Gear swapping tipsFollow

Hey everyone,

I started out as a bard and a rdm, where gear swapping is clear and obvious: you know you don't need string skill when casting a song with a wind instrument, so you macro in more singing or some wind skill, you know that you need chr up to the 110-120 range to have a decent shot at debuffing/sleeping end game event mobs, you know that you want to swap in lots of int for offensive spells, staves for spells based on type, and mnd for most buffs.

My point is, with the mage types I've played so far that the stats to buff in any one instance are pretty clearly defined, the only hazy instance I can think of is the payoff between chr and singing/string/wind skill on debuffs, but even thats only because chr "cap" is given a bit of a range.

With physical DD, it seems to be much less clear as to when I need to swap certain gear in. I hear bits and pieces about TPing gear vs ws gear, and I know that some people have mnd builds for holy bolts. The mnd builds make sense to me, the TP/ws gear I need some help understanding: isn't RACC helpfull whether you're TPing or WSing? RATT and STR too? it seems like its all about boosting which is most helpful, but the lines get blurred there, because you still need some RACC when WSing, even though you may need to pile on the STR to max the damage...

Sorry for the long post. What it boils down to: 60RNG atm, pretty solid gear up to this point (not godly gear, but I've got my selenes, got the jaridah set where useful, AF where useful, keep up to date on my +1 rings, got my amamets ready, working towards the +1 now, etc) And I don't know much about gear swapping. Does anyone have any tips on what they macro in for different actions? Slugwinder, tp, etc. Doesn't even have to be specific gear so much as what trait you focus on for each set (perhaps listed in str>ratt>racc form would be easiest?). General tips/advice/links about gear swapping on ranger are definitely welcome too. Do I even have to worry about this a whole lot pre-70?

Thanks!

Edited, Mar 10th 2009 5:30pm by TwoGil

Yep, people usually aim for 85% hit rate before sparing acc stats to (r)atk and STR or haste (for melee.


Slug is notoriously inaccurate. That's probably the only WS in this game people want to gear 80% to accuracy and 20% to everything else.



You don't generally swap gears at that level. Your TPing gear should be the maximum (or close to maximum) accuracy you can get at that level. So your Slug gear should use those gear.

later in 75 you get more options to racc. Gear yourself toward that, and mix a bit of STR and racc here and there. Usually, if you confident with hit-rate of your TP gear, then you need 40 more accuracy in slug gear in order to get confident hit-rate when firing at 100 TP. My slug gear usually have 21-33 more racc compared to TPing.

Thanks for the info guys, definitely helpful!

I don't parse, so unfortunately I'll probably have to rely on eyeballing that 80-85% acc, but this gives me something to shoot for.

That pun hurt lol

I'd prefer 19/20.

Yes I understand that it can be misleading but it can also be very helpful as if you just want a slight feel on how you will do this test can be helpful and effective. If you have other ideas that are more beneficial i would like to know as I am always interested in more tips. I used this sample of shots after a few carreer rangers told me to only shoot 10 times to base my food and/or gear. Thank you for enlightening me on my eye balling test.

Math is math. Just because the math here is involved in a video game, doesn't mean you can determine variance any differently here than anywhere else.

If you have a pre-determined expectation that's lovely, but twenty shots will not provide a reasonable estimate. Unless you call being off by 20%(4 shots more or less connecting than normal, completely understandable given the data sample) a reasonable estimate.

What I'm driving at is that figuring out the preferable food is really a "best-guess" type thing, as alluded to above. It is the unfortunate truth that in order to get a strong grasp of what food you should be using, it really helps if you've partied there for quite some time, and have reasonable data to show what you should be eating. Or barring that, asking RNGs who keep detailed notes what R Acc they got at which camps. And to be perfectly honest, except for merit camps, where we know the mobs EVA, this is not a simple chore.

This is really all I could recommend. Go with one food type for half an hour, then make up your mind.