Ranger or SK?

[abysalwhip2008]

Currently have an epic 57 ranger and 25 ish shadowknight want to get one of them to 60 for general plat farming such as to farm hill giants goblin skins and lower guk which one would suit me best ranger obviously much closer to 60 prob higher dps but sk has fd any thoughts appreciated!

[Eisai]

Serious? Lol

[Snaggles]

I would level the melee you would rather play and get another farm class. The gear a pally or sk needs to touch a charm class or shaman is quite high. The SK and pally have methods to bypass trash mobs while a ranger (in most cases) or a Shaman do not.

Outside general fun and raid functionality, a ranger really only shines over the knights when you can do do stuff outdoor, usually with a bow. Anything you can snare and your index finger can survive, you can as well.

For droga I use my mage. Hill giants aren’t the plat camp they once were. A never would be better for most stuff. An enchanter better for 99% the game.

[Snaggles]

Typo: “never” = “necro”

[abysalwhip2008]

I have a necro as well was just trying to find an efficient way to farm the coin needed to get good gear for the sk but after reading your post it sounds like using the ranger to do so would be doable but difficult. Necro is 39 atm

[Snaggles]

The necro can make you good plat in HK while leveling to 44. Hit Grobb for like 45-52/3 and back to HK. Sell all the swords.

Your necro is pretty close to the point it will rival the ranger. With the 49 pet and splurt you can put down guards quite efficiently. Eventually head to WL and clean up Geos.

If you want a SK or Ranger I get it. They just need great gear to be as viable. A necro with a stack of bone chips and no gear will still cruise through greens and blues.

[Jimjam]

With their +13 regen, ac/hp buffs and damage shields 57+ rangers can really churn through mid level mobs. They also do well at the Forager cycle in Trakanon’s teeth and can handle frenzy spiders or frog ghouls, which is handy for infinite +5 regen bps and 20% hastes on your future alts. Very helpful to have the PoSky haste clicky in addition to the epics though. I’ve not found fungi necessary.

[abysalwhip2008]

My ranger has epics and fungi was just seeing what I could do with him at 57 to 60 plat farm wise. This is the highest I've ever had a ranger

[Jimjam]

My ranger has epics and fungi was just seeing what I could do with him at 57 to 60 plat farm wise. This is the highest I've ever had a ranger

Yes, I read your OP. I replied with what I did on my ranger 55+ to provide experience based suggestions on what you should be able to do to farm some plat or desirable (liquid) items while including context of my own ranger’s set up.

Expanding, forager cycle has a few good loots actually. The iksar hide mask is pretty sought after too. Can walk away with 5 figures of easily flipped for pp items in not too much time. Velks has a fee other items you can solo to sell or twink, like the silver chitin wristbands.

Did you not find my answer helpful to your aim of farming with a character?

[abysalwhip2008]

Your post was helpful I like the idea of a ranger looting drops as his strength is maxed with self buffs and sometimes a vender or bank is far from a hunt so carrying lots of loot on a necromancer eventually catches up to you i.e lots of plat or swords I believe the banker in hk can be accessed with fd though assuming it doesn't fail!

[Jimjam]

Don’t even need to fd to bank vs a kos banker on this server. They’ll let you access your vault in the middle of smacking you up!

[Duik]

Don’t even need to fd to bank vs a kos banker on this server. They’ll let you access your vault in the middle of smacking you up!

Which is a pleasant change, usually bankers screw you over behind several layers of obfuscation.

[wagorf]

serious question? i dont think that's "farming plat"....more like collecting change with sk or ranger even with lvl 60 and raid gears

[Gozuk]

Sounds like your Ranger is in a great spot already for what you're looking to do. I've honestly enjoyed mine most just killing Seafuries and what not for spare change

[Snaggles]

serious question? i dont think that's "farming plat"....more like collecting change with sk or ranger even with lvl 60 and raid gears

Killing stuff for vendor loot isn’t efficient per hour, but the exchange system is great (it’s literally farming plat). No sitting in EC and talking to players to sell stuff for plat.

I still wouldn’t take my ranger to droga though. I haven’t had a few empty bags for about a decade.

[skulldudes]

rangers shred in droga, and if u ever manage to get a tolan bp ur made in the shade

[Salaryman]

Killing stuff for vendor loot isn’t efficient per hour, but the exchange system is great (it’s literally farming plat). No sitting in EC and talking to players to sell stuff for plat.

I still wouldn’t take my ranger to droga though. I haven’t had a few empty bags for about a decade.

talking to "players" on the carebear n00b blue/green pve servers where theres nothing to do because theres no pvp so you just sit in ec all day is infact the worst thing you can do.

