The variety of tools, buffs, and utility is so overwhelming! I am playing in Velious right now, and I've got to keep up:
1. Diamondskin
2. Thorncoat
3. Storm Strength
3. Feet like Cat (lol)
4. Greater Wolf Form
5. Call of the Predator
6. Call of Fire
7. Chloroplast
8. Shield of Spikes
It takes a lot of mana to self buff everything up I'm noticing; granted, most of these (minus call of fire, chloroplast, and shield of spikes) lasts for 30mins - 1hr. I'm keeping the 3 short duration buffs memorized along with my 2 quick cast nukes (calefaction((spell?)) and call of flame), snare (or root), greater heal, and harmony.
What i'm not liking so far:
1. When I nuke I'm not auto attacking, where as rogues, monks, and warriors get to add burst damage while still meleeing (backstabs, kicks, crits).
2. My earthcaller causes more aggro than i'd like, and I don't want to be casting cinder jolt, so I use a different weapon in group situations.
3. Weaponshield is very useful, trueshot is cool but we should have had this all along as the equivalent to lay on hands and harmtouch.
4. This is the biggest one, if i'm solo I have to click this sky quest cape WAY to much >_<
All in all, beta buffing a ranger has definitely been a cool experience, I like it, but would like to have messed around with panic animal (oh well). solo is definitely still hard, even beta buffed. My ranger is currently lvl 50, and I love it.
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