Physical Ranged (Also SMN) "Freedom of Movement" Tax

[Galvuu]

There was never a time in Stormblood that I saw any particular role completely getting locked out without it existing. The fact that it does exist should give them more reason to even out the damage a lot more between DPS not less.

Actually, in late HW and early SB, the meta comp actually had no casters. I don't mean "no casters in the flex spot", I mean 0 casters- it was 2 ranged and 2 melee.
Not that it matters to this discussion. HW and SB matter less than ShB and EW, since the design we have in DT is much closer to that. Just an historical remark.

Despite thinking that physical ranged need help and all three could use buffs, I really wonder if some people in this thread every played PCT/BLM.
There's a reason why those two jobs have the highest variance between percentiles out of all jobs by a very wide margin. It's really not so simple as "casters have all these tools and can run around all they want". Most people can't do that at all- hence the huge disparity.
(Funny enough, 3rd and 4th are RDM and... RPR. RDM I understand, since it also has cast bars, but I wonder what's difficult to execute in RPR...)