Attack range.

[Rydin]

no day would be complete without rokien necro bumping one of his threads

It is officially Tuesday now...

Soo this going to be fixed... I mean, I stand 100 feet away from ifrit and still can hit it with a clear gap between my weapon point and ifrit!

Thats because it's not an action RPG.....

Everything is given a range... and anything within that range can be hit...

Lancer can't really be as realistic...
think about a Lalfell DRG and a Roegadyn DRG....
The way this game plays, they have to have the same range or people will be upset because they chose Lalafell not knowing that it would negatively affect their gameplay
So now Lalafell and Roegadyn have the same weapon range... but a Roegadyn Spear is going to be WAY LONGER... then not all spears will be the same length

So because this is NOT an action game (There are action elements... but overall it is, for all intents and purposes a speed/atb based RPG) the developers made a decision re: attack ranges. Pugilist being the shortest and Archer being the farthest.

If it feels like your DRG is attacking the same distance as the archer, then you can believe the archer has room to back up considerably and still hit the target.

Comparing it to the archer is silly because:
1. their ranges are drastically different
and 2. The archer is not "obligated" to stand far away... they can stand anywhere from right on the MOB to pretty far away... so unless you are testing against an archer at max range, then there really is no sense discussing a comparison

[Lux_Rayna]

If it feels like your DRG is attacking the same distance as the archer, then you can believe the archer has room to back up considerably and still hit the target.

Seriously...their ranges are way different. Idk how anyone can claim lnc has same range as arc. Like seriously? lol