Speculation on how jobs will change

[Fantasia]

BRD:
..................I never liked how they did this job :/ A bow class that doesn't do as much damage as it should because its musical support. I wish they had just put an 8th class for this instead of what they did and made archer go to Ranger....

I think this is a bit of an unfair summary. I mained BRD and with the right gear it was stupidly powerful. Even if it wasn't, ranged classes shouldn't be as powerful as their melee counterparts, solely for the fact that they're usually out of range of 90% of attacks. The exception obviously being BLM, but they have MP to make their output fairly limited.

Besides, in other FFs, a Ranger's weapon of choice is a crossbow, so there's still room for a more DD ranged-class out there.

[Reika]

I think this is a bit of an unfair summary. I mained BRD and with the right gear it was stupidly powerful. Even if it wasn't, ranged classes shouldn't be as powerful as their melee counterparts, solely for the fact that they're usually out of range of 90% of attacks. They exception obviously being BLM, but they have MP to make their output fairly limited.

Besides, in other FFs, a Ranger's weapon of choice is a crossbow, so there's still room for a more DD ranged-class out there.

Well then they will never add Ranger or any other ranged DPS if it should never be compareable to melee dps. Ranger in XI wasn't a weak job at all and was majorly perferred over the melee ones. Its also saying they should greatly reduce black mages damage output to be below melees because they can attack from afar.

[Fantasia]

Well then they will never add Ranger or any other ranged DPS if it should never be compareable to melee dps. Ranger in XI wasn't a weak job at all and was majorly perferred over the melee ones. Its also saying they should greatly reduce black mages damage output to be below melees because they can attack from afar.

Wait, what? I'm saying that they ARE likely to add RNG as a more damage outputting version of the ARC. And I'm not saying that BLM output should be reduced, because they are already limited by having an MP pool. One big splurdge of spells and they're out for a bit.