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halfer777
11-24-2015, 05:32 PM
Howdy y'all. I'll cut to the chase; how much money will it take to twink a ranger up? I currently have a 41 enchanter, and i've been having a great time multitasking this game on money spots that give any amount of exp. (i milked the sister's island in OOT until i couldn't get any more experience from them, and bought myself Jboots; one of many childhood dreams achieved. I love clickies!)

These days i'm charm soloing halfling guards for their spears. Deputy Budo is quite the force to be reckoned with! All this enchanting is making me thirst for the fun of those nice big melee numbers, however. I already bought a Silver Switftblade (http://wiki.project1999.com/Silver_Swiftblade) and a Runed Oak Bow (http://wiki.project1999.com/Runed_Oak_Bow), still hunting for that Springwood Stave (http://wiki.project1999.com/Springwood_Stave) until i can somehow haggle down the price of a Woodsman Staff (http://wiki.project1999.com/Woodsman%27s_Staff).

So i have weapons covered, as far as i can tell. Any more helpful suggestions that don't cost over 2k would be well-received.

What's an approximate amount of platinum i should expect to spend on a twinking adventure for a ranger? just so i'm decent, i don't have infinite platinum reserves, although i sort of do, it will just take a loooong time.

And just to pre-emptively strike at the statement, I am going to be a ranger for roleplaying purposes, as well as snaring the hell out of everything. I really like the druid line of spells, and what better time to play a hybrid than when the hybrid penalty is removed?

Thanks for whatever suggestions you have!

Yinikren
11-24-2015, 05:44 PM
Twinking a ranger isn't so much an input of platinum as it is effort. At lower levels, you're fine with a fungi, some good ratio weps and ivy etched/star jewelry in other slots. By the time you hit 46, you'll need to quest your clickable sky haste cloak and farm a fayguard parrying dagger (9/17) from HS. Its the best ratio weapon you can easily get a hold of before epics, though velious may shake things up a bit.

halfer777
11-24-2015, 09:44 PM
ahh, okay. I just met a 19 ranger today who happened to be sitting in a full set of Ry'Garr chainmail. He taught me about the Green Jade Broadsword (http://wiki.project1999.com/Green_Jade_Broadsword) and the Sarnak Skullsplitter (http://wiki.project1999.com/Sarnak_Skullsplitter), both very affordable weapons...

Being somewhat seasoned, I think i'll be fine with just setting up some nice ratio weapons and letting that ranger earn her own armor. Of course uncle enchanter will help with some of the more expensive things =)

I'll ask some guildies (im not in a guild yet) about how to go about with that clickable sky haste cloak. I never made it into planar gear on live, i was too young and unaware of the power that a community brings.

Here's a solid question: What are my options for wearable haste? FBSS is 6k it looks like, dragonborn is 7k? What's the cheapest haste thing out there that i should keep an eye out for?

DarthMartigan
11-24-2015, 10:18 PM
silver chitin hand wraps: 5k

Yinikren
11-24-2015, 10:26 PM
SCHW Has stats, so that's always a plus and let's you put something like a TBB on your waist slot for more strength.

The ranger sky cloak requires a drop from Keeper of Souls and a few earlier islands.

blondeattk
11-24-2015, 10:37 PM
`At lower levels, you're fine with a fungi,`

/facepalm

so indicative of the spoilt brats running around on this server.

Its clear from the OP that the lad doesnt have that sort of dosh to twink with.

halfer777
11-25-2015, 12:30 AM
yeaaaaah i wasn't really gonna comment on the fungi remark. Just taking whats useful and moving right along lol

Fanguru
11-25-2015, 06:57 AM
Usual +55 hp rings are always a safe 500p investment for a new melee.
Orc fang earrings from ry'gorrs should also be cheap and decent.

Dwarven work boots, mithril legs and arms are much cheaper since Velious. They should be around 250p, 900p and 1k respectively.
I would prioritize a haste item though.

halfer777
11-25-2015, 09:15 AM
cool, Fanguru. that's more along the lines of my budget, that 19 ranger i met actually did mention the mithril armor. I had forgotten about the +55hp earrings. Thanks!

Jimjam
11-25-2015, 11:31 AM
It's 55hp for the fingers, orc fang earrings are a separate (but also nice item).

blondeattk
11-25-2015, 11:40 AM
`mithril legs and arms are much cheaper since Velious. `

aside from the plate look, isnt it more plat efficient to go for rygorr?

even, i guess tolans arms are half the price. Not so fashion victim maybe?!

Fanguru
11-25-2015, 11:50 AM
Tolan's arms have no stats and a useless clicky.

But yeah, Ry'gorr armour is very good. I am not sure about exact prices though.

Man0warr
11-25-2015, 12:15 PM
Those Crystal gauntlets from Velks are pretty cheap too and amazing stats.

Jimjam
11-25-2015, 01:18 PM
You have some fairly easy options available to you if you are open to questing too.

