ranged attack on every monster?

[JayvirDeforte]

I agree. As an archer, it's annoying not to be able to kite

[Peregrine]

Petition denied. Every enemy having a ranged attack is a response to every abuse of ranger in FFXI from years 1-5, which is precisely what everyone in this topic wants--a mob that doesn't hit back.

No.

[JayvirDeforte]

Petition denied. Every enemy having a ranged attack is a response to every abuse of ranger in FFXI from years 1-5, which is precisely what everyone in this topic wants--a mob that doesn't hit back.

No.

So instead you are going to throw any sort of tactic and positioning skill out the window? It's just not natural to have a goat sneeze on you from 50 feet away. They should still have to run to you

[Peregrine]

So instead you are going to throw any sort of tactic and positioning skill out the window? It's just not natural to have a goat sneeze on you from 50 feet away. They should still have to run to you

Uh, I'm going to throw your obvious attempt to throw every designed tactic ever inventable out the window so you can just shadowbind and kite everything, how about we put it that way.

Look, we all know exactly why you all don't want mobs that hit from a distance. You're not fooling anyone, which is why Tanaka stopped you before you even started.

It should stay. They knew exactly what you would do if you got what you wanted here. Kite and bind. Range range range range look how great we are! lolmeleers

[Peregrine]

one word dumb! every mob having a ranged attack is stupid as hell, and i hope they change it, this is just proof that no matter what there is someone in the world that eats crap on their pancakes =/

What is stupid is hell is binding birds so they don't attack, silencing worms so they don't attack, kiting kirin so it doesn't attack, and basically all the stupid tactics that you clearly want that clearly are just easy ways out of fighting something.

Your motives are perfectly obvious. You don't want the ranged attacks there, so you can figure out a way to kill something that can't hit you back.

That is, the sneezes are working exactly. As. Intended. Again, Tanaka saw people looking to exploit ranged attacks from a mile away and had goats spit on them as a response.

I'd take the hint.

[wannabe_fat]

I couldn't agree more. And the fleeing mobs that you can't catch up to. That's beyond awesome...

[JayvirDeforte]

Except that bind is crap in this game and doesnt work well any how.

In any case, EVERY enemy doesn't need to have a ranged attack. Ok, human enemies throwing javelins or a devilet casting is perfectly normal. But when every deer, goat or pig has a sneeze attack just for the sake of having a ranged attack, it's just stupid. Every one of us doesn't have a ranged so why should the enemies?

[Ayerc]

Having every enemy in game use ranged attacks is, as Jayvir put it, just stupid.

Kiting is an accepted strategy. It is rarely used by parties, but is a very effective for soloing. Implying that Archers or Mages or anyone else for that matter only want it as an easy mode, is silly and irrelevant. Kiting takes just as much attention as any stonewall strat, especially since we have to stop to perform an action, we can't just run away and attack free of danger.

What I don't understand about monster ranged attacks is that most of them are more powerful than regular attacks. That's ridiculous. I'm sorry, but a blast of snot is not going to hurt more than a goat head to the chest.