Idea: Split Archer into Bard and Ranger

[Xerius]

What? As of right now, BRD and MCH are guaranteed a spot in the current meta for their regen abilties. A ranger would not have this, so their spot instead would be a pure-ranged dps, akin to the casters.

I don't understand where you're coming from. You're comparing Ranger to BRD, and saying we won't need it because casters will have to compete with the spot? All DPS are competing against all similar DPS for those slots already? How would this mess up the meta? Ninja didn't mess up the meta when it was introduced because of TP generation/taking a melee DPS slot.

[Warlyx]

I don't understand where you're coming from. You're comparing Ranger to BRD, and saying we won't need it because casters will have to compete with the spot? All DPS are competing against all similar DPS for those slots already? How would this mess up the meta? Ninja didn't mess up the meta when it was introduced because of TP generation/taking a melee DPS slot.

that because DRG sucked back then , and Mnk was top DPS and had DK that was awesome to have in coil....Ninja took the drg spot

now drg has BL and top dps

Ranger not gonna happen , MCH and BRD share gear and share the ranged dps with regen skill spot ....WM was supposed to bring BRD dps up to be on par with caster dps so we didnt feel like were just mana batteries....but dps wise we are in the same spot as we were before WM...so we lost movility and gained nothing in return.

we can only hope that by 4.0 we a way to customize jobs