Of note: All caster classes have proficiency with crossbows.
I don't want to be inquisitive; I already have two ranged characters. With my casters, I want to be a caster.
And it seems the devs don't realize that casters don't have universal crowd control or universal IKs. So if they put in a raid full of constructs, undead, or other difficult to control/IK with spells mobs, we're screwed.
Look, devs, since you've given weapon users universal crowd control and some IKs that work on everything, how about giving us back the spells you stole from us? My wizard would be less useless against constructs if you had given me Baleful Polemorph (Turn Frog/Mass Frog in DDO) instead of stealing the spell from our lists. For example. You've stolen so many spells... including Weird, Tentacles, Time Stop, Scillating Pattern... I'm fed up, very tired, that you expect all casters to be at tier 5 magus to have minimal utility in raids by empowering the true heroes, the weapon users, when time stop should be a level 9 spell for wizards and sorc. You know, if you had given us the variety of spells we should have instead of just handing them out to everyone, if our debuff spells actually worked, instead of giving them to weapons, casters would be much more useful.
But you didn't do that. So, devs, can you tell me what role you see for us casters in this raid? And keep in mind that a weapon user class is perfectly interchangeable with another weapon user class because their DPS is universal. But we casters have very restricted spells. Maybe the alchemist can do something here, but the rest of us casters... we don't have the right spells. Thanks, devs, for not only stealing the spells we need, but for making raids where we're useless because your design isn't inclusive. You know, we're thrilled that in a situation where we're being excluded for being useless, you've created a raid where we're even more useless. Brilliant.
And by the way, if you think removing the boss's RD with light damage favors the appearance of casters, no, it doesn't. Weapon users also have light damage with a simple augment (and even more so if they're ranged on Shiradi), making them much more efficient than divine casters in this situation. And yes, I say divine casters. Because neither arcane nor primal casters have significant light damage in their spell lists. Ah. What is the role of casters in this raid, please, devs?
