[What is the actual item/mechanic/thing being targeted?]
Elf Melter/Flamethrower
[What would you like specifically changed about it?]
Severe nerfs to these weapons.
[Why do you feel that this change is needed?]
Ranger already has plenty of viable options at mid-long range, and I feel like giving rangers a viable (and often times, very strong) option at close range invalidates melee and makes ranged weapons too well rounded, and creates a bias for players to fully invest in ranged damage because the weapons excel at every range, meaning that magic/melee weapons become obsolete.
[Anything else you would like to note]
I think this damage type has become progressively over-centralized in the meta, and making ranged damage weak at close range wouldn’t make it unviable, it would just put it in line with the other weapons. Melee is poor at long range, Magic is bad at long range as well, let ranger be bad at close range. I see more and more players adopting purely ranged kits, and for good reason because it’s so powerful.