Bowharp and the Death of RNG

[Anonymoose]

Oh gee, are you still harping on about this?

Bahaha, thy puns are sweet music o'er-arching my ears.

ARC is probably going to remain viable insofar as pure damage output is concerned. Jobs aren't meant to wholly replace classes, but supplement them with a new set of skills and specializations. A BRD's damage ceiling will, by nature of the job, likely be lower than a pure ARC's due to the necessity of balancing support skills and damage skills.

Nothing is dying, and ARC will likely receive a pure damage job (ranger or sniper) when the second round of jobs is released.

To a point I agree, but Yoshida-san has stated in interviews that the idea of having more than one job-per-class is not something they're planning for at all (YET), and if implemented, would likely be an after-thought. I'm sure they at least have their base list of what classes/jobs will be coming to the game, and we'll probably see that come to fruition before there's links. (Pure speculation).

Can you think of a more logical way they'd cram BST in here? They did say that they'd be implementing pet classes after sufficient testing. I can see Barcher becoming a radical damage dealer - at least ARC will have something to do between those new recast timers - buff shit.

Stunning logic, which unfortunately only works for the English version. In the Japanese version, the archer class is called simply "Bow-Warrior" (with the character for bow 弓　clearly indicating the weapon, and no abstract concept of bowing, bending or circling whatsoever ^.^/).

This is very true - but if we take that logic back around to the image, that range-arcing harp is clearly situated on a bow. /dodges. (Good catch, sir!)

The bow-harp is an interesting design, but interest aside, I think it's such a perfect example of the devs trying to fit jobs into the game where they don't belong.

I think the idea may have originated as a result of having to do this, but until I see the class in action, I'm reserving judgment. To be completely honest, it looks fun as hell.