Planing on becoming a rangerFollow

IMO the only "best city to start" would be the city for your race so you get the free ring(bastok for humes). Othere than that it really makes no difference. Plus you can usually by the ring with CP.

IMO it kind of depends, but I do agree that Bastok is probably the worst place to start a RNG.

Sandoria has the carpentry guild and nearby places to harvest lumber. Raising that early on could allow you to be building your own arrows instead of purchasing them.

Windhurst is nice because the silk thread that crawlers drop early on can really help to beef up the bank account. In addition both wooden and bone arrows are sold by NPC's in windhurst, which means you don't have to pay high AH prices for low level ammo.

There's one or two things to keep in mind about Bastok though, and they may be important enough to you to want to start there. First of all the Bastokan Ring gives +Dex, +Vit, and +HP. Marginal benefit for a RNG, but if your first character is a THF this might come in handy. The second thing is if you plan to use guns a lot at high level, the alchemy and goldsmithing guilds are there, both of which are skills needed to make bullets.

Bastok has arrows in at least 2 of its 4 zones - Wood, Iron and Silver.

_Supposedly_, Silver Arrows can be bought in towns where the town is first in Vana'diel's conquest. I have seen one of the two NPCs in "Mjoll's Goods" (Item Shop in Bastok Markets) sell Silver Arrows, along with one of the ladies in the SSdO weapon shop. They run at 18g a piece, which is a rather hefty step up from Iron Arrows.

Well, Bastok has been first on my server for the past 2 nights and I can say with reasonable certainty that I did not see Silver Arrows at the Bastok Market shops.

I've heard it likely that the items sold at vendors depend on factors beyond just being in first place for conquest.

I believe it's also said that if Windy is in first place we're SOL. They don't sell Silver at the vendors period.

I'm pretty sure it depends on the region that is under control by the country. Just like how some npc vendors will say something like "I want to import from this region, but we don't have it under control", whoever has the area that Silver Arrows can by imported from, gets silver arrows. But what area this is, I'm not sure.

Most likely it is on the Quon (sp?) continent since Bastok and San d'Oria are where Silver Arrows are usually found.

It's just like how if your nation is in last (has least regions), your weapon shot won't have many weapons (least places to import from). I'll try to compair the regions under control when San has the arrows to when Bastok does the next time it happens, I'll post if I find out anything.

I think it makes sense, but I still could be wrong.

** Sorry for being off-topic ><

Edited, Sat Feb 21 04:01:22 2004 by RKenshin