History repeats itself: Time for the Great Archer Nerf of 2011

[Peregrine]

Ignore the arrow cost, thats not even a main point. What about all the other factors?
OH NOES ARCHER CAN STAND OUT OF RANGE AND ATTACK
wtfbbqoverpoweredloldrgnerf

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Maybe the solution is to reduce a bows range to that of a lancer, and make arrows hit as hard as spirit dart. Also remove multishot. Then maybe that will be balanced.

Considering that's the only self-entitled argument you've raised, go ahead and raise another one. It's not like archers aren't trying to reuse the same exact things rangers did before they got nerfed. There's nothing you can say to justify your current status, no matter how many archers you get behind you.

Every day you get more and more archers behind you because this demographic flocks to imbalance. Doesn't matter how many of you there are, you're drunk on imbalance. Same exact thing happened to rangers.

Everyone and their brother was a ranger in XI, and they still got nerfed so hard that they nearly became extinct. Square Enix got lazy, and now the same issues are popping up.

Time to send a message.

[Peregrine]

The point?

If you mean the history should not repeat...thats mean we should stop Arc nerfing, right?

Nerfing ranger helped FFXI tremendously. It will do the same for XIV. In fact, nerfing it now as opposed to when the nest turns into a colony will spare it FFXI's horrible fate and painful meleer revolution.

Every day the archer blight brings the game closer to a generic death. Every day two marauders die and two archers are born.

[JayvirDeforte]

Peregrine is just an angry troll who is mad that Conjurer can't nuke because SE messed up stats. Therefore, he will instantly be mad at any class that can outdo his damage and will try to justify it using "history" as a basis, even though it has 0 relevance to the current situation.

It's hilarious really. You would think that if there was something really wrong with the class, more than just him would have said something. Can't say I've seen anyone else agreeing wholeheartedly with him >_>

[DoctorMog]

Peregrine, next tips and tricks video will be on how all the other classes can do just as much damage as archer.

XD

[Timotheus]

Nerfing ranger helped FFXI tremendously. It will do the same for XIV. In fact, nerfing it now as opposed to when the nest turns into a colony will spare it FFXI's horrible fate and painful meleer revolution.

Nice opinion, the logic behind the similar nerf would work on a vastly different game is totally absent though.

and again, the point?

[Peregrine]

Scratch that, every day 3 marauders die and 2 archers are born. Losing people, what's left are all becoming archers.

[Aion]

erm,how long it takes to do multishot2x+RagingString+Ferocity+WS?must be 2 or 3 seconds right?and enemies dont care while we preparing OMGOverPAWNED shot for it.....


oh wait.....

[AlexiaKidd]

Scratch that, every day 3 marauders die and 2 archers are born. Losing people, what's left are all becoming archers.

You know why that is? It is because Archer is fun to play you don't just mash 1,1,1,1,1,1,1 unlike other jobs that is why so many people like it.

[Peregrine]

Peregrine, next tips and tricks video will be on how all the other classes can do just as much damage as archer.

XD

A futile experiment if done well that will likely backfire. The community is flocking to archer for a simple reason: OP. Go to the great buffalo and try to outparse your ranger. A Ranger can damage it, die, return to the crystal, run back, wait for weakness, damage, die, wait for weakness, damage...and still beat the marauders and lancers who have been DD'ing the entire time...by 5% of the party damage.

Already know that. Happens every time.

[Timotheus]

Scratch that, every day 3 marauders die and 2 archers are born. Losing people, what's left are all becoming archers.

I don't think you can trick anyone with this guesstimate. I thought you are originally trying to persuade ppl support your idea? How come you would ruin your own credibility by this laughable guesstimate?

So self-defeating, so sad.

A futile experiment if done well that will likely backfire. The community is flocking to archer for a simple reason: OP. Go to the great buffalo and try to outparse your ranger. A Ranger can damage it, die, return to the crystal, run back, wait for weakness, damage, die, wait for weakness, damage...and still beat the marauders and lancers who have been DD'ing the entire time...by 5% of the party damage.

Already know that. Happens every time.

without source again?