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

[Peregrine]

Oh wait WoW is over this way if I want to play a game like that.

This is the sticky situation MMORPG makers face. There is a horde of players who know that MMORPGs tend to favor ranged classes and overpower them, and constantly let them run the endgame show. Any MMORPG who takes a stand against them, they ragequit and threaten to stop playing.

They're like senior citizens and self-entitled baby boomers. They block every change that needs to change by threatening to vote whoever does it out of office.

They threaten and threaten, and no one calls them on it until the status gets so bad that action HAS to be taken. So many rangers quit final fantasy XI after the nerf. Sad part is those players caused the quitting of three times as many players, so square enix lost on all fronts.

That's why it's important to nerf archers now. Not later. Nerfing them later does two things. A. It drives other players to quit before archer is balanced. And it causes archers to ragequit when archer is balanced.

Do it now. Do it soon.

[Xzen]

This is the sticky situation MMORPG makers face. There is a horde of players who know that MMORPGs tend to favor ranged classes and overpower them, and constantly let them run the endgame show. Any MMORPG who takes a stand against them, they ragequit and threaten to stop playing.

They're like senior citizens and self-entitled baby boomers. They block every change that needs to change by threatening to vote whoever does it out of office.

They threaten and threaten, and no one calls them on it until the status gets so bad that action HAS to be taken. So many rangers quit final fantasy XI after the nerf. Sad part is those players caused the quitting of three times as many players, so square enix lost on all fronts.

That's why it's important to nerf archers now. Not later. Nerfing them later does two things. A. It drives other players to quit before archer is balanced. And it causes archers to ragequit when archer is balanced.

Do it now. Do it soon.

So remove all ranged DD and support and spread those abilities between the remaining melee. Get rid of ARC, THM, CON, all together or make them all have the same value to a party as ranged classes. At the moment conjurer is the least useful of the three and needs to be buffed.