literally what buried phys ranged. They all have the baseline mitigation and mobility and that's all that defines phys. ranged now. Losing enmity control, group MP management, has done nothing but show that without real meaningful utility, ranged is really nothing but walking peashooters.

NIN is going through the same thing as well. Losing enmity control and a crippled Trick Attack has left the job in a weak spot where it's only utility is a weak raid buff that is trampled by RPR, DRG, MNK who do more dmg and has raid buffs.

Deleting utility from jobs and spreading them out as a baseline has destroyed but niche these jobs have and has created this meta of who out of the buffers brings more dmg because the baseline is met so all that's left is their rDPS.