ranged attack on every monster?

[Peregrine]

When bind is crap, you all will just kite. What you can't kite, you'll have one tank occupy and not let any other person get in AoE range (because meleers are MP sponges at hard fights with AoE) and feeding the mob tp (because ranged attackers hit harder). YOU brought this on yourself when you flocked to ranger as the solution to everything in FFXI and left dragoons and warriors sitting in town lfp for 2.5 hours on end.

Goats sneeze on you because your predecessors PROVED what you would do without them doing so.

[Demacia]

When bind is crap, you all will just kite. What you can't kite, you'll have one tank occupy and not let any other person get in AoE range (because meleers are MP sponges at hard fights with AoE) and feeding the mob tp (because ranged attackers hit harder). YOU brought this on yourself when you flocked to ranger as the solution to everything in FFXI and left dragoons and warriors sitting in town lfp for 2.5 hours on end.

Goats sneeze on you because your predecessors PROVED what you would do without them doing so.

When did you play FFXI? 2003?

This ranged attack nonsense on every mob needs to go and I'm glad to hear that it will.

[Peregrine]

When did you play FFXI? 2003?

This ranged attack nonsense on every mob needs to go and I'm glad to hear that it will.

The whole time, from the time where rangers were the solution to everything to when they were put in their rightful place in the game. I'm guessing you didn't play in 2003, because you want the same mistakes.

[Demacia]

The whole time, from the time where rangers were the solution to everything to when they were put in their rightful place in the game. I'm guessing you didn't play in 2003, because you want the same mistakes.

Nerfing Archer and removing ranged attacks from certain mobs are two different things. There's absolutely no reason for every single mob in the game to have a ranged attack.

[JayvirDeforte]

Nerfing Archer and removing ranged attacks from certain mobs are two different things. There's absolutely no reason for every single mob in the game to have a ranged attack.

This is EXACTLY my point.

[Ayerc]

The whole time, from the time where rangers were the solution to everything to when they were put in their rightful place in the game. I'm guessing you didn't play in 2003, because you want the same mistakes.

I did play in 2003, and I don't mind archers one bit, even though I was a DRG at the time. They made a big sacrifice to their pocketbooks to play as they did back then. Arrows were expensive, and the mats to create them weren't much cheaper. That means they had to devote a lot of their time to farming and generating money, just like NIN did in order to blink tank. An acceptable trade off in my opinion.

Now, the economy in XIV isn't as prohibitive as it was in XI, but that's a separate issue all together. And Archers in XIV aren't as overpowered vs. melee inXIV either.

[Radaghast]

Archers are still going to be the be-all end all melee in this game regardless unless their damage is nerfed so badly it's not worth ranging anymore. Why play any other job when you can sub in their skills and do it from range out of mob aoe?

[Peregrine]

Archers are still going to be the be-all end all melee in this game regardless unless their damage is nerfed so badly it's not worth ranging anymore. Why play any other job when you can sub in their skills and do it from range out of mob aoe?

Tanaka was watching rangers like a hawk because of how much they screwed up his last game. Yoshida is not. If Tanaka were still here, archer would have already lost multishot and been rendered less DPS than any meleer, because you're exactly right. They should pay for staying out of AoE range with being a weaker DD.

[AlexiaKidd]

Tanaka was watching rangers like a hawk because of how much they screwed up his last game. Yoshida is not. If Tanaka were still here, archer would have already lost multishot and been rendered less DPS than any meleer, because you're exactly right. They should pay for staying out of AoE range with being a weaker DD.

But arrows cost gill so thats they way I justify my huge damage ^^

[Neptune]

Owned! Yeah mobs don't need to be hitting unless they're right up on you if they're melee. Thank you.