Should I re roll?

[Cheps]

Putting everything in sta is a good long term choice, str will be far easier to max than sta. And you even get str buffs later.

[blondeattk]

dont panic mr manwaring!

i put most my stats in dex for my ranger. dont think you need panic about 80 str.

However ranger is a class thats tuff to play as a nuub.....its a class that most folk play on p99 as a twink, because this class soaks up decent gear just to stay on par with other more potent classes. Rangers are very nostalgic, but they are poorly designed in classic eq and sub par from power pov. They can be fun and def up there for role playing.

[SamwiseRed]

play on red, we love rangers

[Jimjam]

I've been mainly focusing on AC for my ranger, pretty much all the items he wears he got himself. By level 40 I'm often over 200 str (all from incidental +str on items or on buffs). I don't remember where i put my starting stats, but lets assume i put it all in str; i'd still be at 180 str if I had put those starting points elsewhere.


Basically by mid levels you won't be having problems with low str weighting you down.

In the mean time try stick to low weight food (don't fill your inventory with stacks of that heavy foraged stuff) and take a good look at your items and consider if the weight is worth whatever advantages you get. Often it is worth swapping down a size in armour if you can. Also, some reinforced armour gives the same AC as banded, but weights significantly less. Finally, if you want a set of ~leather stat armour that weighs little (which should be plenty at low levels) consider murdering a bunch of frogloks in guk for Mesh.

If you have a little money, Targishan's bone mask is a 12AC 0.0 weight face and Azure Sleeves are similar stats for arms. Much Ivy Etched armour has a decent amount of pieces with +Str.

In your situation, I suggest you ideally want to go with items that have more strength than weight and plenty of hp/ac (as much as possible).

[Yoite]

really shouldn't worry about the starter stat points. I have a necro with all points into sta (yea that was dumb) got him to 59 and he still plays just as well as any other necro. And my pally i put all my points into CHA and even went with CHA based gear so i can pacify and shit it worked out just fine. Once you get some lvls and items starter points matter less and less.

They are the most noticeable for lvl 1-20 id say, which is kinda the purpose of them i guess.

[Danth]

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

Hi, I'm fairly new to the game and was concerned about my character. I made a wood elf and it only has 80 strength and I'm always over weight. Should I re make with more strenght?

A Woof Elf Ranger comes with 70 strength as a baseline, with a maximum of 90 if you put all of your starting points into that stat. Twenty points of strength makes a big difference in how much you can carry and wear in the here and now. If you aren't giving up a lot of progress you'd probably appreciate the relief that higher innate strength will bring you. In the very long term, maxing stamina at creation instead will net you a couple per cent more hit points at level 60. It's your call as to which you value more.

If you're higher than level 10 or so, 15 at most, I'd recommend against starting over. As a general rule levels are more useful than anything else.


Danth

[Elmarnieh]

Strength equipment is plentiful and cheap, you just have to deal with it at lower levels.

I'd suggest trying to always have a sow on from friendly druids to help with run speed, you might also want to not carry copper on you and perhaps silver (depending how strapped for cash you are) but remember focus on levels early on, cash is much more easily made at higher levels.

[Daywolf]

Hero bracers! wts [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] But really, just save up for str equipment, it's pretty cheap. Farm CB belts and pads in off hours, sell those to players, rangers do really good farming CB, especially as you get the ranger into the late teens.

Don't use backpacks. Use smaller tailored bags, they hardly weigh a thing. Later farm weight reduction bags, like in south karana which are good bags.

Start drinking! Get that alcohol tolerance up! Drink one at a time, wait for the effects to wear off, then drink another. That will raise up AT nicely if you keep at it. Then when you want a cheap and easy str buff, you got it.

Other thing, you could use stat food. Make um.. dwarf chops, mammoth steaks, frost giant steaks, Beer braised bear/mammoth/gator. Those will all give you STR and baking is one of the easiest to raise to make those. Just grab wolf meat off one of the newbie vendors for cheap (often have 100's of them in gfay) and start getting skill off them. I keep stat food on all my chars, especially liking smoked wood elf on my drui [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yeah, STR is really no big deal, very-very easy to increase through gear and consumables. But yeah doesn't matter, I even put a bit of dex into my ranger on live. Here I dumped most of it into str, I wanted str like an ogre on my wood elf ranger hehe.

[Daywolf]

Oh and yeah, if you want to do a little of everything, including some raiding, than your stat choices were fine. I never plan to raid with my ranger here, I just wanted a mid-lvl ranger to hunt pelts, meat, certain other mob drops especially from named mobs, and make bows with him. My main on live was the ranger, and I'm still burnt out on serious rangering. However, if this server were headed to PoP, I definitely would, but it's not and that's fine by me. Ranger is a fun class though, salute to you if you reach cap.

[Troxx]

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

A Woof Elf Ranger comes with 70 strength as a baseline, with a maximum of 90 if you put all of your starting points into that stat. Twenty points of strength makes a big difference in how much you can carry and wear in the here and now. If you aren't giving up a lot of progress you'd probably appreciate the relief that higher innate strength will bring you. In the very long term, maxing stamina at creation instead will net you a couple per cent more hit points at level 60. It's your call as to which you value more.

Danth

Agreed.

While the high end raiding neckbeards will always say that dumping everything into stamina is ideal, this ignores that higher strength at the start of the game really does make life easier - especially if you're a new player.

Yes, capping strength is easier than most stats at the high end.

What the neckbeards fail to realize is that not everyone is a neckbeard and not everyone will be bashing their head against the wall that is raiding on p99. Even then, the difference between 15-20 points into str vs 15-20 points in to stamina doesn't make a hill of beans difference at the high end.

Velious was conquered with Kunark gear, and velious gear makes velious that much easier. As a melee character you could dump all your starting stats into wisdom or intelligence and still be barely worse than having dumped all your starting stats into something more relevant.

On all my characters, I dump my stats into what makes being a low to mid level character less painful, and I've never regretted that decision.