Ranged DPS affected by range?

Last night a friend of mine was ranting over ranged DPS players and their ideas of keeping their distance from the target. He said that the farther away the player is from the enemy, their attack output is reduced because distance affects it negatively. Is this true?

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Originally Posted by WanderingLion

Last night a friend of mine was ranting over ranged DPS players and their ideas of keeping their distance from the target. He said that the farther away the player is from the enemy, their attack output is reduced because distance affects it negatively. Is this true?

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wrong game. tera does that. atleast my black mage is not effected in any way shape or form, and ive yet to see anything like this for an archer

FFXI has (used to? they've changed it a lot since I quit) a sweet spot, so he could also be getting it from that. 1.0 Had a lot more positional mechanics that they took away as well. Regardless, that's not the case.

Being a BRD myself, I would have notice, but never did and didn't think much of it until he ranted. Lol

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Originally Posted by Allyra

FFXI has (used to? they've changed it a lot since I quit) a sweet spot, so he could also be getting it from that. 1.0 Had a lot more positional mechanics that they took away as well. Regardless, that's not the case.

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I think the sweet spot was only for ranger/archer can't remember the job name in ffxi.

No...just...no.

The reason you stay at range is to not drop fire effects on the melee.

I think he is talking about spell travel speed.