Ranger- Am I a glutton for punishment?

[Tewaz]

Play on Red.

Rangers and Paladins are great pvp classes.

[Somekid123]

Fyi spirit of eagle is luclin

[Itching]

Blah Luclin =\

[Yinikren]

Rangers are pretty gear dependant, but put out some nice dps and fantastic utility when well played. Your heals are adequate for keeping yourself and casters healthy in non-tanking situations and taking pressure off your healers. You have excellent tools for snap agro and ranger dots, of course, stack with your melee dps.

My ranger is 48, and with the clicky sky cloak and a CoF, I sit at permanent 86% haste whether solo or not. I average 35-40 dps in GWF (from a Lupine Dagger proc) with a Fayguard Parrying Dagger mainhand and a Crystalline Short Sword offhand. Considering an epic rogue or monk of my level is only doing 3-5 more dps, I would much rather play the ranger and have the utility to do almost anything I need.

[Itching]

What are some pieces of gear I should pick up to start out my ranger? I have a decent stock pile of platinum from my potion selling days.

[iruinedyourday]

Mithral selves/greeves? Tree weave? Mithral BP ( i hate non plate so id go with mithral)

Dwarven workboots? herobracer? Those +15 str gauntlets?

I would just go all STR for those deeps, but I am not as good at minmaxing as other peeps here, just like the idea of gearing up a ranger right now.

Shame cant wear a chestplate of the dark flame cus that looks cool mixed with mithral..

anything plate/str is what I would do [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] hammerhead helm.. oh man so fun to gear up a preplaner ranger! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Itching]

Dex not worth it for leveling at all? Just focus straight on STR? And how expensive is a TS bow or a Rain Caller?

[Yinikren]

Ignore dex, all it really affects are weapon procrates and bow crits. STR all the way.

Rain caller is about 4k. Just look at the magelo in my sig and buy/quest all of it. Use common sense where needed, I.e. Don't have a CoF, get an HBC for your back slot and an FBSS for haste, etc.

[Itching]

Good to know about DEX, I'll see what I can do to purchase a few twink items here.

[fadetree]

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

Does the armor limitation (med only) for Half Elf make them not as viable to play? Or does that not matter as much for twinking/kunark/velious gear?

As far as I know, it doesn't matter. But then, I've never played a half-elf because they look like they all ought to be named nancy.

For gear, I always go HP, STA, AC, DEX. STR is ok to swap out for dex, but you'll get a lot of STR without trying whereas DEX is somwhat scarcer. Dex gets important later when you are trying to proc things. Its true that STA is kind of useless when you are low level, whereas later you'll be very glad you have as much STA as possible.

Rangers get some badass procs. Get a Silver Swiftblade for your early levels. Get a Woodsman's staff as soon as you can, thats end game DPS right there. Get a Swarmcaller as you near 45. All three are pretty cheap.

And bring your sense of humor, you WILL get made fun of and be the butt of endless Ranger jokes. It's usually all in good fun, and if the occasional person isn't well then screw them.