Please give archer a dagger.

[Gath]

But, all melee jobs have ranged attack weapons. And unlike FFXI, they actually land easily!

So lets assume we will attack with our fists(lame). Will damage be determined by our hand gear equiped? I always thought bows were 2 handed and it just seems odd to use one of those hands to punch things.

They landed easy in XI, you just needed to be skill capped
Which brings me back in the day when I would lvl throwing with pebbles and kill giants with them xD

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They landed easy in XI, you just needed to be skill capped
Which brings me back in the day when I would lvl throwing with pebbles and kill giants with them xD

most melee jobs had C-D, if that, rating for throwing/ranged weapons. No, they did not land very well on anything worth fighting. Anyways, you don't need to cap any skill in this to be good with ranged weapons on any melee job. Every class from Gladiator to Pugilist can equip ranged weapons from the get go and have very good accuracy with them.

I was just commenting to the person who said ARC shouldn't get a melee attack because melee don't have ranged attack, when in fact, they all do.