The Letter is up

[Shikyo]

All I see so far is a copy and paste from XI. They should be improving on ARC not having auto attack in XI, not copy and pasting. But like I said earlier, make auto attack toggleable, for everyone. Problem solved. Have a global setting in configuration so you can set your default and then another option if you wish to change it for a specific mob. That gets rid of all inconveniences and keeps everyone happy.

You could Rage/emo quite homegirl, Because its gonna be melee close manual shots.

[Physic]

So it was just confirmed that Casters get melee only Auto Attack. Still feel like its good design, or more garbage down the chute?

Dont push ranged classes into melee range.
Dont leave any battle classes out of their appropriate auto attack.

You havent answered the issue, that melee AA needs to not stop thier movement or its trash, yet if ranged AA doesnt stop thier movement its totally OP. As long as AA stops your movement its probably a bad fit for archer. I see you dont want to press your button a lot, but unbalancing the game so you dont have to press a button would be foolish.

[Petori]

Why would AA stop movement? It wouldn't make any sense at all.

[Shikyo]

Why so many Emo's breaking out the straight razors about Archer and AA?
It's awesome you have total control.
Say you are fight a tough mob we all know a archer spamming arrows can take hate easy enough which is bad at times.
With AA you can come in and do some low Dmg DoT+Gain tp (death over time of course) while hate is being established, then move back and loose shots and ws's. You control what dmg you do and when its called Strategy to me idk.
It works very well, AA attack with bow makes no sense to me at all and i guess SE felt the same and I bet alot of others do as well.
Like I said earlier though, If you dont like how the class works dont play that class, I dont care much for mage or tank classes, so..... I JUST DONT PLAY THEM, easy. OR you could lay in a corner in the fetal position and cry yourself to sleep.
Either way thats the way Archer/Rng will be played after the update, I think its great.

[Physic]

Why would AA stop movement? It wouldn't make any sense at all.

When archers shoot they have to pause for a second, they cant shoot while moving, this is probably so you cant kite and do damage easily, never risking any AOE/cone etc hitting you, in this game most monster movement speeds are equal to player movement speed, so their is no risk to AA ranged attacks if it doesnt stop you when you try to hit them.

So if you dont get stopped for moving range is even more OP than before, if you do get stopped, it sucks that you will have some periodic skill binding your movement as long as you are targeting an enemy.

[elreed]

Aw yeah you show that guy your massive FFXIV e-peen. Mad respect dog.

LOL well i could tell you i hit for 10k dmg every light shot and my farts make an aoe of 30k dmg with stun debuff if i were a liar, dont expect me to believe such crap, and btw i dont say i dont use multishot and trifurcate as soon as i can i use those a lot, you might a rank 50 archer since january but that doesnt make you any better im actually r50 since january too btw and got it at that time because i spent some time ranking up other classes, and i dont spam bloodletter, i know the debuff it has.

Please at least be honest in your post, that way nobody will take you seriously, a noob might believe what you said but come on .....

Edit: Forgot to tell you that i use quicknock too, but only when i have an open way to use it and yes i've made near 1.8k with all the buffs and all, and the best ws for AoE is wide volley II with dodore, and yeah if i count the damage i make hitting all yeah would be above 1k dmg but not in a single target.

Its for Xenor not Demacia XD

[Shikyo]

So the thing I loathed most about RNG in FFXI is being kept for FFXIV? /sigh

Then dont play rng in xiv simple fix, no?

[Wevlum]

Then dont play rng in xiv simple fix, no?

Too late for that... although my favourite class will probably switch to PUG now.

However by that same logic, if everyone quit combat classes that'd be a simple fix for the combat system, no?

EDIT: Nevermind disregard reply, I saw "OR you could lay in a corner in the fetal position and cry yourself to sleep" and stopped taking this seriously.

[Glyder]

If Archers don't use arrows in close range then does this mean that they'll have to use a secondary weapon? Such as a Knife or perhaps something else?? O.o