Turin wrote:
I consistently get less than five minutes on my DRG. I also consistently get fifteen minutes plus on my BRD. Let's stop pretending this is a problem from all DPS, it's a problem for ranged DPS. There are entirely too many people playing ranged jobs and if you want to play on one, you get to wait. No adjustment is going to change that. I like my BRD and I like the the change of pace while playing it instead of DRG, but it's pretty much easy mode. Once you've learned a particular fight, you barely have to pay attention. That's probably why it's so popular.
WoW has had similar problems, and sadly Blizz decided to take the lazy way out to "fix" it for all but one class.
FFXIV and WoW both decided that Melee should be much more punishing than Ranged combat in any challenging content: most of what the bosses do punish melee far more heavily than they do ranged. There's really no upsides to even being melee in any grouped content, outside of any DPS imbalances (I hear MNKs are top? Not sure). Solo, you might be more survivable, but that isn't going to matter in group content when you have healers keeping you alive as long as you've got at least 3 functioning brain cells and can dodge the occasional thing on the ground thrown your way.
Meanwhile, melee are dealing with constant stuff the boss does that affects the areas near it: cone attacks, they are
forced to hit the boss in the back, even though the boss is frequently changing directions because of the tank having to stay out of cone AoE, etc etc etc.
Blizz took the lazy way out: They are about to remove most of "Cast on the Move" spells from all Ranged Classes except one (Hunter). That's the only way they can think of, to make Ranged "challenging", to make them stand still to do anything? lol.
What I'd like to see, is for them to make Ranged and Melee more equal: lessen the ridiculous punishments for melee (must melee from behind, fewer mechanics melee have to deal with) and make ranged a bit more challenging to bring it in line with melee (do things like have more things for ranged to dodge).