My Little RNG Ideas

First off lemme thank the devs profusely for attempting to make ammunition more available in the coming update, it's most certainly a step in the right direction.

That said I feel RNG could use a certain "something" when in potential farming/solo situations. It's not going to boost our power, actually it'll lower it to make things fair, yet I feel something along these lines would be necessary...

New JA - Conservative Shot, Duration 2 hours, recast 5 minutes. Greatly increases rate of activation for "Recycle" while lowering Ranged Attack and Weaponskill Damage. Does not stack with Double Shot, Velocity Shot or Barrage.

With something like this, despite the lowering of our damage output, solo farming or situations where we don't actually need to do lots of damage would be more favorable for us. As the one and only job that absolutely depends on ranged attacks to perform our basic duties, perhaps something along these lines could be an option...?

Also could you pleeease separate the timers for Unlimited Shot and Double Shot? It makes no sense and makes Unlimited Shot nigh useless these days. I don't think I've ever once even used it since Abyssea came out... :/ I had to merit Sharpshot Recast cuz there was nothing else in the Tier1 merit group even remotely worth it (other than Rapid Shot Rate.), fer cryin' out loud...!

Personally I'd never ever use rng for farming/soloing due to it being by far the most squishy job in the game, so i would have no need of something like this. (we need some defensive capabilities)

I am happy with the way SE are trying to make ingreadient more readily available for antlion/ruszor arrows and dwoemer bullets etc but i dont think that will have a huge effect, I think that either a standard crafting route needs to be added or even better lower the crafting skill prerequesite for synergizing them as well as maybe the craft level of some of the consituents.

Farming on ranger is excruciating and I think it would be much easier to take thf to cap. I don't like this JA suggestion because I feel like it allows gimp rangers to be even more gimp, but to each their own playstyle I suppose. If this JA became a reality the only thing I would use it for was knowing when to kick a player from the party.

If you are worried about ammo recycle merits and RNG af2 head can give you 45-55% recycle without greatly hurting your damage like conservation shot would.

There's also Recycle on Libeccio Mantle iirc.

The farming weapon for Ranger has always been crossbows which boast cheap ammo.

It's just understood that RNG isn't a good solo job anyway. If you're solo farming, there is enough Recycle gear/merits to limit ammo expenditure significantly right now.

RNG have lots of cheap ammo options and recycle options for situations where you don't need to be an elite DD'er.

What RNG needs is cheaper top end ammo and a reason to use it.

To be honest if I was farming I'd probably use an Axe or Dagger. Or I'd switch to a job that wasn't terrible at farming. Or I just wouldn't farm in the traditional sense because there's much better ways to make gil, most of which involve abyssea.