On this day one year ago, Ranger was nerfed.

[Michaera]

I want to see what's nerfed next so I know what to level. If you count the TP floor "gimp" as a nerf, then I'm 4/4 nerfed. Woot for being useless.

Still <3 my RNG though.

[Starr]

If you've ever leveled another melee job during the RNG craze you'd hate them too.

<- Dragoon, sorry but I loved this day

[Russta]

This thread needed to be made

Imagine 4x Ranger, Red Mage and Bard in Caedarva with full exp bonus and no comp pre-nerf. Shit, imagine Corsair without the nerf...

[ircgeek]

has there been some hidden change that lets SA stack with Ranged attacks?

I don't know about stacking with Sneak Attack, but I heard from 1up.com's Guide to FF XI that THF is a popular and wise choise for RNG sub!

[Miruka]

This thread needed to be made

Imagine 3x Ranger, Red Mage and Bard and Corsair in Caedarva with full exp bonus and no comp pre-nerf. Shit, imagine Corsair without the nerf...

Slight changes. =p

[ertyu]

No longer invited to meripo

stopped reading there

[Ryko]

Does wannabeJP OFFEND you? wwww ˆˆ

[ertyu]

you know me to well <3

[Epical]

RNG still works if your name is Rukenshin. Otherwise, no.

[Ghostface]

RNG still works if your name is Rukenshin. Otherwise, no.

True dat.

[Ryany]

Caedarva Mire is fairly decent for rangers to get merit points on due to most of the enemies there being weak to ranged attack. I'd honestly rank them 4th or so there beind war, mnk, and non-evasion whore ninjas.

I've seen some very impressive post-patch JP rangers in Bauer and Rinxx. I've yet to see any NAs on bahamut put out that kind of damage so I'm wondering what the difference is in either gear or playstyle between NA and JP rangers.

I don't like how warrior and black mage got all these ranger converts so all my pickup parties have war/nins skilling up a great axe 40 levels below cap in a party or black mages that use wands post-51.

I'd still say summoner rushing kirin would probably win faster even if rangers weren't nerfed. I'd love to see 18 smns in the alliance once his summons died. I'd bet you could have him down in 5 min after his summons.

[Seebo]

My whm rode all the way to 75 on arrow burn parties...Dhalmel in bibiki bay...or weapons, gawd

[Amara]

I still think ranger is incredibly strong, it just requires some ridiculous gear to bring out its full potential. In other words for exping, a kraken club, or at the very least a ridill. Otherwise you are getting tp at like 1/2 the speed of everyone else in the pt.

And I've seen some of the better rangers on my server do 1200+ slugshots to fafnir still, which makes me think the job is still very powerful for hnms.

The people who were rangers because they liked how overpowered it was, have all leveled second jobs now, blm, mnk, war. The people who actually take the job seriously still make me think the nerf wasn't so bad, people just don't wanna deal with being a "tier 2" damage dealer.

[Don Katsu]

I stopped leveling RNG at 37 after the nerf and somehow woodworking became less profitable

Maybe they will nerf BLM next so there will only be 30 of those online. Hell if they keep this up we can be online with 540 people!

God, I hope so. Then I can show all the fake blms how to really play the job just like all the real rngs are doing right now.

Also: lol, woodworking

Define fake BLM. lol, woodworking?

Also, I was never planning on leveling RNG past 37. My BLM was level 60 when my RNG was level 5 I just leveled it as a sub for WAR and RDM Sidewinder fun. Sorry if you find it funny that I'm having fun in the game.

[Dank]

I still think ranger is incredibly strong, it just requires some ridiculous gear to bring out its full potential. In other words for exping, a kraken club, or at the very least a ridill. Otherwise you are getting tp at like 1/2 the speed of everyone else in the pt.

And I've seen some of the better rangers on my server do 1200+ slugshots to fafnir still, which makes me think the job is still very powerful for hnms.

The people who were rangers because they liked how overpowered it was, have all leveled second jobs now, blm, mnk, war. The people who actually take the job seriously still make me think the nerf wasn't so bad, people just don't wanna deal with being a "tier 2" damage dealer.

Ridill and Kraken are useless for rangers now.

[DeadLegend]

FakeBLM casts Tier4 Nuke.
FakeBLM casts Tier4 nuke
FakeBLM casts -Ga3 nuke.
<FakeBLM> zomg HP0/653 I fucking rawk

The ones who bought weskits when they jumped to 10m, the ones who have never cast an elemental debuff, and the ones who can't stun for utsu ichi. Ie: the ones who play it like it's pre-nerf rng (spam dmg), except with non-physical attacks. The people who want to spam damage just because they think dying wins the fight, when even my weak shit blm(or any other) could pull hate, if we were retards.

Woodworking, I dunno.

On topic, rng seems ok to me <.< just not on overly strong monsters.

[Amara]

Ridill and Kraken are useless for rangers now.

Not if you aren't afraid of meleeing for tp.

You don't need to shoot things for tp, is what I've seen from pting with rangers who do this, its much faster to just run up, hit the thing with a kraken, and run back and slugshot, this is probably what allows them to do such high damage weaponskills, they are using a big gun with ridiculous delay, something other rangers wouldn't dare exp with.

[Ghostface]

More like can't afford >.>

Kraken/HF+1 would be viscious. I'd sport the shit out of if I had one.

[SephYuyX]

The ones who bought weskits when they jumped to 10m

700k ftw.

[Don Katsu]

The ones who bought weskits when they jumped to 10m

Or Black Cloaks for 1mil+

Back on topic. RNGs are still good vs exp mobs. Not so good on certain HNMs. I believe my LS still uses them for Kirin and Gods, they are still decent but the lack damage versus "pre RNG-nerf" is noticeable.

and for those who haven't tried it recently. RNG owns Dynamis Lord.