how much is really spent on arrows/bulletsFollow

Hello all,

Im very interested in becoming a ranger but im curious about the real cost involved with arrows/bullets. from what I hear you need to be "rich" to play a ranger, of course just starting out the game I won't be so please give me some feedback :)

Thanks in advance,
Dan

In my limited knowledge about playing a ranger, (my ranger is currently level 22), I think that people make more out of the costs than need be. Let me share some facts and the opinions I have formed over the last week of starting a ranger.

1. Wooden and Bone arrows are 4gil each, 396gil per stack of 99. A stack of arrows lasts quite a long time. Depending on whether or not you are solo or grouped, you will use up between 5-10 stacks for approximately 8 hours of game time. So you will have spent 2k - 4k. Dont ever buy arrows from the AH, at least not until past 30.

2. Save EVERYTHING that drops from mobs. Bird feather, Yagudo feathers, crystals (obviously), crawler calculus ect ect. Find the quest NPCs in your town that give money for items, you can build cash and fame at the same time. Wait until you have a stack and sell it in the AH. No matter if bird feathers sell for 300gil or 3000gil, it all adds up. You can also work up some of your tradeskills by (as an example) turning Yagudo necklaces into grass threads or copper ingots ect and selling them for substantially more than the un-synthed items.

3. Do not spend money on anything that does not directly affect your damage output. Sure you can get a few more Defense for several thousand gil more than your current armor, but its a waste. Spend money on + agility, + ranged attack, + ranged accuracy, + strength, the best bow you can have at your level. Do not waste money on a few points of defense, you are essentially a Black Mage that never runs out of mana and you should never be tanking a mob past level 10 maximum.

4. Use bone arrows through your early teens at the least, and in reality you can until about 22. At 14 when you can use iron arrows the damage increase from bone arrows is very small. It becomes more noticeable after about 17 but there is still not a drastic difference that warrants doubling the cost of your arrows. At 22 the extra damage is worth the cost.

By saving everything that drops and selling it at the AH the costs of arrows (up to level 22) doesnt even take from my savings. I am always up cash at the end of the day. So in my opinion, rangers do not have to be rich, they just have to be frugal and smart about what they spend money on.

One last thing, I search long and hard at the AH of every town from Sandoria to Jeuno to Windhurst and I really am unable to find any armor that is really worth buying and is expensive until level 24 (Martial Pants) then its pretty much level 30-34 before rangers seem to get anything really nice and really expensive. Plenty of time to save some bucks.

Hope this helps some aspiring rangers or anyone on the fence about being a ranger because of the costs.

i spend about.. 15k per 2 days on making silver's, just buying all the materials to make them.. (don't have 17 goldsmithing yet, so the cost is higher) ...and 10k+ per day power lvling my crafts. making bone arrow's is easy and cost effective at lower lvls, but at those higher lvls....