Can an expansion survive without a DPS?

[Valence]

With Physranged you can at least make the case that they're expected to have full uptime in all fights, but in EW there was no melee downtime in it's fight design, so we never ended up with physranged getting any leverage out of that. But yes, Black mage and Warrior are the developer's favourite precious flowers.

But wait there is more: uptime actually never mattered on result. Melees (and casters) in ShB (and before) were already way above rphys on every chart.

Always has been :gun:

The only thing that uptime mattered for was actual effort.