On this day one year ago, Ranger was nerfed.

[Heavencloud]

"heh yeah the being outdamaged by pld/nin comment was a bit over it, made me laugh actually because that was just dumb "

I'll see if I can find the parse... It was a pld/nin using joyeuse, justice sword with damage dealing gears.. hauby +1, cerb +1 etc.. He actually out damaged the ranger by a pretty decent margin. This was in Sea on Aern's.

And the rng was wearing..?

[Squallblade]

That doesn't mean DRK sucks by any means, it's just higher maintainance. You need to be more aware of hate levels, and you can't just freely spam your TP because you could kill yourself in the process.

That's so true.

[Stellar]

decent gear.. notably a faith torque, hellfire +1.. I dunno, doesnt seem to be that many options as far as ranger gear goes.. Not as much str as Rukenshin though..

[JoOeetheplatypuS]

That doesn't mean DRK sucks by any means, it's just higher maintainance. You need to be more aware of hate levels, and you can't just freely spam your TP because you could kill yourself in the process.

That's so true.

DRK also has the problem of HURTING parties when the drk sucks

[Priran]

DRK also has the problem of HURTING himself when his life sucks

amirite

[Devek]

I'm just going to photoshop myself doing a lot of damage.

http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/4309/asurankj2.png

[Rocl]

I'm just going to photoshop myself doing a lot of damage.

http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/4309/asurankj2.png

omg http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y250/Rocl/nerf.jpg MNK plz

[RKenshin]

I'm just going to photoshop myself doing a lot of damage.

http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/4309/asurankj2.png

Gimp.

Can't even break 4 digits.

[Epical]

I like how those exp mobs are so shitty and weak you can have a Chain# higher than the amount of exp you get.

There should be a book on how just because you aren't getting 200+ exp on Chain 3/4 max doesn't mean your exp isn't good. People love to overhunt for reasons I'll never understand.

[DeadLegend]

I'm not saying the exp is bad, I just haven't ever seen the point of warriors and crap bragging about the huge damage they get on these crappy weak mobs (with bard, and mighty strikes, and this ja, and that ja, with piercing bonus etcetc) it's more fun to hit hard crap and get hit by hard crap, but easy mobs are definitely better for exp.

I want an area with Fafnir clones on 5 minute pops, that don't drop anything, and are made for a single party to kill. Would it suck for exp? Absolutely. Would it be really fun sometimes? Totally.

[LD]

The Final Fantasy XI Community has long since embraced Potency and Tangible Effectiveness over the farce of Superficial Innovations.
Mostly because the Game is designed that way.
You need a group to get what you want and this game allows precious little margin for error (if not on a technical level, then on a social one).

This is what attracts people to this game, but it is also the source of many people's disappointment.

Grinding is not fun.
Not in any game, anywhere.
It is very seldom even enjoyable unless you rarely do it Well. -_-
Beyond that, it is only ever enjoyable when you are able to ignore what you're doing and engage in something somewhat positive.

Adding a new quirk to the system that will not produce a higher EXP yield or does not have a trade-off that makes it at least equally beneficial will simply give the community something new to make fun of, complain about, or just ignore.
It doesn't make the game any better, nor any worse.
It Just isn't Practical.

Summary: All that Gliters is not Gold. & Good Enough Isn't.

Layman/Heterosexual Summary & Author's Opinion:
Tough Shit. BOOOOOONNNNNNNGGGGG

[Excalin Garisk]

I'm not saying the exp is bad, I just haven't ever seen the point of warriors and crap bragging about the huge damage they get on these crappy weak mobs (with bard, and mighty strikes, and this ja, and that ja, with piercing bonus etcetc) it's more fun to hit hard crap and get hit by hard crap, but easy mobs are definitely better for exp.

I want an area with Fafnir clones on 5 minute pops, that don't drop anything, and are made for a single party to kill. Would it suck for exp? Absolutely. Would it be really fun sometimes? Totally.

Im going to go out on a limb here and say you like it rough...

[theo]

I want an area with Fafnir clones on 5 minute pops, that don't drop anything, and are made for a single party to kill. Would it suck for exp? Absolutely. Would it be really fun sometimes? Totally.

Sounds like Chains of LolAery to me. Just add a ludicrously hard BC at the end of the zone, and hell why not a level cap just for good measure!

>_>;

[BRP]

I'm just going to photoshop myself doing a lot of damage.

http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/4309/asurankj2.png

Gimp.

Can't even break 4 digits.

Needs more HP mod.

[Wulfgang]

The only fact AV missed ESS twice when it was the "Big Rush to Kill AV" time proves that R.Acc IS actually bad.

Shadows = miss.

[DeadLegend]

I play a game in dynamis with the other blms called Ranger Roulette. Grab a rng mob, remove our buffs, manaburn it and see who pulls EES. We dodge 2 or 3 per raid :x

200 evasion GO

[Rag]

Didnt SE fix EES with an update?
I remember before the patch at dynamis... 5rng mobs used EES and 4 was missed no utsi or blink was used (pld tanks)

EES is gay anyway slugshot do more damage......

[Stanislav]

Ranger is not completely useless a RNG with Culvern can unload as much dmg as a kraken DRK on DL
This ranger on Hades did a 2.4k slug on DL alone then add the barrage .. and ees and other slug and coutnt the dmg ... its more then BLM tbh
I bought a Culvern+1 to test it on DL for myself but had to kick one of our thieves from LS.. and i been forced to go THf in his spot /cry. Culvern+1 is pretty cheap too I paid 6m for it I think and its probbablt the strongest RNG weapon. I tried using it in Exp with ridill and i was almost on par with ridill war cause my WS did almost double what rampage did and I got TP just as fast and ridill hit for 60-80 dmg with berserk up which i spretty nice

[DeadLegend]

Blms blow in dyn xarc imo

edit:
say hi to rakeen '.'/

[Stanislav]

Blms blow in dyn xarc imo

edit:
say hi to rakeen '.'/

Uhh BLms dont blow lol tehy do better then melee-.-
Melee can barely dent the NMs lol