Question about the price of rangers.Follow

Price to buy a stack of iron arrows: 700-800 gil.
Price to craft a stack of scorpion arrows: 700-800 gil. Even buying them is only 1500 or so.

Even using silver bullets or demon arrows at high level won't cost you 100k a day (unless you level 6 hours a day or something). Ranger doesn't get significantly more expensive - it's a myth. Generally, I'd say 2 stacks of arrows an hour is a good guess, which ends up being 1500/hr. Depending on how many hours you play a day, you might be looking at 10k a day. Definitely more than 1-2k though.

I'm at lvl 53 almost 54. So far i spent 20k in gils on arrows and still 3k from lvling. At 55-60 it will cost about 40k of gils a lvl

uhhh... 40k a lvl is not much for you, penny?

It's about 20-30k a lvl for at lvl 45+.

You don't want to take advice from ppl who melee 2-3 times before they shoot an arrow or from ppl who arent even a rng.

5-7k a lvl at mid 40s? i suggest you stop using Iron Arrows.

I'm at lv20 therefor I do not have much experience as a ranger. But right now I am spending about 4k per lvl on iron arrows. I farm about 20k a day so it's ok. And for the eq I have now I haven't spent all that much, it's decent but not the best (for my lvl -.-).

And I have a question aswell! I remember reading somewhere +ranged accuracy > +agi. Is it correct that 2 agi = 1 ranged accuracy?

So I bought bone rings +1 instead of reflex rings or whatever they are called (the +2 agi rings). I found it a good bargain since the +1 bone rings are 2k each and +3 ranged accuracy and agi rings +2 agi 15k each. And at lv 35 you get +3 agi earrings sooo I figured I might aswell get beetle rings then instead aswell? Please tell me, did I make a good choice~~ Some feedback if possible, not just flaming. Thank you!^_^d

Buying Scorpion Arrows at the Jeuno AH runs me about 2300-2500/stack. I went through about 12 stacks of arrows yesterday going from lv41-44. Comes out to ~10k a lvl at this point.

I understand its much cheaper if you make your own arrows, so it would be a good investment, as if you dont use the arrows you make you can sell them and turn a profit.

One thing is for sure, you can't play a Ranger without some source of income that you are handy with. You will find as you level that your gilpile just continually shrinks, and without said source of income you soon won't be able to afford your top quality RNG gear. From 220k, leveling from 41-44 has taken me down to 150k, inclusive of arrow, food, and upcoming equipment costs.

You sir, are 100% correct IMO. +10 points to you :).

Sorry I cannot add any info to this thread because I feel it is very difficult to judge arrow useage. Different Rangers use different amounts of arrows.

IMO a Ranger should be firing just enough to not be taking hate all the time. Having the mob run after you every couple fights or so is ok but you shouldn't be taking aggro like a Paladin.

The opposite is true also. If the MOB hasn't even looked at you once for the past hour then you should pick up your rate of fire and lay it on them alittle more.

The 2 stacks an hour rule is probably the most acurrate measure I have seen so far. Arrow prices vary on all of the servers so your gonna have to look at your servers AH and make the estimate yourself.

Personally I don't worry about the price anymore. I make money and I spend it on arrows. I fight as long as I can and once Im out its back to making more gil.

I am 42 Rng and 58 in Woodworking and I would guess I go through 2-3 stacks of arrows an hour. Not bad when Scorpion Arrows cost about 900-1k a stack to make. But at 50 I am going to guns and Silver Bullets on Gilgamesh are 10k a stack so at 2 stacks an hour that is easily 100k a day xping. Gonna be tough to do that unless Woodworking starts turning me some better profits. Right now Scorpion Arrows are the only thing I can really make money off of and it is very little. And if 1 stack does not sell on the Jeuno AH I lose 500 gil I paid to put up. For instance I had 5 stacks up when they were 2200 a stack. Then like 2 hours later they were 2000 and mine never sold. Lost 2500 gil from that. Makes it risky to sell on the Jeuno AH but that is the only place they sell consistently.

I meant paying for arrows doesn't bother me anymore. I don't look of it as losing money anymore. I look of it as gaining playing time.



Lucky you. Arrows are rarely put up for sale in Sandoria, Bastok, or Windhurst on my server. You will find maybe 2 stacks every real life week in those cities. On the other hand we have a steady flow of Scorpion arrows at Jueno. Always 2000 a stack also.

It really isn't that hard to farm around 20k/hour. Take a lvl 15 THF to Tahrongi or East (West even) Sarutabaruta and kill :

Crawlers - Silk Thread x12 = 10-12k (on Diabolos)
Mandragoras - Saruta Cotton (stolen) x12 - 4k
Bees - Beehive Chip x12 - 3-3.5k, Honey x12 - 1-1.2k

In Tahrongi, you can also kill Wind Elementals for Wind Clusters, which I believe are 1.7k a piece. It's pretty easy to farm around that much with a lvl 15 THF (Treasure Hunter). I can't wait to see if drop rate increases with TH2 (lvl 45, only 12 more levels to go!).

You just need to know where to farm and what to kill. I've heard mining/logging can also make lots of cash, but havn't taken the time to try it myself. If you look through posts on the main forums there are lots of threads on how to successfully make money. But once you find out how, everyone else jumps on the band wagon (everyone has their secrets ;).

Except PLDs don't get Defender until level 50....

haha i can get a 99 iron arrows for 99 gil

let me guess you used 2hr on poor defenseless rabbit :) thats always fun to do.