Ranger solo

[Troxx]

Originally Posted by Cecily [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I think it's worth mentioning that rangers are absolutely fantastic at killing greens at 60, particularly with a sky cloak. Much more efficient than my druid at farming.

Bards are better [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The day I realized I could stack 388 a tick in dots (4 targeted + 2 aoe) on my bard WHILE giving myself 40hp/tick regen AND slowing the mob 35% ... jesus.

At 60 bard can sustain ~65dps in dots + pitiful melee (hand to hand) + slows + self heals solo on greens, blues and light blues.

Moral of the story? Bards win [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Crawdad]

Originally Posted by Troxx [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Bards are better [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The day I realized I could stack 388 a tick in dots (4 targeted + 2 aoe) on my bard WHILE giving myself 40hp/tick regen AND slowing the mob 35% ... jesus.

By twisting 7-8 songs at once? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Cecily]

Originally Posted by Troxx [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Bards are better [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The day I realized I could stack 388 a tick in dots (4 targeted + 2 aoe) on my bard WHILE giving myself 40hp/tick regen AND slowing the mob 35% ... jesus.

At 60 bard can sustain ~65dps in dots + pitiful melee (hand to hand) + slows + self heals solo on greens, blues and light blues.

Moral of the story? Bards win [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yeah? Well I regen 25 a tick, slow the mob 50%, and self haste for 90%, ds for 26. Without carpal tunnels.

And did you say 65 dps? (if you're gonna mention AE that's not a fair comparison)

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Some blues today:

 

Froglok forager in 111sec, for 6012HP and your 54dps at 4/4/2016 12:21:13 PM
Froglok forager in 203sec, for 6087HP and your 30dps at 4/4/2016 12:24:31 PM
Froglok forager in 90sec, for 6004HP and your 67dps at 4/4/2016 12:29:20 PM
Froglok forager in 108sec, for 5995HP and your 56dps at 4/4/2016 12:31:38 PM
Froglok forager in 82sec, for 5935HP and your 72dps at 4/4/2016 12:36:39 PM

That's with a Swiftblade of Zek (+earthcaller on frogs) / Swiftwind at 200ish STR. Would get better with NToV stuff or really any additional Velious gear.. haha.

Not saying we're the best. Not saying what I did is particularly noteworthy. Just I'm very pleased with how my ranger performs with farming self buffed.

[Troxx]

Originally Posted by Crawdad [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

By twisting 7-8 songs at once? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

6 dots

One song is 50/tick for 1 minute (35% slow as well)

71 single target
71 single target
48 single target
72 aoe (per mob)
76 aoe (per mob)

For single pulls that comes out to 388 damage per tick. For each extra mob add another 148 per tick.

Can keep all 6 dots up without really dropping while working regen in once per dot cycle. If we're talking really low cons the 2 aoe song damage will be multiplied by the number of mobs in the pull. One button click every 3 seconds and an instrument swap every ~10 seconds is hardly carpal tunnel.

[Cecily]

I turn on auto and kick things.

[Troxx]

And bards use no mana and have no down time apart from how long it takes to find another mob. Mobs at seafury cyclops level and below can't out-damage the regen song.

[Troxx]

Rangers solo just fine for casual play. Twinked to the teeth they do pretty damned well but will still fall behind monks, bards, and most casters.

[jolanar]

Originally Posted by Troxx [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

And bards use no mana and have no down time apart from how long it takes to find another mob. Mobs at seafury cyclops level and below can't out-damage the regen song.

And require no gear, unlike the top end raid gear Cecily is referencing. Not hating on Rangers, just saiyan.

[demokatt]

So far I am level 15 and Having fun with my new ranger. Though Im not sure why it would be more dps than an SK with a good 2h weapon using fear? But for casual solo play Im falling in love with tracking :-)

[Superranger]

At lower level it will be similar to SK (ranger used to get the edge because they could get the very nice Woodman's staff for cheap whereas SK didn't have similar option, not as true now with Verious weapons) but at higher level, ranger's offense and weapons skills cap at much higher skill level than SK, + they get dual wield