Archers Rejoce!:We Survived

[AceofRains]

I've taken the liberty of breaking down the class revisions chart into layman's terms. As you can see, some abilities didn't make the cut, but for the most part the revisions aren't as big as the other classes. This is only so people can get a better grasp on what to expect out of the class, as the chart takes a bit of deciphering to put name to face.

-There are several notes saying if an ability has been revised or completely new to the class.
-/ <---- everything after this indicates the effects of a combo.

ARC

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Ability 1-Hawkeye
Ability 2-Quelling Strike+increase TP (Revised)
Ability 3-Decoy
Ability 4-Chameleon
Ability 5-Multishot
Ability 6-Foeseeker

Magic 1-Quickstride(ga) (Revised)

Weapon Skill 1-Puncture (Possibly not Puncture)
->Weapon Skill 2-Aim: Leg (Heavy)/Increase heavy duration (NEW!)
-->Weapon Skill 3-Wide Volley/Increase Accuracy
Weapon Skill 4-Quick Nock/5x Attack (Revised?)
Weapon Skill 5-Shrieker (Possibly not Shrieker)
->Weapon Skill 6-Ranged attack/Aim: Eye (NEW!)
-->Weapon Skill 7-Bloodletter/Damage When DoT fades
Wps 8-Shadow Bind/Increased Duration of Bind

BRD

Ability 1-Prolong Life + Spellbound (NEW!)

(ARC Weapon Skill 4)
->Wps 1-AoE/Stun (NEW!)

Magic 1-Mages Ballad (NEW!)
Magic 2-TP Regen (NEW!)
Magic 3-Phy + Mag Acc boost (NEW!)

Please correct me on any mistakes, and enjoy the information! In the event that the class is further revised, this list will be revised too.

[Yonnji]

Rejoice turning ranged DD into an MP/TP bitch for your party? I think not.

[KRose]

Rejoice turning ranged DD into an MP/TP bitch for your party? I think not.

We don't even know how this situation works yet. If the buff takes 5ish seconds to go off and lasts for 5ish minutes, you should be more than able to deal damage before you even have to worry about reapplying buffs. Corsair was capable of doing this on XI. I hardly doubt they'd implement it in a way where they expect you to run around buffing your party every couple seconds, completely negating the DD revisions they're implementing for the class.

[Spider-Dan]

I have a slightly different opinion on the abilities.

Ability 1-Still Precision (Revised) (notice that the description is "Increases accuracy" and not "Increases accuracy of next attack")
Ability 2-Quelling Strike+increase TP
Ability 3-Decoy
Ability 4-Chameleon
Ability 5-Trifurcate (small difference, but Multishot can stack with itself; this ability does not indicate so)
Ability 6-Raging Strike (Revised) (note that this is not a WS, but an attack buff)

Magic 1- Chocobo Mazurka (Quickstride did not fade upon sustaining damage)

Weapon Skill 1- Shrieker (basically, a single-target single-hit WS with no additional effects; Puncture is not single-target)
->Weapon Skill 2- Trammel

I agree with the rest of your assessment, though.

[JudgeN]

We can rejoice once we find out that out damage has been adjusted to not be pure shit.

[Imagene]

Yeah. I've sit out of Ifrit Runs because i rather play archer than a lancer. Hopefully with the new class reforms, we're able to be useful at least in parties. Because although everyone would probably want a Bard in their party, Bard is not till 1.21 which is a long long way away.

Pray that archers become decent DDs again once 1.20 is released. It would seem from the notes that we have gained significant aoe damage?

(Also the concept write up that archers are capable of dealing burst of damage hopefully means that we're able to do some spike damage at least.)