Nesse

Ok, not joking - considering betraying.

Or for the lazy... a response from Aeralik.

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Dantel

Not really, looks like more political speak to me. He hasn't confirmed anything there that would suggest they are, or aren't fixing it.

Look how quick they were to change our epics? How long did it take to do "extensive testing" on that ability before figuring out it was bad?

I still don't buy the bs.

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Mirdo

All I would say Nessee it that tbh it's basically what we were told near the start of RoK. They know about it and a fix is being considered. 'Nothing is set in stone' could mean anything from nearly complete plans to not even made it onto someone's schedule of stuff to do yet.

Hexus

After a year of knowing this was coming and all the complaints were seeing now, this is a "meh" effort to stave off the rangers that were cancelling their accounts or shelving their rangers permanently.

Basically right now if you cannot complete your mythical epic then you are a detriment to your raid unless you're in the top 5% of your class and even then you aren't as useful as most of the other scouts.

-Hexus-

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Argyle_SC

While it is somewhat reassuring that we now know the issue hasn't been completely put on the back burner, this is still the same vague crap kind of response we have gotten since the issue(s) began. Also, as it has been pointed out repeatedly in other threads, the arrow issue is anything but new. If you look at the entire history of EQ2, arrows actually were never functioning correctly.

So we keep getting responses such as 'details are still being worked out' or 'nothing is set in stone'. Are you fucking kidding me? It is talked about as though it would be rocket science to fix, and it shouldn't be. Even if it were, wouldn't it have been smart to at least temporarily make crafted arrows level 77 or something so that bow item progression worked properly. I really doubt anyone would have complained had you done that. I guess instead the devs opted to have our class take it in the ass for half (possibly an entire) expansion.

There are half a dozen ways that we could have been fixed or at least temporarily working properly. The fact that it has been put off this long is simply unsatisfactory. I wonder how many rangers total either switched to another character, betrayed, or just completely canceled their account.

Houchicouchiman

A solution to global warming will be found before the arrow issue is fixed. We need a new dev. All in favor say...........(insert your inner most thoughts and bullshit regarding what we have here).

Giland

Personally, I would like to see a little more detail. An idea of which way they plan on taking it if you will.
Rangers get shafted is so many other places (lower % of range on items vs Melee %)(proc buffs not working on ranged) that they need a lot of love.
The Devs giveth, and the Devs taketh away. Seems they can taketh away in 2 days, but it takes 2 years to giveth.

Mixer

Actually that would be what since November 04? Being vague in a response tells me you have no fucking clue what changes you are going to make or when. This "fix" is not mythical. It is not restricted by national security. Just say hey we know its fucked, this what we want to do but not sure how to get there yet. Here are some ideas that we are mulling over and we would like your (ranger community) input so we can ensure that all are happy not just the melee scouts, not just the woodworkers, not just the mages. It saddens me to see that someone actually gets paid to give out bullshit responses. Aerilik, I will tell you what my Sargeant Major tells me "If I told my boss this response to this issue would he accept it and when should I start looking for a new job?" Well guess what we are the boss. We pay the salaries of those that produce this game we stop paying and cut backs and layoffs are bound to happen. Look at any other company that is not producing what the customer wants. Whole factories are shut down for just the same thing.

Fackie

Something is better than nothing I guess, but we had all heard that before. I guess we just need to see what happens and Play alt or do whatever you want to do until then.

Drodin

So it was an oversight as posted on the official forums, but once again Aeralik took the opposite way to fix things than most would have liked.

as opposed to reducing the stupidly big size of the box, or the reimplementing of the no-range feature of our epic on CA's


So I don't know how excited I am going to be once the solution for ammo or whatever else they fix with us actually comes about... I would sarcastically say some bad way they could do it, but then it will be a suggestion.

A T8 bazkul would be a wonderful solution, and I almost am willing to bet there is one on trakanon which is why they are delaying so much on revealing everything, cause its been there all along but nobody has gotten it.

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