Rangers, how much fun is bow kiting?

[Daywolf]

Bow kiting? not so much. I tend to use root instead. First you need a bow with a high ratio, at least .333 to start imo, not a first strike weapon. Then you want to have a dot memorized (or DoT item at higher levels). Dots do more damage to the mob if the mob is stationary. Now you need to find a mob with a low enough resist that it'll root for a given length of time on avg, pref as long as the DoT lasts. Usually this isn't for red con [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Arrows, simply the cheapest you can make is all you need, which are really cheap and remain stacked until needed, saving space, and something to craft while you med.

Find your mob, drop your root, drop your dot/s. Let fly your arrows as you back pedal to furthest range, which isn't too far with cheap arrows but far enough to reroot a charging mob. Rinse and repeat until either dead or you bring the mob to a low enough health to melee it down the rest of the way w/o you wasting too much health. If successful, you may have health and mana to keep going for a while, from one mob to the next.

[lecompte]

Not fun at all but there is a bizarro sense of accomplishment killing a red giant at lower levels.

Then I read back and someone else already mentioned this. Ranger just isn't a solo class, sadly. I do remember being to solo quite a bit better on live, with worse gear, for some reason -- course, that was also velious.

[dartaniun]

Bow kiting to kill a mob is largely a waste of time, good idea to lower it's hp to a comfortable percentage so that you can finish it off with melee/spells. Post lv 50 when rangers get 2x dmg bonus on non-rooted/non-moving mobs then it's worth while. Problem for that to work is you have to find somebody else to stand there and take the dmg from the mob.

Rangers get a few more options to solo in velious, main option comes from the fear animal line of spells.

[Whirled]

Get one of these http://wiki.project1999.com/Runed_Oak_Bow
I gave 1 of these^away about a month back while in SK hoping for Quillmane to spawn.
Mix-match some good range fletched arrows with regular vendor ones
One can easily go through hundreds of plat making arrows so find a good dmg/range combo & stick with making those ... or send me a /tell.
Fletching 170

[Daywolf]

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

Get one of these http://wiki.project1999.com/Runed_Oak_Bow
I gave 1 of these^away about a month back while in SK hoping for Quillmane to spawn.
Mix-match some good range fletched arrows with regular vendor ones
One can easily go through hundreds of plat making arrows so find a good dmg/range combo & stick with making those ... or send me a /tell.
Fletching 170

Or just buy one of my darkwoods [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] The ratio is a little lower, but has a little better range. Since there is no auto, a little difference in ratio doesn't matter as much as range. But for like root-n-shoot it works perfectly. Otherwise I'd get my hands on a trueshot longbow and go use it for the rain caller quest if you have your ranger at the level. With a 200 range, works good for kiting. Don't expect them to be easy to find though, there doesn't seem to be many people on this server with high fetching to make good bows including trueshots. Low demand and a lot of time and ton of plats to raise.

[scythic]

Bow kiting is by far the most boring way to kill something. 45 Delay bow, hit for 4. Miss. Miss. Miss. Hit for 17. Miss. Crit for 70 (this is to get your hopes up.) Miss. Miss. Hit for 11. Miss. Miss. Miss.
Times this by a hundred.

[Colgate]

bow kiting was better on live because there wasn't the 0.25 modifier on accuracy that this server has

[Cecily]

Is that something that needs to get looked at? Should it have a modifier at all? It always felt like my accuracy is horrible.

[YendorLootmonkey]

Bow-kiting is as much fun as trying to take down a grizzly bear IRL with a single-shot BB gun and a case of BBs.

[sox7d]

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

Bow-kiting is as much fun as trying to take down a grizzly bear IRL with a single-shot BB gun and a case of BBs.

That's chained to the floor.