Forget FFXI Ranger. He's dead. A new age has come.
Primarily DD ranged attacker simply doesn't sit well with the game mechanics. We've seen it with the instances so far.

This is the only logical choice to make. The era of ranged DD's has ended.

QQing about the fact that Archer is being made into "the BRD" class.
Your idea of QQing is quite interesting and unique.

But that never happened now did it!?