I need to vent (VERY long)

[Adol]

Its not just running out of arrows, is that being an Archer should not be more burdensome and costlier than the other classes. Unlike the other classes Archers need to buy arrows in order to fight, while none of the other class require the spending of money to fight. What makes this worse is that better arrows cost more money further increasing the expense of being an Archer. None of the other classes are subjected to this cost so to me Archers should not be penalised for using arrows.

I think the idea of archers needing to buy/craft arrows is that the archer is a really strong class. It's probably one of the strongest damage dealing classes in any MMORPG and FFXIV is no exception to this. I feel that this is what brings the balance with respect to having to buy ammo and having the potential to become useless in battle when they run out.

[Wynn]

Its not just running out of arrows, is that being an Archer should not be more burdensome and costlier than the other classes. Unlike the other classes Archers need to buy arrows in order to fight, while none of the other class require the spending of money to fight. What makes this worse is that better arrows cost more money further increasing the expense of being an Archer. None of the other classes are subjected to this cost so to me Archers should not be penalised for using arrows.

Fair enough.

[geniusprime]

Also if teleportation was free then there'd be no point in having chocobos.
I hope you can see where I'm coming from with this.

The point of Chocobos would be for traveling to areas that are not accessible via teleporting and there is a lot of areas in the game where teleporting only makes the journey slightly shorter. So the need would still be there. Currently teleporting is only useful for getting to key points but does not make the entire map fully accessible. Because of this, I see now harm in it being free and I do not see it affecting the usefulness of Chocobos. And then there is the simple joy of riding one.

[geniusprime]

I think the idea of archers needing to buy/craft arrows is that the archer is a really strong class. It's probably one of the strongest damage dealing classes in any MMORPG and FFXIV is no exception to this. I feel that this is what brings the balance with respect to having to buy ammo and having the potential to become useless in battle when they run out.

That does not sound like good balancing to me. There are better ways to balance a class than to make them useless because they are short on funds. The stamina bar can be one way in which you can control the rate of fire of an Archer.

[Mack]

Arrows cost 3 gil a piece and everyone in FFXIV is an upper class elite, I'm sure you will never be short on funds to the point where you can't afford arrows. FFXI Rangers had it much worse and they managed.

[Draven]

... I have been away from this game for over six months...

I stopped reading after that.

[geniusprime]

Arrows cost 3 gil a piece and everyone in FFXIV is an upper class elite, I'm sure you will never be short on funds to the point where you can't afford arrows. FFXI Rangers had it much worse and they managed.

I don't see how that justifies the additional cost Archers need to bare.

[Mack]

I don't see how that justifies the additional cost Archers need to bare.

hmm I guess it doesn't, I didn't think I was justifying the cost but I guess I agree with you from that point that they should maybe give other classes a gil burden somehow. In FFXI mages were the most costly after ninjas during my days but the majority of other classes didn't really have heavy costs other than armor. They fixed mages in this game by making spells learned on level up but decided to keep archers the same.

[Kiroh]

I wonder whatever happened to that skill they were going to add that converted mp into arrows...

[geniusprime]

I wonder whatever happened to that skill they were going to add that converted mp into arrows...

Now that would be awesome.