[Job Adjustmentｓ Manifesto] RNG

[Atomic_Skull]

There's no ammo on the AH because RNG is a dead job. Fix RNG and the ammo shortage will correct itself.

[Xellith]

RNG isnt a dead job by any means. I sometimes go as a naked RNG in tahronghi or another area to widescan the NM location!

[Glamdring]

Time for some ranger love! Remember, keep the feedback and comments coming, and we'll do our best to address it!


The distance correction functionality of ranged attacks greatly affects rangers, and based on the opinions of players, we understand that some kind of adjustment is necessary.

With that said, simply removing the distance correction functionality will not solve every problem, so we are working on adjusting the system to be more positive.

Honestly, even tho' I'm sure you don't want to "ape" other games I would sugest a "crosshair" icon when you've engaged an enemy (attacked) that continually displays. have it change colors to indicate that you are in the "sweet spot" (if you insist on maintaining this system). considerring the way hate fluctuates (under the current unbalanced play system) this will also help when you've found the sweet spot only to lose placement because player X has decided to pull hate for their DPS bragging rights and the mob moves out of said sweet-spot.

[Glamdring]

RNG isnt a dead job by any means. I sometimes go as a naked RNG in tahronghi or another area to widescan the NM location!

I'll see your naked ranger ad raise you my naked beast with a pet that solos the mob without my even staying in damage range

[Feliciaa]

Posting actual feedback today!

Ranger Improvements:

We currently have no plans of adding an ability that resets hate for ranger. We suggest forming a party with a job that can control hate, such as thief, to get around this issue.

***If this is the direction the design team wants to go please have them consider giving Camouflage a Static duration. Even a 1min duration would be MUCH better then the random duration it currently has.

I would like Rapid Shot to be activated every time.

This will be very difficult, since Snapshot is a trait that can be enhanced to further reduces the time in between ranged attacks, and these two would become very similar.

***A 100% chance to Rapid shot would be way too strong. However, Rapid Shot atm only has a 5-10% chance to even proc. Since it seems there are no plans to add snapshot to haste,haste samba, or march songs consider adding a plus Rapid Shot to the new Subtle Blow JA (maybe +10-15%). This way RNG can compete a little better vs. high haste situations but still has a timer to balance out the extra damage.

Eagle Eye Shot has the advantage of having high accuracy, but we are looking into adding additional benefits. We think it will be best if we can add some kind of benefits other than simply yielding high damage.

***Consider having Eagle Eye Shot add an Enmity Suppression for the next 30 seconds. A RNG could then go all out with what they have but they are not gaining nor losing Enmity.

Lastly, I know it's not mentioned in the Manifesto, but there really is a major ammo issue for both RNG and COR as mentioned a few times on both forums. The design team should look into adding more ways to obtain ammo whether it's buying the ammo from a NPC or adding the synthesis materials to a NPC.

[noodles355]

Lastly, I know it's not mentioned in the Manifesto, but there really is a major ammo issue for both RNG and COR as mentioned a few times on both forums.

The fact they replied to some random point on Blast Shot but ignored the whole ammo issue is completely uunacceptable.

[Leonlionheart]

How to fix RNG forever:

Make Haste, March, and Hasso affect the delay of ranged attacks, along with capping at 80% along with EVERY OTHER PHYSICAL DAMAGE DEALER?

How is this unbalanced, since everyone else has it?

At least give BRD a song that reduces the delay of ranged attacks... or SCH a spell that does so...

[Feliciaa]

Haste, march, and hasso should just have snap shot added to them. Rng is not the super dd it was pre ranged attack nerf so no idea why they can't use them.

[Leonlionheart]

Or, similar to Hasso's STR increase works, increase the potency of Velocity Shot's snap shot per x amount of levels.

45: 10%
55: 12%
65: 14%
75: 16%
85: 18%
95: 20%

There. I fixed it for you SE.

[Lokithor]

My biggest gripe about ranger (other than enmity issues) is barrage and sharpshot. Fix barrage so that each shot is calculated independently and not cause subsequent shots to miss if one in the sequence misses. The way it works now, gear that adds additional shots to barrage is next to useless because of the diminishing probability that the extra hits will even have a change to hit.

Either that or make sharpshot GUARANTEE hits while active. If you load up on accuracy, I don't think sharpshot actually does anything at all because it can't push through the accuracy cap.

Better yet, do both.