ranged attack on every monster?

[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

[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?

[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.

[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?

[Neptune]

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

[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.

[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.

[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 ^^

[Reika]

I agree with OP. not EVERY monster in the game should have a range attack. Especially not goats, dodos, puks, hypographs, mongrels, wolves, sheep, and every other zoo animal.