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

[Physic]

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1.) Many of those mobs with those aoe tp moves you mentioned are cone shaped. Meaning, the melee DD can avoid them also. I don't see the Melee DD having to pay gil for each swing/attack they do against those kinds of mobs!

2.) Like I mentioned in the second paragraph you quoted of mine, there is a counter to the high DPS of ARC. They kill faster, but they also die faster.

3.) ARC getting a bang for their buck is by higher DPS.

they die faster is irrelevant with a tank, in fact, with a tank, and hate management, they are the last to die.

You pay so that you are the last to die

Even mobs with conal aoe, also have circlular aoe, most of the mobs have this, some even have special traits, like raptors where if you dont stand in front and take thier conal aoe, you can get hit by the tail in a huge aoe. all this while the archer laughs it up in the background like HAHA i killed you all.

[Ayerc]

Even mobs with conal aoe, also have circlular aoe, most of the mobs have this, some even have special traits, like raptors where if you dont stand in front and take thier conal aoe, you can get hit by the tail in a huge aoe. all this while the archer laughs it up in the background like HAHA i killed you all.

Or you can stand to the side of the raptor, and dodge both Fire and Tail.

[Joe_Cool]

they die faster is irrelevant with a tank, in fact, with a tank, and hate management, they are the last to die.

You pay so that you are the last to die

Not True.
And since we're back to tank parties....if the tank dies, who do you think the mob is going to go after first? The ARC with its very high enmity generation and weakness toward attacks or one of the melee DD's who can actually hold their own against the mob?

Answer: ARC


Please see Ayerc's comment about the raptor's aoe's. So I say again....

1.) Many of those mobs with those aoe tp moves you mentioned are cone shaped. Meaning, the melee DD can avoid them also. I don't see the Melee DD having to pay gil for each swing/attack they do against those kinds of mobs!

BTW, there are mobs that only have cone aoe tp moves.