On my ranger I use 2x cougar claw earrings*
2 x 55hp rings
ivy etched tunic, sleeves and legs. Orc impaler ranged**
hero bracer**
direwolf fur cloak*
iksar scaled gloves***
crested helm, dwarven work boots****

* (quest/drop from a 30+ ranger xp solo spot)
** probably soloable, for the steamfont parts you can probably get a rogue epic farmer to help you if you struggle
***(common rot at warslik's woods goblin fort, often given away)
****probably soloable by your enc, might even still be xp. Or low 30s groupable

All easily attainable, and more fun that sitting in EC imho

Cecily
11-25-2015, 11:09 PM
`At lower levels, you're fine with a fungi,`

/facepalm

so indicative of the spoilt brats running around on this server.

Its clear from the OP that the lad doesnt have that sort of dosh to twink with.

Lol no shit. It's not so much about platinum on ranger, it's more about having the most possibly expensive items a ranger can wear. If you have all that stuff, you can get by without any plat just fine.

blondeattk
11-26-2015, 02:10 AM
`If you have all that stuff, you can get by without any plat just fine.`

if you have stuff...you dont need (to buy)stuff?

thanks! would never have entered my mind in a million years...


Your thinking like some one in a raid guild; best in slot mentality. Seemed to me this thread was more about twinkage for casuals....?
Given the class of the lads main, I doubt he does have much gear he can transfer eg from silk to chain class.

He needs to decide if hes gonna be a fill in tank in grps (go for ac) or solo bow kite (dex).

In practise the latter dont work well on p99, esp under L50.

Solo melee with ranger is very hard work, needs at least one major item of gear to not be a bare foot pilgramage to Mount Kailasha ! eg fungi or mid range+ haste item.

in summary....roll a necro.

Jimjam
11-26-2015, 04:43 AM
Solo ranger is easy for the first 40 levels.

200pp is all you'll need to spend to get to 40. A suit of banded and a 100pp ECmart weapon will suffice. Obviously more stuff is better, but not needed.

This is especially true now ranger has panic animal and sow at a much lower level.

Personally I went for decent, but easily attainable, AC. I used Str as a tie breaker. Probably shows in the gear list I posted earlier.

vouss
11-26-2015, 10:59 PM
Does gear even matter on blue:

halfer777
11-27-2015, 09:37 PM
You have some fairly easy options available to you if you are open to questing too.

On my ranger I use 2x cougar claw earrings*
2 x 55hp rings
ivy etched tunic, sleeves and legs. Orc impaler ranged**
hero bracer**
direwolf fur cloak*
iksar scaled gloves***
crested helm, dwarven work boots****

* (quest/drop from a 30+ ranger xp solo spot)
** probably soloable, for the steamfont parts you can probably get a rogue epic farmer to help you if you struggle
***(common rot at warslik's woods goblin fort, often given away)
****probably soloable by your enc, might even still be xp. Or low 30s groupable

All easily attainable, and more fun that sitting in EC imho

This is what I was looking for, as a filthy casual. Anyone who wants me to go roll a necro, thats like saying, just waste your time pursuing a business degree so you can be the CEO of your company BEFORE you make art/actualize yourself as a human being with agency in your communities.

Thanks so much for the information, guys. The armor is what i need help with, because i see Druids get stuff like this Brown Chitin Protector (http://wiki.project1999.com/Brown_Chitin_Protector) which is nuts good and nuts cheap. Are there any ranger-only armor pieces like this I should be aware of? it seems like (and would make sense that) rangers get ranger-only weapons like the Swarmcaller (http://wiki.project1999.com/Swarmcaller). But I wouldn't know! I'm ignorant of any armor out there.

Ry'gorr seems to be a really good choice. Although mithril wasn't that bad either; i saw the chest piece going for 300pp the other day. Seems pretty nice. But i am ready and willing to quest for gear too, in order to earn it. I managed to solo the iksar illusion spell quest, and the incandescent wand quest. Holy cow was getting that silver wand a journey i'll never forget. And im damn proud of myself for having achieved it!

Cecily
11-27-2015, 11:40 PM
`If you have all that stuff, you can get by without any plat just fine.`

if you have stuff...you dont need (to buy)stuff?

http://i3.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/012/132/thatsthejoke.jpg

Cecily
11-27-2015, 11:44 PM
"Affordable ranger twink" is a contradiction in terms. The whole point of a ranger twink is to show that your main is so great at farming that you can afford to twink out a ranger to the point of being effective.

Unfortunately this is.. mostly true. You're gonna have a better time with a fungi, but id hardly consider that affordable. I'm a rogue main (poor) and I eventually made an amazing ranger. Do what I did and wait awhile. Or enjoy the challenge.

