Rangers on RED

[Pexutin]

Hey! in my theory, rangers are pretty neat in pvp... They can do all sorts of stuff and SoW themselfs and track might be very useful. Was thinking of rolling one on red. And bow might be pretty nice, specially in velious pvp. Am i totally not right?
I might roll one, if its not too popular on red

thoughts? tips? Don't just say rangers suck.

1. Are rangers popular on R99 ?
2. How they do in pvp? (current)

thanks for answers

[phacemeltar]

rangers blow

[Smedy]

rangers blow cause they can't be halflings, allow halfling rangers for maximum nirgon rustle & classicness #screwclassic

[Galacticus]

Hey! in my theory, rangers are pretty neat in pvp... They can do all sorts of stuff and SoW themselfs and track might be very useful. Was thinking of rolling one on red. And bow might be pretty nice, specially in velious pvp. Am i totally not right?
I might roll one, if its not too popular on red

thoughts? tips? Don't just say rangers suck.

1. Are rangers popular on R99 ?
2. How they do in pvp? (current)

thanks for answers

They are alright. The problem with them is that they lack a good weapon/weapons. Once you get epics you jump up on the pvp scale. Sow is nice, but you can always get a sow potion or ask a friend. Track is fun, if it works, sometimes it bugs out. Bow is nice but only if you get the really good one from plane of sky, again the problem with the lack of available weapons.

Rangers are like less powerful war,monk,rogue and when you are leveling up you may just wonder why you aren't just playing one of them because they do more damage and have better weapons and have fd/mend/flying kick or backstab/hide/sneak or lots of hp/crits/crippling blow.

Also they level slower as a hybrid.

[Super Hater]

They are great for low levels. They own at pvp low levels because of snare and the ability to track noobs. After around level 20, you will see your pvp value deteriorate until you are at the very bottom of the food chain when it comes to evenly geared pvp.

Rangers pretty much sucked pvp until Luclin.

[Tassador]

Rangers are good but if you are asking this you have about a 1% chance to start a ranger and keep it as a main. Best thing to do is level a Mage or Druid and use ranger unless you got a perm group that happens to need a ranger. Someone should make a thread which explains starting on red in detail.

[Agatha]

same thing i said to you in ooc, ranger a terrible class until velious, and velious is 8-12 months away IF WE ARE LUCKY

[Youlath]

rangers still terrible in velious

trueshot damage negated by moving = 50% bow damage

[no chewie dont]

Ppl said sks were terrible too now everyone has one

[Colgate]

ranger is far and away the worst pvp class unless you can get your hands on a windstriker, of which there has been only 6 or 7 obtained in the past 2 years of kunark

[heartbrand]

Rangers still better than casters. No reason a ranger should ever die 1v1 to an int caster. Just kite them around ezpz.

[Softcore PK]

Rangers are great in pvp but Smedy has a point. Server needs shortie hybrids :(

[no chewie dont]

Only thing server needs is _______ ___ and a _______

[Softcore PK]

Also gnome SKs.

[Eslade]

and soulbinders, and pok books.

[no chewie dont]

go play live

[Eslade]

and mounts and focus items.

[no chewie dont]

wut bout AAs and translocators

[Eslade]

gotta draw a line somewhere, aa's aren't classic.

[Kergan]

Should be in translocators imo, just make them sometimes go to a city, sometimes go to hythloth lvl 4 know what I'm sayin'?

[no chewie dont]

Nope no clue

[Kergan]

Chewie you didn't play UO? Holy shit man that game was MADE for you in the classic era.

[Fame]

Few random notes on ranger I played on occasion leveling up and then for a few months in the 30-42ish area

Rangers fun til 40s, dunno if I would go 46+

Track is AWESOME

Even raincaller will chase a scrub outta the swamp

Woodsman isn't too expensive and hits like a truck

Def pick up a few sets of gear pve, pvp, just a few item swap can make a big difference jac rings and wolf bracers ect.

If you're quick on pumice and do buffs right you can even risk less MR gear for str on some setups

If you do get the dex fever just roll with it till you learn yourself, it's the only way. I'd go str. Couple stun clubs for the dex build can be fun on gaters, but you have to have your ui setup to make the changes fast.

Get jboots for the fuck of it, there will be times.

Arrows are a bastard but worth their weight in gold on the long kites

Flame lick yourself before jumping enchanters or bards

Again, track is awesome, it does bug occasionally but you can usually camp it and knowing where someone is roughly before they see you is more than half the battle on red99

[Rettj]

Translocators r great way to empower travel without need to 2box

[Ames who?]

Ppl said sks were terrible too now everyone has one

said no one ever

[Colgate]

p sure i recall having a debate with heartbrand where he was claiming shadowknights are terrible and would lose to a warrior 100% of the time 1v1

[Ames who?]

http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140301173225/degrassi/images/c/c6/103875-chris-tucker-facepalm-gif-Frid-GSTI.gif

[Youlath]

Only thing server needs is clean water and a nice lady that bakes a lot

[Technique]

Chewie you didn't play UO? Holy shit man that game was MADE for you in the classic era.He'd be the chump PK who never left the Britain graveyard.

[no chewie dont]

never heard of u tho

[Clark]

rangers blow cause they can't be halflings, allow halfling rangers for maximum nirgon rustle & classicness #screwclassic

lol