increase ranged and caster attack damage and attack speed
Facts. It's just how reality works.
Melees in this game are just bads who suck at street fighter and tekken. I have an entire guild of them. They have been gifted way too much fantasy by the devs while always crying about ranged on a daily basis.
We only ever even got a chance to flourish and live as a species when one smart human (like me) found a rock and convinced 19 other lesser gifted individuals ( the melees) to also pick up a rock and throw it at 12 foot, one thousand pound, man-eating jungle cats. The stupid humans with melee weapons were dying left and right because they're stupid, until my ancestor came along and gave them the gift of the throwing weapon.
Take Sparta for instance, considered by many the greatest heavy infantry units of all time. You know how and why they lost? They couldn't adapt to the ever increasing firepower and strategy of ranged weapons like the siege and bow. Imagine attacking castles and forts without a siege. That is what the dumb melees were doing. Athens started using ranged and then wiped the floor with them eventually because melees are stupid.
The hundred years war? English longbow into a stupid cavalry charge eliminated entire platoons of dumb melees. It was so effective that France started doing it and won the war.
The samurais? LOL. A line of muskets wiped out their stupid melee charge and changed Japan forever.
Starting at World War 2 we had mounted machine guns firing 50 caliber ammunition at hundreds of rounds per minute. No one ever melee'd again because you would have to be stupid.
Fast forward to today and we have guns firing six thousand rounds per minute of caliber almost 3 times the size of a 50 caliber. What is an axe going to do against that? Go ahead and dual wield yourself into swiss cheese fighting against ranged with your two weapon fighting BS.
We're working on lasers now by the way. Melee players in shambles.
Now devs go and introduce machine guns in ddo so we can rid ourselves of the last few wish-i-were-good-at-street-fighter players crying about how ranged shouldn't do more damage than melees.
The fact that the highest dps build in this game is cat using its fingernails is a travesty. Gary Gyxax rolling in his grave right now. Casters are a whole other thing. They're casting meteors and comets from orbit. Earthquakes and tsunamis. Natural disasters should deal way way more damage than a few dozen dice.