[Snaggles]

talking to "players" on the carebear n00b blue/green pve servers where theres nothing to do because theres no pvp so you just sit in ec all day is infact the worst thing you can do.

At least we aren’t as clueless as this ranger shield nerd

https://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=437049

[Duik]

Nature Knight to the rescue!

[jolanar]

serious question? i dont think that's "farming plat"....more like collecting change with sk or ranger even with lvl 60 and raid gears

People are really bad at calculating plat per hour. I would wager Droga is much closer, or even better, in plat per hour to their preferred item farm once all time factors are considered.

[Gozuk]

talking to "players" on the carebear n00b blue/green pve servers where theres nothing to do because theres no pvp so you just sit in ec all day is infact the worst thing you can do.

To scratch that itch, I enjoy playing actual PvP games.

[Ekco]

To scratch that itch, I enjoy playing actual PvP games.

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[Salaryman]

I pvp in this game, so did the creator of the continent and expansion of Kunark.

What did you do? You n00bs never created anything.

[Ekco]

I pvp in this game, so did the creator of the continent and expansion of Kunark.

What did you do? You n00bs never created anything.

yeah, and he worked on pantheon which is also dogshit, i'm sensing a pattern.

>what did you do?
played the pvp game that actually mattered, when it mattered.

you act like every game dev on the planet hasn't sucked off Eve online at GDC for the last 20 years. literally fucking nobody talks about a shoehorned in nonsense ruleset some drug addicts made in 1999

hope this helps.

[Goregasmic]

People are really bad at calculating plat per hour. I would wager Droga is much closer, or even better, in plat per hour to their preferred item farm once all time factors are considered.

Droga is solid. Made like 1000pp with an animation pet in like 2 hours when I was more getting my bearings around the zone than in full farm mode. In efficiency mode with better bags and not being kos to the outpost I could do a lot better. Melees and mage/necros probably make a killing there. Selling earrings/idols/skins probably net you a fair bit more too. You just gotta like that type of playstyle though.

Sol A is probably decent money too with the added benefit of 2 vendors in zone. Not sure how much the bricks sell for since the last patch though.

In the same vein CC orcs probably work too now since you have to vendor large bricks and blocks, with the added benefit of a neutral bank in zone. You could also sell small bricks and small pieces on the market but probably not worth it if you don't have buyers lined up.

Never did a real test but pretty sure lower guk undead basement is solid too if you can handle it.

The hill giants are garbage imo. In classic you had enough HGs to sustain 2-3 partial groups and people would go LFG there all the time. Now the spot barely sustains like 2 players. It's pretty much a dad camp now unless you can get it all for yourself.

Probably not the most lucrative spots compared to some cash camps but then again not everyone can handle HS south/east, SG or Seb solo even with the right classes, let's be honest. But the again if you're in chardok you can just kill your named and go AFK for 20 mins while the other spots I mentioned need active play.

[shovelquest]

OP chose ranger right?

Ranger is the right choice for this "chill and kill mobs for plat" over SK or even necro IMO.

If you want a necro to kill higher level things your ranger can't, by all means.

BUt if you're killing green mobs for items, ranger all the way.

Not only will you dispatch the mobs faster with the press of 1 button, which is important when chilling. You will be able to track multiple camps easily in the same zone. So that's nice.

Also lightning swords are awesome and so is a ranger just enjoying the cool norrathian breeze.

[Trelaboon]

There are ways to make plat on just about any character. Of course some will be faster than others, and things like Paineel guards and HHK guards can often be contested, plus they don’t give exp, but there’s always a way.

I restarted fairly recently on the green server and had to build up from scratch. I am a 56 Ranger and when I need to farm enough for an item I just hit up HHK, farm guards for a bit and then buy whatever I’m after. I’m not rolling in plat, not wearing a fungi etc, but my gear is decent and I’ve managed to find the majority of things I want that are semi-affordable without much issue (Tolan’s bracer for 7k etc)

As others said, Droga can be really good, but it’s not as good on a Ranger without a Tolan’s BP because vendoring takes way too long, even with a hammer. There might be a way to sneak vendor in the outpost though I just haven’t really tried.

[Jimjam]

LoIO has a vendor which isn’t greedy.

I found forager cycle in Trakanon’s Teeth a good spot for ranger if you are happy to sell iksar hide mask, ceremonial iksar chestplate, etc. There are a few nice no drop items so maybe park a future alt there?

You may be able to do frenzied in velks too, but even at 60 I still sometimes die there.