Ranger was my first job to 75 and my absolute favorite job. I played pre-nerf and post-nerf and after the 'fix'. I will always love this job but the respect we get from other players is pathetic. I am not allowed to play ranger for ls events because it has been deemed useless for most endgame activities.

There is an issue of damage output. My ranger had the best gear at 75. With that gear I was able to keep up with all but the best players in my shell. It was upsetting that my gear was equal (or better) than theirs but my damage never equaled or exceeded theirs. I think the thing that puts us at the greatest disadvantage is that we are completely different from other DDs. Haste and march have no benefit for our damage (and these are the primary buffs that other DDs are given). There needs to be something that offsets this full time because in reality other DD will always have haste and march in a group situation and so these DD will always outperform us if we don't get some other kind of buff (perhaps making velocity shot stronger?). SE needs to offset the advantage of these buffs for rangers OR add a buff to these buffs that gives rangers some benefit.

My other large complaint is about abyssea. Because ranger is useless in abyssea, it is rare that we are allowed to bring ranger to abyssea (there's also the issue of atmas for rangers not being as powerful as double attack/crit atmas). Make hotshot and flaming arrow trigger red !!!. My linkshell refuses to use ranger in abyssea because they have no use for farming KI's and empyrian upgrades. I haven't played ranger since we stopped killing Yilbegan before abyssea was added to the game.

I agree that enmity is a bit of an issue but I've looked at this as a tradeoff. We don't get hit by AoEs and so we pay a penalty for that. Before abyssea my linkshell brought rangers to any fight with nasty AoE's and we all subbed dragoon to shed hate. We dealt comparable damage to melee DDs as long as we were given double minuet + chaos roll but we required less mp to heal as long as we watched our hate.

As far as bounty shot goes all I can say is WTF? :P This doesn't stack with TH and THF has more uses for most events (they can deaggro adds, pull NMs, tank, deal great dmg, trigger multiple !!!, help mitigate hate for a party, dispel buffs)... Why give ranger another JA that has little use. I think it would have made more sense to give bounty shot to COR and triple shot to RNG.

I realize there are other jobs that also need to be fixed to make them more important for abyssea (PLD, DRK, SCH, DRG) but the fact is RNG has been broken much longer than these other jobs and I think it's time it was fixed.