new 2 hour. if you give it a duration like the beast Familiar 2 hour (30 minutes) it MIGHT be worth it. With gear recycle cuts your ammo expenses roughly in half as it is. I still say our damage has been too nerfed over the years and it hasn't been put back. We're SUPPOSED to be roughly equivalent to BLM on damage, albeit without the variety of damage types-and we aren't. Both of our 2 hours seem like a clear indication that they have no intent of putting us back in the damage tier we should be. EES needs to have its damage scaled to the rise in level, I mean by level 30 you are already outdoing it with just regular weapon skills on occasion. IT'S 1 SHOT!!! break the damn thing, it should be doing automatically in excess of 4, maybe 5k damage on that 1 shot; what does it do now, 600? maybe 100 elemental if you use an elemental ammo with it? I do 600 damage on WS with my rdm about once every 2 hours, and since I aby-burned it my sword skill is still about 160 levels below cap with 0 merits. And EES is a sufficient 2-hour?