How do YOU play as a ranger?Follow

54, 6k from 55 :D



Always WAR. I had it already levelled from playing thief. You don't need the accuracy from ninja early on, and no one sub offers more than warrior does. Berserk is a key ability.



No and no. Don't see any compelling reason.



As of yesterday I can finally make my own scorpion arrows, but prior to that I always bought. You definitely don't have to make your own to survive.



The only essential equipment is the best bow you can get and the archer's knife at 28. Selling things like leaping boots / hairpin for 200k is worth more than actually wearing them. ;) A pair of +ranged accuracy rings is useful and cheap. I still wear my Mithra RSE boots, and I used the gloves for a long time too. A pair of wing earrings is dirt cheap - drone earrings aren't too expensive either. You'll want to stick with the ranger's necklace you get for the quest unless you happen to be rich enough for a peacock charm (3-4 mil gil). You can even skimp and buy beetle/iron arrows for a long time.



The party never waits on me to get tp; I usually have near 200% by the time some war/drk/drg gets 100% to renkei with. I'm not sure about samurai yet; still waiting to see how accurate sidewinder is at low tp values.



/equip ammo "Whatever arrow"

Use that at the top of any weapon skill or barrage macro. It's really annoying to waste a barrage because you only had 1 arrow equipped, or mess up a skillchain because you just fired your last arrow prior to the ws.



I like the scanning ability. I like pulling mobs rather than having someone else screw it up - it also lets me set the pace of the party and makes me feel important. :) It's fun to be a ranger in a crowded area and constantly grab mobs while other parties have warriors running around for 5 minutes without a kill. I like dealing big damage, and I like getting invited to parties without a flag up while there are still a dozen melees lfg.

WOW - awesome reply, Otrere!
I was concerned about tp until I started playing rng, but while duoing with a SAM frined in Ghelsba I am getting equal to about 50% more tp than her in the same amount of time...as long as I don't miss too much.

Also, I didn't realize how much the mobs hate me...I mean HATE! I'm used to generating hate and not wanting to be hit from being a mage, but wow...if I land 2 regular shots in a row on an EM or T orc and my SAM friend misses more than once I am lucky if her voke gets it off of me before it does serious damage to me. I also didn't realize how low rng defences were compared to other melee - a nice challenge ;D ...It's also because of hate (and gil) that I was curious about switching out arrows for the big nukes.

Another thing I was curious about was what melee weapon you use. I've seen many higher level rng walking around with 1H axes and swords alot, but I figured that this was just for soloing and farming...none of them were mithran either ;D ((on a side note...I once played with an elvaan rng that refused to use his ranged ws oO ...he was pretty much playing as a gimped war w/1H axe that wouldn't voke and and would try to pop off an arrow every so often...silly elvaan rangers)) At level 10 I cant see myself parting with my beestinger for a while and then after that sticking with daggers exclusively. I am making sooo much hate with every arrow that low damage DOT seems to me the best way to go in order to stay alive, build tp, and still contribute between shots...I also want that archers knife pretty badly.

*sigh* so, it looks like I'll have to level my war up a bit also - oh well...berserk will rule!

Anyone else?

The 1h axe WS Rampage looks really good, but I'm not sure if you'd ever want to use it instead of Sidewinder. The +10 ranged accuracy is just too good to pass up so I haven't used any main weapon besides the archer's dagger.

Still at 54, too many key hunting parties and random junk, not enough levelling. ;)

OOOOHHHHH rangers are soooo coool i wanna be one... but im only at level 18 at my main job.