Quote Originally Posted by Collin_Sky View Post
You two have absolutely no idea why ranged tax is a thing lol
It has nothing to do with survivability

It has everything to do with the fact that in Stormblood there was an rphys meta because rphys did similar damage to melees (on top of having insane synergy with piercing debuff) and had none of the drawbacks when it came to freedom of movement for mechanics.

SE is terrified of that happening again and thus rphys just do garbage damage forever now.
Meanwhile whenever melees have to disengage from the boss for more than a GCD they throw a fit over it and are given some kind of adjustment for it in the next patch