"For instance, archers will strike with their bare fists"

WTH SE, why screw Archer so bad to this??? I mean, archers are not a front line job, you guys should know this, Archers are meant to be back support not front line...how the hell will archers do a punch animation when they have to stay at range and not up close and personal...I can understand on solo play this is probably not a major issue but on party setup especially on NM runs...Archers aren't staying at front to punch the crap of the mob until they can shoot arrows...I mean come on!!! This is the dumbest idea that you guys came up with so far...atleast Archer in FFXI had knife...bare fists??? Not only that but archer players will get a message every freakin second they do punch animation at range saying "you are not at range"...I stuck around on this game this long in hopes of good innovative ideas are implemented..not to turn this game to a FFXI clone! Why do YoshiP and his team listen to those who complain so much that FFXIV needs to be more like FFXI? Come on now...this game doesn't have to feel like FFXI...you guys are smarter than that! Just keep giving us good content to play with...holy crap..you guys have to mess with the battle mechanics so much that you have to end up resorting to making it look like FFXI?