Meleewalker to Meleetrail

[CrystalAurora]

Chiming in on the Viper/Ninja thing, although they can disconnect very easily compared to other melees, there's still Auto Attacks to consider. Swiftscale and Nin's haste decrease the auto attack timer by a significant margin. If a Viper just does triple Uncoiled Fury without being in melee range, they keep their GCD rolling, but they do lose uptime on autos. In that case, the Viper would lose around 400 or 500 potency from the missed autos. It seems small but worth trying to stick to the boss even if you are using UF.

That said, I agree with most other things in this thread. I had to quit RDM when I was doing Anabaseios in PF because I was so tired of underperforming melee doing, like, 2k more DPS than me while I was fighting my heart out. Judging by PCT, it might be the Resurrection keeping RDM and SMN down, but BLM isn't doing so hot right now either.

And Aiming players, rest in peace. They need to do something for that role stat or there will be a huge shortage in Arcadion.

Yes of course but when you are comparing said classes to other jobs in their role who have very low potency ranged attacks and who are also still missing some auto attacks from disengaging the gap between them would only increase the more that the boss forces disengage... not that I actually think that any sort of significant disengage will happen and I am not sure why people are expecting there to be enough to make the ranged tax meaningful.

As far as the Phys Ranged shortage I will say that it was already noticeable in Endwalker and considering they didn't do anything to draw people back into that role I expect it to be the same. Switching to melee last expansion was just funny to see that in a significant portion of the PFs healers would fill quicker than the physical ranged spot in savage.

[W00by]

My point with NIN and VPR was that because their auto attack CD is shorter, they miss more Autos than other jobs would. But they still handle downtime better, yeah.

I'm already feeling the ranged shortage, man. Recruiting for my Savage static, I can find a million and one melees but literally no aiming.