Are Rangers still hated in Velious era?

[Snaggles]

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

Welp, I'm about to ding 5, and now I face a decision, sell my bone chips and grind out the levels on orcs in Greater Faydark, or turn the bone chips in and shoot to level 9. I know I'm probably supposed to just turn them in, but the money is significant to me at this level, and I don't mind grinding it out, especially at a camp where I might be able to meet people.

What would you guys do?

Level with the chips, buy a Silver Swiftblade. Skip the lammies and save like 1kpp.

A lam is only going to speed up the 1-20 grind. After that DW sucks for at least 26 more levels.

[deezy]

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

Level with the chips, buy a Silver Swiftblade. Skip the lammies and save like 1kpp.

A lam is only going to speed up the 1-20 grind. After that DW sucks for at least 26 more levels.

I'm a big fan of lammys till epic. Lammy starts to equal a woodsman's staff dps around lvl 40. While there are better options from around lvl 20-40, those options don't scale into 50+ as well as a lammy does.

[deezy]

Keep grinding and socialize imo

[Troxx]

Deezy,

Your experience is different than any I’ve had on p99 on any of the *toomany* toons I have leveled here. I believe you, it’s just not what I have seen unfortunately. Rangers are perfectly competent at the the tanking job.

Most times, any ranger tank in my groups was either a situation of opportunity or it was because the ranger was overgeared or someone knew the ranger. The same was true for inviting a ranger dps. If a random ranger was lfg along with a random monk/rog/etc, I cannot recall many (if any at all) the random ranger was chosen over another class unless I went out of my way to point out the benefits.

I haven’t leveled a ranger on p99 yet but it’s soon and I look forward to it.

[deezy]

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

Rangers are perfectly competent at the the tanking job.

I'm not debating whether or not a ranger is competent in a tanking role, I don't need to. Only that rangers will get overlooked, never picked over any other tank, or that you should expect to rarely get a group. In my experience, the two times I leveled my ranger, it was quite the opposite.

[Loadsamoney]

Glad I saved the chips, got to around Level 8 in Crushbone in about an hour thanks to some generous buffers. Feels like I saved some money there for sure.

Even if Lammy's arent the best mid-level, I still want them because they play aesthetically into a Rangers characters. Rangers are meant to dual-wield after all.

And I'd rather do a bunch of consistent little hits than the occasional big hit with wider variance.

[bomaroast]

Just because a ranger has the ability to hold agro does not make healing a ranger a fun job. Play a healer and you'll know why rangers get passed over.

[Snaggles]

Well it’s your prerogative. Just know that the feeling of doing more damage isn’t the same as actually doing more damage.

At least get a Jade and a CSS so you are in the .5 ratio club.

[Troxx]

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

Just because a ranger has the ability to hold agro does not make healing a ranger a fun job. Play a healer and you'll know why rangers get passed over.

Yep.

[Jimjam]

I recently saw a hands group that had a ranger and sk. The sk was leaving soon and they wanted a new plate tank. They would not consider moving the ranger to tank and having a monk pull (nor even having a monk tank). This was despite having an end and cleric in the group.

So obviously rangers do get invites, but there are still some players reluctant to let them tank. Which is odd as I tanked in most my groups as ranger when not pulling.