Thinking of comming back to FFXI..QUESTION...

[Aj5000]

Hey guys, Um...I haven't played for over 7 months, and I was wondering what job to play... I was thinking to be a RNG but after reviewing the Update on Playonline they kind of made RNG more challenging...I like challenges but what they did kind of overdid it... Im glad now that Rangers have to find a sweet spot on a enemy but... with the topics I read they drastically reduced the damage of rangers....

Another job I seem to have an interest for is DRG.... the 2 hour they added for DRG was awesome!

Are RNG'S still outdamaging other jobs ( Lvl 30-60) ? Has DRG changed drastically than before or pretty much the same? Is DRK better in the means of consistent damage, And..... with the update does SAM/RNG still work lvl 60-75?

Thanks...

[bikkebakke]

Re: Thinking of comming back to FFXI..QUESTION...

They didn't reduce the damage of RNG's. They just made it so that you have to play a RANGEr as a ranged player. They still do awesome damage, they just can't expect to do that damage up close anymore. Meaning they can't use dual wield to help build they're tp faster and spam WS. The major change that helps DRG is the fact that you no longer have to wait 2 hours for your call wyvern to reset, It's now 20 minutes which helps alot since DRG's get alot of extra damage from their wyvern.

[Kagerou]

Re: Thinking of comming back to FFXI..QUESTION...

The 2hr itself is good, but not devastating.
The big boost is what bikkebakke said, that u no longer have to wait a sh*tload amount of time to re-summon ur wyvern once it dies.

I wouldn't choose a job over its 2hour.

[aegina]

Re: Thinking of comming back to FFXI..QUESTION...

the ranger job has changed so much, that it's basically like playing a whole new job.

i took up ranger because of the changes to it. it made the job sound interesting. it's actually fun to try to keep yourself in the sweet spot during the chaos of battle, and even though you can't melee anymore, you still gain tp like a mo'fo, hehe.

you are...slightly... weaker than you were pre-patch, and i've had a few pt members say, *sigh, i wish they'd make ranger back the way it was...* but no one has complained about my numbers. i've still managed to out-damage almost every pt member i've had, except some of the better black mages, and i spend more time tanking in some pt's than the tanks do but i'm a pretty good ranger. i've seen a couple who didnt seem to understand the idea that there's a sweet spot now, and you can't melee while /ra <t>ing at the same time for good numbers anymore. once you find the sweet spot, and keep yourself in it, however, it's all over.

ranger is still good, it's one of the best dd's in the game, it's just not god anymore. as long as you treat it like a new job instead of comparing it to the old ranger job, it's great. i actually like the patch, i think it was well made. it weeded out the crappy rangers, and made it easier for other jobs to get invites while not actually breaking the rng job itself.

[Aj5000]

Re: Thinking of comming back to FFXI..QUESTION...

Wow guys thanks alot for all the info! You guys were reallly helpful... I'm just going to go try out the RNG, forget about what people say about all bad it is.. and see if I like it... then i'll go from their.. From my whole FFXI experience all I have been is tank... 59 PLD, 59 NIN, and 39 WAR....

Btw in case any of you were wondering which I don't think u were why I quit for over half a year because someone "hacked" my account and stole my character...How did they do this? I have no clue.. But they charged over $50.00 on the credit card I was paying my account on. Apparantely they charged two accounts on my credit card for 2 months... I fought with Sqaure Enix and actually told them the character name I thought that may have got my account because of "suspicious" messages to me in the game.... What did Square Enix Say? We'll investigate this and get back to you in 2 weeks.. Did they ever get back to me? No they didn't but I did get a refund on my credit card... So i decide to screw it... That means I have to buy the actual FFXI game again because I can't use the serial number in the back of my disk because some idiot is using my account...

And the sad thing about all this, is that the guy is still playing on my account but used his own credit card to pay for it...

Anyways, thanks a whole lot guys lol..