From Meleewalker to Meleetrail

[Shurrikhan]

^i think that they need to fix this by actually going back to magic and phys ranged being distinct, not throwing them together into “ranged” and then balancing all ranged against the melees

They could, but at that point, what excuse do they have for not again making Maiming the more bursty Melee, Striking the more sustained Melee, Scouting the bursty and high-utility but with even lower sustain Melee, etc.?

Honestly, it kinda feels like the biggest problem was half-assing Scouting Melee in order not to piss off the Ranged classes that already had more choices at the time (3 vs. Melees' 2), or never developing a third sub-role of Ranged and then opening up the Gear Classes to increase available crossover and fine-tuning ("customization" if any of it in this game [still] actually had permissible gameplay impact).

There's no reason why DEX and INT shouldn't be at least partly relevant to, say, MNK and SAM, STR and INT to NIN, INT and MND to BRD, DEX and MND to RDM, etc.