Made a Ranger last night to see how bad they really were, this was the result. - Page 2

Ivory · #1 08-13-2020, 02:05 PM

Archery is the one true greatest power in Norrath!! (Well, also bone magics)

The world has been sleepin on the power of archers.... but rise up fellow bowlievers, we must show them the true glory of the ways of the bendy branch!

Jibartik · #2 08-13-2020, 02:48 PM

I always thought rangers should have been a alternate version of bard mechanics, not caster so they could be this like mobile single target DPS thing.

Tankwipe · #3 08-13-2020, 03:43 PM

Use tell windows, heathen

uygi · #4 08-13-2020, 05:39 PM

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Use tell windows, heathen

Keep your disgusting anticlassicality away from us, heathen

Snortles Chortles · #5 08-19-2020, 10:19 AM

im pretty good at archery
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Zuranthium · #6 08-13-2020, 07:26 PM

Twinking a melee character doesn't show anything relevant and Rangers in pre-Kunark era are comparatively better than they are at high levels in Kunark. They are still one of the weaker classes pre-Kunark, but it's very marginal and more situational; compared to other melee they are fine.

Bigsham · #7 08-13-2020, 08:25 PM

i was killing sand giants at 12 on red as a war, nothing to see here folks

Bigsham · #8 08-14-2020, 09:48 AM

xp nerfs on titanium, on classic if you killed a giant at a silly level you would get 10 levels !

here you probably get a blue

Ivory · #9 08-14-2020, 09:59 AM

Sure any bow using class can do the same early on....

BUT things become much more different as levels increase and the gaps in bow skills become too much to reasonably kill things in a decent time.

Ranger criticals and their spells put them far far ahead (shadow archers are pretty good for their offensive dots and the pet... but they can't quad kite like rangers can do at 15).

Rangers have the same mana formula as a druid, so they have the manapool to actually be effective with magic as a main source of damage. The difference is it isn't a burst type of damage, but instead just sustained range DPS.

Is it the highest DPS? nope.... but it's unique in its strengths.

Skarne · #10 08-14-2020, 10:14 AM

Turks u da real MVP