Why so few Rangers?

[noodles355]

Ranged damage is calulated differently from melee damage. STR is essentially twice as affective and our weapons have DMG ratings in the 160s. The highest melee DMG weapon is Apocalypse with 140. Our damage output per hit does not reflect this, however. Crit hits also add very little damage.

The damage is lower than a melees, and yet we still have to pay for ammunition. 240k stack of arrow quivers. 120k stack silver bullet pouches. 40k for one stack of dark adaman bullets.

Our trump card (shooting out or range) becomes irrelevant because everyone is doing much more damage (Atma, Buffs) but the hate cap has not been raised. Ranger has no means to shed enmity other than High Jump from /Drg.

Ranger is very flawed. And it pisses me off because I love the job.

[Catsby]

bunch of stuff.

this.

I'm fairly certain that Ranger hasn't received any actual attention in years and Bounty shot was shoehorned in at the last moment to make it seem otherwise. Abyssea makes all of it blatantly obvious though as others have shown in other threads. I'm half tempted to go rebuild all my tests that got erased and post the metrics again just to show how old Ranger is.