Patch Notes, Sunday July 24th, 2011

[Aadill]

Pretty much. Archery was a joke until AAs. Hilariously enough I just read a bunch of rangers from live crying that their 50 damage arrows are expendable and no longer allow them to have an endless supply via Endless Quiver.

Boohoo.

[Troy]

Cool, 26 days /played wasted. Thanks for the info.

[YendorLootmonkey]

Originally Posted by Troy [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Cool, 26 days /played wasted. Thanks for the info.

You were gonna painfully arrow-kite solo until 60 and then what?

[Troy]

Originally Posted by YendorLootmonkey [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You were gonna painfully arrow-kite solo until 60 and then what?

It was just nice to have something semi-productive to do when LFG, i.e. 90% of the time. Or when interested in farming semi-decently for iksar bp/mask.

I never played a ranger in live and archery was incredibly slow here already but at least sort of bearable so I figured it was already classic. If I'd known that it was WAY WAY WAY WAY better than classic and due to be nerfed, I'd have quit the ranger awhile ago. I suppose it's my own fault for not doing the research.

[YendorLootmonkey]

Originally Posted by Troy [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It was just nice to have something semi-productive to do when LFG, i.e. 90% of the time. Or when interested in farming semi-decently for iksar bp/mask.

I never played a ranger in live and archery was incredibly slow here already but at least sort of bearable so I figured it was already classic. If I'd known that it was WAY WAY WAY WAY better than classic and due to be nerfed, I'd have quit the ranger awhile ago. I suppose it's my own fault for not doing the research.

Well, you can wait for Velious when a lot more soloing options open up for rangers with Panic Animal. But to be fair, rangers didn't have it THIS bad getting groups back in 1999-2000.

[Koa Bosk]

I am really hating this new patch with the Archery update it makes no sense at all. I have an Archery skill of 130 and since the update I have gotten no crits and I hit one out of about 10 shots. This is ridiculous, if I missed this much with my 1 handed slash I wouldn't be killing anything and die against light blue mobs. Some Fix.

[xxxbeinxxx]

The MR for juggs now seems rediculously high. Way higher than it needs to be. After unresitable tash/malo other spells are nearly always resisted. Prior to this patch I could land on juggs roughly 25%-30% of the time. Now they are basicly immune to magic. This is not correct as i remember it, I also researched forum threads from 00 / 01 with other people supporting my memory that after tash slow would land reliably.

http://eqbeastiary.allakhazam.com/search.shtml?id=4570

[Razdeline]

I remember Rangers in ToV, during Velious, doing rediculous amounts of bow damage with Trueshot Discipline.... Hope this gives you guys something to look forward to.

[YendorLootmonkey]

Originally Posted by Razdeline [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I remember Rangers in ToV, during Velious, doing rediculous amounts of bow damage with Trueshot Discipline.... Hope this gives you guys something to look forward to.

It wasn't ridiculous. You may be thinking after the EQ/AM3 AAs we got in Luclin... then, yes, archery damage was nothing to be sneered at. Rogues and monks fought to get it nerfed for years.

[Aadill]

we actually had a taste of permanent trueshot discipline from this patch. it got fixed because, well, it was wrong.

also it was fairly mediocre for most rangers, but it was nice to do DPS at range.