Confusion: Archer to Bard? Where is the Ranger Job?

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Originally Posted by Lionheart

http://cheezburger.com/lionheart248/...iew/5457398528

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While I find this comic absolutely hysterical in a satirical sense, I can't help but reiterate (just in case this still isn't hitting home with someone):

Ranger is at least 500% more focused on mastering the landscape and animals within its borders than it is on what weapon it uses while doing it.

Range (Verb): Roam, master, and protect landscape.
Range (Adjective) Long-distance

In the case of fantasy classes, "range" is a verb, not an adjective.
Thus, a Ranger performs the verb, it is not defined by the adjective.

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Originally Posted by Choyi

Musketeer class is planned, surely RNG could become an adv job of that in the future.

And in general RPG settings BRD can be a great DD with differnating levels of support abilites/spells, just cause it was a "weak" support only type class in XI doesn't make that true for its XIV version.

How I envision a typical RPG Bard; its a class that can enter in meele with daggers, swords or maces, shoot from distance with a gun or crossbow, help boost party morale, giving buffs with songs of valor and bravery as the same time enfeebling the monster with entrancing meloies.

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Sounds to me like you are discribing Corair instead of Bard.

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Originally Posted by Anonymoose

While I find this comic absolutely hysterical in a satirical sense, I can't help but reiterate (just in case this still isn't hitting home with someone):

Ranger is at least 500% more focused on mastering the landscape and animals within its borders than it is on what weapon it uses while doing it.

Range (Verb): Roam, master, and protect landscape.
Range (Adjective) Long-distance

In the case of fantasy classes, "range" is a verb, not an adjective.
Thus, a Ranger performs the verb, it is not defined by the adjective.

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Yeah, I agree, it's just a matter of names really... call it hunter or sniper idc. We just call it ranger because it was the name for ranged dps job in ffxi. ;)

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Originally Posted by Choyi

Musketeer class is planned, surely RNG could become an adv job of that in the future.

And in general RPG settings BRD can be a great DD with differnating levels of support abilites/spells, just cause it was a "weak" support only type class in XI doesn't make that true for its XIV version.

How I envision a typical RPG Bard; its a class that can enter in meele with daggers, swords or maces, shoot from distance with a gun or crossbow, help boost party morale, giving buffs with songs of valor and bravery as the same time enfeebling the monster with entrancing meloies.

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That vision of bard sure is intriguing... maybe he can do a too many things but I like it. Problem is there are people who wanted a pure ranged dps job and now they won't have that choice.

They could wait a little more and make a whole support class from zero maybe for patch 1.23 or something. Like BRD -> DNC (just to say 2 class/jobs that would fit in dd/support role)