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Before rangers come out of the woodwork chest thumping ... we all know the drill. With BIS endgame gear your dps will be respectable. With a BFG and a trueshot burn you might rarely top a chart or get close to it. Any class with gear like that will be respectable. On average, ranger dps is simply average ... and that's ok. There's a lot of utility, fun and other to be had. It's a good class but it's never 'great' dps ... at least not until the end game.
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To answer the last question, I personally did not find fear kiting animals 50+ tolerable AT ALL. But it's much better if you grab a rogue or a mage to duo with. 50+ you are limited to Velious mobs which have absurdly high AC and HP for relatively little return in xp. | |||
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You can duo (or trio) KC pretty well with a bard (50+). I used to do it in RCY with an epic rogue and sometimes a monk.
Pull mob to far corner near water, snare, and fear it. By the time mob hits corridor leading to entrance (where the fear path usually takes them) they're dead. Bard snare is also the strongest in game so mobs basically walk like theyre encumbered but with sow on. | ||
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The autist has joined the conversation!
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The bard didnt have or need a fungi and did it faster (without aoe dotting). Quote:
Monks WILL score higher. The only exception is the NToV geared ranger vs the same tier monk that hasnt yet scored the BiS monk ratio weapons off tunare etc. At most all levels of gameplay with the exception of a very narrow window in the upper (but not absolute BiS) tier of content, monks have flatly superior ratio weapons available to them. This starts with epic/kunark/planes and continues straight through to the end of the game content on p99. The only real exception is BFG trueshot burn and a ton of arrows. Monk BiS (primary and offhand) ratio = 0.83 Ranger BiS caps out in the high 0.7s for both mainhand and offhand. Next and final patch monks get triple attack at 60 and improved dmg tables at 55/60. Quote:
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Neither of these classes wins raids on p99. Raids on this server are won by pull teams, clerics, and tanks with honorable mention going to the actual dps classes (ie neither bard nor ranger). end of Alleriah reply Both classes have their place in this game and there is only marginal overlap in terms of what the average raid or group might ask of each respectively. Bards are generally actively sought out for cc/mana_regen/haste/support. Rangers are generally sought out for dps/other. Situationally either may be sought for pulling/tanking/other. Neither class fits into the ideal min/max that some (not all) on this server aspire to get but both are worth having around. Quote:
It doesnt matter what anyone recommends because bards/rangers are classes with fundamentally different roles/expectations. What matters is what you want to do. Theyre both strong classes but in different ways.
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I don't know about bards not being very useful for raids; they sure seem important for resists against some dragons. Klandlicar and Sontalac especially iirc.
Also on the note of bards not needing fungi for KC... I have to admit my ranger never had a fungi but did a load of soloing in KC. I can only imagine how powerful ranger is once you add a fungi to their other sources of regen! | ||
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Now that we know everything there is to know about bards vs rangers courtesy of Troxx and Alleriah lets move on to the real question:
What is better Boutik or A Piece of Poo 1. When Boutik speaks Poo comes out of his mouth 2. A Piece of Poo is exactly that a Piece of Poo and the winner is in a landslide A Piece of Poo (seriously you didn't think Boutik would win did you) | ||
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