Ranger solo gameplay style

[Crede]

Originally Posted by DoodyLich666 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I wish you could make barbarian rangers.

Barbarian Paladin with a massive fiery sword would be ideal

[Selene]

Thanks so much for the replies guys! I really appreciate it. I did play a ranger a while back but only got to level 31, never tried dungeon crawling with her, and obviously never seen the high levels. I just got tired of the root + bow all the time, felt so tedious. But after reading this I think i'll give it another shot! (no pun intended)

I have a paladin on blue and its been really fun in a sort of masochistic way lol.

[Snaggles]

Yea the paladin is kinda boring. Slow and steady, rarely in true danger.

While the ranger benefits from a wealth of plat and raid gear the pally is on the other end. A DW helm is like 500p which is good for solo healing. It’s a shoestring budget fungi or invigorate BP. A reaver or Narandi is like 9k too which is on par with some NTOV weapons.

Either on green are still dealing with the 40% hybrid penalty. A rough situation.

[Gustoo]

I used to do a lot of bow kiting and doting on mobs that were too strong for me. It took a long time but snare always landed and I packed a lot of arrows.

I never used a swarm caller because the dmg / dly was too bad and I thought slow and haste items werent worth the trouble when I could get lamentations X2 and boost my weak melee stats. I did use a woodsmans staff though.


That was just because I was dumb though.

[Ravager]

Ranger is probably the most overlooked class for farming. You can basically pop into any zone, hit Track and find plat. I dunno if Gats is still around, but he was probably one of the richest people on the server simply because of Track.

[Toxigen]

Unless you're going to twink the hell out of it, just play a monk.

[Croco]

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

Unless you're going to twink the hell out of it, just play a monk.

Speaking from the experience of having a 60 monk and an almost 52 ranger there are some important differences. Using a Swarmcaller and spells I can solo things at 51 on my ranger that I definitely couldn't on my monk at the same level.

Just going by dps the ranger can't hold a candle to the monk but it's definitely nice having sow all the time and harmo and unlimited invis. The amount of tricks and clickies a ranger has access to dwarfs a monks toolkit by far.

That being said every time I'm playing my ranger I miss FD dearly.

[Keebz]

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

That being said every time I'm playing my ranger I miss FD dearly.

Every time I play my monk, I miss snare dearly!

On green, it's a long wait til that snare hammer...

[Pint]

Unless you're twinked your only viable option is fear kiting

[Zipity]

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

Unless you're twinked your only viable option is fear kiting

False.
There were plenty of rangers in classic who soloed to 50. now there some rangers soloing from 50-60. It’s very doable but don’t expect more than 4% xp per hr 57+.