Dji, I respect how you seem to play; as if you don't want to experiment. You do what works for you but do not want or need to do it better or quicker. However, your points, albeit representitive of your play style, reflect nothing to do with the Dark Meteor being overpowered. Just because you, in your subjective manner, would prefer to use Daylight Scar, does not mean Dark Meteor does not make it obselete, or that a ranger would not be fine with just a Heaven Striker and a Dark Meteor AND be able to do better than those who bother with other weapons.
Now, regardless of how you play, when you tackle these kinds of decisions, you need to take the role of someone who WANTS to break the game. There will always be someone who is all for making things as easy as possible, to farm and take over whatever economy exists. If you put yourself in the mind of someone with that desire, Dark Meteor allows you to finish runs quicker, with half or less effort than someone who is fumbling through their quick swap to find the perfect weapon for the perfect enemy. In the end, Dark Meteor, regardless of what you attempt to make a point out of, will out DPS practically everything; and if you didnt boost Dark Flow (which is a silly decision imo) it would probably out DPS that since it hits multiple targets; and if you need single target damage, a Charge Vulcan or Heaven Striker will do you just fine.
At the moment, downloading and installing this server is pointless if to be the best ranger I need to focus all of my energy on finding a Dark Meteor, otherwise everyone with one, regardless of how good they are, are better and have a huge advantage over me.
PS: SunnyD, stop trying to Antagonise. It's clear you have no clue how PSO works, mechanic wise, and no respect for its players. You're rude, and if you attempted to post facts or opinions like Dji did, maybe this thread would feel less uneducated.
Since you just decided to ignore my very well versed post I will add some other things.
There are some enemies that no matter what you use, Demons is better. The high HP enemies like Dorphon, Gibbles and Girtablublu are better taken down with a multi-hit demons weapon like SOF, Demon Mechs (They can be donated for, not the reduced Photons) or a Bringers Rifle. This is one of the exceptions I was talking about where there are very very few enemies in the game that you will need a specific gun for. However, in terms of DPS it STILL does not matter, since using a DPS type weapon on those enemies is not time effective.