How viable are rangers in Velious??

[Meadows]

Out of curiosity, how viable are rangers in velious? Do they get better at all. I know the xp penalty will be going away and that will be a big help of course, but from my understanding, the ranger as a class still lacks. Thoughts?

[fragmaster]

This thread should help http://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=207590

[SCB]

They're perfectly viable/

[Meadows]

Thanks for posting that. That was some really useful information. I think it would be fun to roll a ranger lol. I just don't know that I would have the time for it. Thanks for responding regardless guys!

[bktroost]

They can actually tank later on.

[Lune]

http://i.imgur.com/ZhKNSkJ.jpg

[Jenithia]

Lol nice flowchart. We're like weak monks!

I mean, we're fun to play and the exp penalty hopefully goes away soon. We're good for pulling sneak/hide, tagging, some light tanking duties, CC rooting, and depending on your weapons we put out a lot of dps. We do a bit of everything but aren't the master of one general thing (except Track). I like to joke that we're druids with swords, if the druid was level 34.

Some neat things about us, our Trak BP grants a free ride to Lesser Fay which is close to either Gfay wizzie rings or a short run to Steamfont druid rings.

We get Weaponshield disc now, which has come in handy a few times.

We have Call of the Predator, a group spell that gives I think +40 attack to group members. People seem to like having that on.

We see stuff pop up on our Track before most other trackers, sorry druids.

Plus, fashion quest winners! Have you seen how neat we look in Velious armor? :)

[Swish]

sow sword and you're winning ;)

[Gandite]

why would you need to afk for bong rip

[Calibix]

That flow chart is legit. /thumbs

[kaev]

Rangers are fine, p99wannabeminmaxerfashionistas not so much.

Out of every 100 p99ers who dis rangers (and paladins and shadowknights), there's one really good player with a bad attitude and 99 anxious twits who don't know their ass from a hole in the ground.

[SCB]

rangers should dual wield with slow weapons. 2h is for scrubs and int casters without good gear.

[Zuranthium]

2h is for scrubs and int casters without good gear.

2H damage increase coming in Velious era!

[indiscriminate_hater]

bring back the compass

[kaev]

bring back the compass

Fight the powah!
We demand justice for the navigationally challenged!

[captnamazing]

Rangers have always been viable. They are just better now with some cool buffs and great gear.

[Meadows]

Man you guys rock for taking the time out to post your thoughts and opinions. Haha I think it would be pretty neat to roll a char that not many other people use. Rangers seem fun. Def a class you have to be engaged with. We'll see guys haha! Food for thought anyways.

[Brut]

Problem with rangers is they're basically druids with below average melee prowess. And druids are basically bad clerics/wizards. So you're a halfbreed of a class that's already a halfbreed. Only thing ranger does the best is Track, and I guess CoP buffbot.

Story of hybrids. Until AAs came along, they had no real purpose. Live with it!

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

http://i.imgur.com/ZhKNSkJ.jpg

it's like seeing Michelangelo's David for the first time

[Rooj]

Not sure who told you ranger was a subpar melee, but they were wrong - probably didn't understand what weapons to use in main/off either. I'd really like to parse against some of your monks.

[Itap]

The Rangers that keep saying they want to parse against monks must be talking about the shittiest monks on the server, or a monk 10 levels below them.

[Pan]

I played a ranger on live from release until 2005 or so. It's a tough class and the Kunark era was the lowest point in the power curve for rangers - there's no denying that.

Further, because it's a "swiss army knife class", it's harder to play than some others. I know I have waaaaaaaaaaaay less room for error on my ranger than I do on my bull shaman.

But but but but when an ranger is played exceptionally well, it adds tons to an exp group or a raid. Especially if the ranger is paying attention and thinking and pre-unscrewing potential screwups. They have so many tools for that. And they have many tools for fixing things if they go wrong, too.

So...I do understand the ranger hate. But that hate can be mitigated some when an exceptional ranger joins the group. Or, better, when that exceptional ranger leaves the group and everyone looks at each other, remarking on the vacuum that the ranger left.

It's a neat class. And it's a ton of fun to play. And gets markedly better on the transition from Kunark to Velious.

[Kushie]

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