Freakish
11-28-2015, 03:21 PM
Cecily...lol

blondeattk
11-29-2015, 03:14 AM
This is what I was looking for, as a filthy casual. Anyone who wants me to go roll a necro, thats like saying, just waste your time pursuing a business degree so you can be the CEO of your company BEFORE you make art/actualize yourself as a human being with agency in your communities.


yeah but thats what folk do.....

make a lvl 30/34 dru to taxi and make pp then make a real class after saving up 3 or 4 k+

used my druid to farm the parts for the totemic helm, 3 or 4 times. used 2 and sold off 2 for ubber platz.

EQ...makes you dirty !

gildor
11-29-2015, 01:22 PM
Just get a silver swiftblade until 30, and then a springwood stave, ...store the rest of your cash for haste..I suggest farming high keep guards starting at 30 and you have your haste in no time

Spyder73
11-30-2015, 02:58 PM
Fungi = 65k

Cloak of flame = 75k

Woodsman staff = 9k

Everything else is optional really, could be naked with these 3 items and probably wreck. Add in BS cheap items and armor and your set.

....so, to properly think your ranger, it only costs around 150k, what a bargain!!!!

Man0warr
11-30-2015, 03:17 PM
Don't need a CoF, FBSS or CCHW are good enough.

I'd throw in 55 hp rings though, most cost effecient item for the stats it gives in the game.

Yinikren
11-30-2015, 08:03 PM
But that cof plus a sky cloak is 96% self buffed haste before epics!

To be fair, it is pretty baller dps but any haste is better than none.

halfer777
12-02-2015, 01:17 PM
"I'm a rogue main (poor) and I eventually made an amazing ranger. Do what I did and wait awhile. Or enjoy the challenge."

I believe I will enjoy the challenge. All the items that don't really matter, I would like to roleplay earning those items from the dungeons i would like to level up in.

So here's what I know now. Taxi service via dial-a-port would rule. I've lived the druid life already... but I haven't done the wiz-biz.... I would love to make a wizard taxi. That would be a fresh new perspective for me. And as far as ranger thinking goes, I'd like to thank everyone that participated here; i think i know exactly where i stand between somehow getting 75k for a cloak of flames (75k is more than i have ever owned, probably altogether in all my iterations of EQ lol) and enjoying the challenge of a Ranger who is less-than-perfect.

In fact, i'm kind of waiting for a petition against someone who stole a wizard only staff i was looking forward to using. (they stole it during a x-fer in EC.) it was only worth 100pp, but it's the principal of the matter...

Thank you everyone who responded to me. This is probably the longest thread i've ever made on a forum, glad to see there's a healthy amount of debate around rangers and what they mean. I didn't know i would be representing my ability to think a ranger out (think? twink?) to all the big dogs who have fungi's and stuff.

Ultimate result; I just don't want to be the ranger who casts gate all the time in your group because he thought dual wielding wurmslayers would "be cool", lol. Looks like just normal chainmail would be a great place to start, and upgrade little bits here and there as i earn the pp naturally.

blondeattk
12-03-2015, 02:24 AM
I would love to make a wizard taxi. That would be a fresh new perspective for me.

/chuckle

they both deal with rude customers, its not gonna be earth shatteringly different!

Malone88
01-06-2016, 07:49 PM
Affordable Weaps:
Sword of Skyfire
Crystalline Short Sword

Your enchanter might be able to solo Ry-Gorr fort (for sure
could duo with priest class) to farm Orc Fang Earrings and
several pieces of Ry-Gorr Armor.

Need haste item. Just buy FBSS. Prices should be dropping with Velious out.

Landael
01-07-2016, 11:15 PM
Does this exist yet? http://wiki.project1999.com/Fellspine%27s_Tail
Seems like a pretty sweet ranja gun :)

shooteneq1
02-23-2016, 03:28 PM
with panic animal you dont need to be overly twinked to be effective if you want to solo. back in the day my main was a 50 pally, i eventually sold my stuff and started a ranger right as velious came out, so about this time frame. I pretty much soloed into my mid to upper 50s just using snare/panic animal and with mediocre gear. lets be honest as a ranger your going to be doing alot of soloing anyway as most people dont want you in their groups. Velious is great for this as theres animals in most of the zones and they are still close to places where people are grouping so long travel to group isnt an issue.

Jimjam
02-23-2016, 03:58 PM
Whats a good spot in 40s? I tried TT but a lot of the animals there had huge hp. The Raging Gorillas were tolerable and that was about it. Even with crappy weapons facetanking haze golems in CoM seemed better

shooteneq1
02-23-2016, 09:07 PM
im about to figure out that myself. i have a 40 ranger and need to start figuring it out. i spent most my time in velious as there was plenty of animals there, doing wolfs, cougars, griffins and mammoths and stuff. i need to head back out there and see where the best spot is again. i need to rebuy gear though as i stripped him down before i quit and i just came back.

Yinikren
02-27-2016, 03:21 PM
Fearkite in EW from 40 until 52 or so.