Icerod
07-15-2011, 10:21 PM
1. Ammo Cost: on my server scorpion arrows are 50k a 12 pack stack and you go through 6-12 stacks per party. this means a barrage with scorpion arrows costs 300 gil. Barrage has a recast time of 5 min. so this is 300 gil every 5 min. This is 12 barrages per hour so cost is 3600 gill per hour just for barrage. Now you add double shot. We are spending close to 20k per hour we play using low damage arrows. Now Demon arrows which are a small step up costs 100k per pack of stacks which then doubles the cost to 40k per hour of play. We cant even use arrows higher then Demon because they cost to much or they are never on the AH.
2.Unlimited Shot: Once we gain access to Double Shot Unlimited Shot becomes useless. This is hard to swallow for many rangers such as myself who stuggled for many years trying not to shoot our special Arrow only to inevitably shoot it and spend a week or two getting enough Conquest points to buy another. Unlimited shot gave us the ability to have one very nice high damage high ACC shot every 3 minutes. This also was great for saving that precious ammo.
Solution: Make Unlimited shot work per shot instead of per arrow. So if we double shoot or even quad shoot we will not use a single arrow for that shot only while unlimited shot is active. Make it stack with barrage this will decrease the ammo we use and allow us to shoot multiple shots and do the damage we desperatly need without costing us an arm and a leg. Make Unlimited shot seperate from double shot this way we can utilize the merits for unlimited shot that we already worked so hard to achieve.
Conclusion: Ranger can keep up with any other job in most any senario, if used properly however, a few minor problems cause many rangers to either come equiped with iron arrows because that is all they can afford or hold back dmg due to enimity problems, or even hold back shots do to lack of available ammo on the AH. I believe the proper use on unlimited shot will fix all of those issues accept the enimity problem. and it seems in the vision post you just create you have ideas for that.
2.Unlimited Shot: Once we gain access to Double Shot Unlimited Shot becomes useless. This is hard to swallow for many rangers such as myself who stuggled for many years trying not to shoot our special Arrow only to inevitably shoot it and spend a week or two getting enough Conquest points to buy another. Unlimited shot gave us the ability to have one very nice high damage high ACC shot every 3 minutes. This also was great for saving that precious ammo.
Solution: Make Unlimited shot work per shot instead of per arrow. So if we double shoot or even quad shoot we will not use a single arrow for that shot only while unlimited shot is active. Make it stack with barrage this will decrease the ammo we use and allow us to shoot multiple shots and do the damage we desperatly need without costing us an arm and a leg. Make Unlimited shot seperate from double shot this way we can utilize the merits for unlimited shot that we already worked so hard to achieve.
Conclusion: Ranger can keep up with any other job in most any senario, if used properly however, a few minor problems cause many rangers to either come equiped with iron arrows because that is all they can afford or hold back dmg due to enimity problems, or even hold back shots do to lack of available ammo on the AH. I believe the proper use on unlimited shot will fix all of those issues accept the enimity problem. and it seems in the vision post you just create you have ideas for that.