Phys.Ranged still not getting buffed.

[ForteNightshade]

Oh really? P8s would like to have a word with you then.

Also just because this was never the case doesn't mean, in the future this will not be the case. Obviously the change was done for future fights and not present/ past ones.

When? As a tank, I only lost one GCD in the entire first phase. And that's because strats were based around catering to melee player uptime and comfort. I can't remember a single part of phase 2 that had any downtime.

A much better example would have been E8S which the infamous "Ilya Strat" caused several GCD losses, as did Darklit. This was enough to finally push Dragoon out of the meta for the first time since Heavensward. Guess what? It still thoroughly trounced the Prange despite being hindered quite a bit. Nowadays, I could miss a combination of ten positionals/GCDs and still easily out damage a top tier Prange. There is simply zero justification for how comically weak they are. Even less so for Machinist, the supposedly "selfish" equivalent that can't even keep up with Bard and Dancer.

The fact they specifically mention wanting to "achieve better balance in Ultimate raids" is downright laughable. UCoB and UwU are complete shells of themselves nowadays. TEA only kind of holds up, but barely. DSR and TOP are still mechanically challenging, but any sort of DPS checks have long since died off. FRU will follow suit only a patch later, especially when you consider its DPS checks were already very lenient outside Pandora. For some reason, SE seems to blindly think melee live in some endless nightmare where they're fighting for their lives to maintain uptime. There's not a single fight where the Prange get to shine for anything unique to them. They only exist because of an arbitrary party buff the devs force because otherwise the entire role just dies.