Question about the fishing thing, since I just started fishing. How much is it changed by? Like do you need to move a few feet to get fishing again, change zones, or is it per zone, or per person per item fished?

Exactly how does this "Dry up" thing happen, and how do you stop it? If you need to completely change zones to another one because one is being/has been over fished, then that just completely fucks up everyone trying to start fishing, or any fishermen.

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To be fair, most of my time is spent on Red Mage. If the cats I'm herding are alive I'm not concerned what their TP gain rates are. When I'm not on RDM I'm on Paladin. My concerns are Shadows > mob = facing me > everything else > Melee TP gain. So I was sort of operating on assumption that ranger gains TP quicker than most DD (because that psuedo justification almost makes sense - but not really), even though I know realistically they're not auto attacking freely. Ranged attacks take precedence over auto attacks, so from the time the weapon is drawn to the time the shot is fired no attacks are processing which in turn limits tp returns from melee. As does ranger's B- skill in axes and daggers.

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I'll say what I said back when SE implemented this on Retail: No one complained when they were in a party/alliance WITH a Ranger. When you were getting 10k-15k xp hr or annihilating Kirin in 15minutes, no one was asking Rangers to 'ease off'. No one cared about imbalance then. It was only when they were competing with a ranger for an xp slot that some pissed and moaned about 'balance'. But like in life different people are better at different things, certain jobs are (should be) better at different things than others. There's a reason RNG should out damage others: their entire job is based on burning through consumables. That's it. BST (jugs/reward), NIN (tools), RNG (arrows) and COR CONVERT GIL TO XP/HR, so it's patently obvious RNG should out damage, out TP, and out class a job like THF or WAR which can be geared cheaply. RNG always was a job for those individuals who had managed to get their financials straight on this game and Lord it over everyone else while sinking gil out of the economy. And GOOD. Great. The game needs that. It drives a huge portion of the player economy. That's gil for noobs. Rich players need a reason to spend gil, so that new players can earn it. But these types of 'fixes' put too much emphasis on 'balance'. Balance sucks. When everyone is the same, no one needs others for things. This is death for an MMO.

And if balance is a concern. What about my WHM damage? The shittiest DD, out TP's and out damages my whm. Does that need to be balanced? And My curing totally disenfranchises MNK's curing. Does that need to be balanced? I bet WAR's would love to charm mobs, it's unbalanced that BST can have pet damage where others can't. Maybe we should just make every job identical to others. Lets just get rid of the job system. Then everything will be balanced. And when everything's balanced, here's what you have: boredom.

Atleast 4 folks I directly know have logged out, contemplating quitting. That's four consumers, whose competence with game finances helped drive the economy. Nas needs to roll the server back to yesterday's state and we'll all agree to forget this ever happened. because he's seriously screwed the pooch here.

Just want to add my two cents.

I'm not an endgame rng and now may not ever be. I'm only 62.

But this is probably a job-killing nerf at this point.

Honestly I wouldn't mind just hanging back at the perfect range (in xp parties) and twanging away on my bow. That's the appeal of a ranged class for me. But realistically, I'll just be hanging back and waiting. And waiting. Because the second I throw a rapid shot after a normal one, that mob is leaving the party and coming after me. Everybody's xp/hr tanks.

I heard somebody say that if the sweet spot also had some enmity- that this implementation would be fine. I totally agree. It's just not possible to play ranger the way this nerf wants you to. You can't sit at 14 yalms or whatever and fire off shot after shot to make up for your lack of melee damage. There is no tank who can keep that mob off you, especially on birds or flies. That's why it's already not an option for any melee to sub anything but /nin.

It was also said to "find a good tank"--as if there are 5 tanks to choose from within 10 levels online at any given time. Oh, and at least one of them is in the 95th-percentile of great tanks. That's a disrespectful and unrealistic suggestion.

At least I can sell my ebow for 3M... ... ...

You don't need to change zones, simply moving a bit fixes it.

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=9209

I posted my results in that thread as well, to give people an idea of what's happening.

It's okay I wasn't really directing it at you, more just the people who believed that because I know they do exist. But yes, you're correct and especially when melee also have access to spells and abilities that shorten the delay between their swings, where Ranger has nothing but 10% delay reduction from 5/5 Snapshot merits and whenever rapid shot procs. So when a ranger is spamming their ranged attack macro as they should be depending on the situation then their TP gain is gated by their weapon's long delay. Compound this with ammo delay not adding the extra TP to ranged attacks as it should on this server, and now you have a TP phase that is slow as fuck in comparison to other DD classes.

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This is really good, I think. The game is finally starting to be more balanced.
There are just a few more adjustments to other jobs to be made to make it perfect.
Soon...

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Solid read, thank you!

How about no penalty while NOT engaged?

Trollolololol

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