Quote Originally Posted by Xieldras View Post
That's really what it comes down to doesn't it? Everyone has support options now that are equal or greater than the "Support" role, even if their damage is good. The support rDPS offers isn't even that unique to them anymore because another role has a variation of it (which is typically a 45/90/120s buff or 10% debuff).

But the devs haven't taken the time to properly adjust the numbers with the same philosophy they reserve for this role, so we're the only ones to suffer.
It doesn't even concern rphys exclusively, fact of the matter is that every role has started bleeding over into the other roles identities over time, and one of the big current hot debates is healers vs tanks on healing tools. When it comes to rphys, it leaves us without identity combined with the loss of resource management gameplay, but that's nothing unique although I do agree that's a problem of homogenization of roles (on top of job homogenization).

Here in the case of the ranged tax it's more a problem of balance regarding job constraints I feel, which is outdated and flawed to the core in my opinion.