Ranger solo

[Thiefboy777]

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

- what do you think is the best dps 1h weapons I can get apart from epics?

Swiftblade of Zek 11/18, Horn of Hsagra 13/20 mainhand

Blade of Carnage 15/23 offhand.

Those are top of the line droppables.


Some more realistic options, skyfury scimitar 13/23, Winters fury 13/23, scimitar of the emerald dawn 20/34, crafted velium warsword 10/18, silver sword of yalrek 13/24, EoN 14/25, frost bringer 12/22 (but agro proc), fayguard partying dagger 9/17 (no drop)

[RDawg816]

I'm not up to date on my ranger weapons. Sorry...
Wurmslayers are primary only.
Slow is great if you can get it to proc early.

[demokatt]

Oh its primary only.. my bad :-)

[demokatt]

thanks I check those up

[gildor]

Lupine dagger..gives your a wolf form proc you don't get until much much later in levels as a spell

[Ivory]

I've been soloing a TON on my ranger.....

1-25 - Bows!!! So strong being able to kite anything around. It might take a little longer to kill, but there is no downtime.

25-35 - More bows!!! Yea, running around shootin stuff is pretty powerful if you try and get a bow of the huntsman at about level 30-35..... duoing is pretty easy being able to hate-kite stuff with a partner (though I still soloed a lot).

35-44 - This got a little harder....bows were good, but I also found myself fear kiting a bit (not because my bow + spells were that much worse, just I was far away from arrow merchants).

Then I got my skydarkener at 45 or 46....and....I became so strong!!!

46-51 - AE kiting in dreadlands with my bow :3 Having a bow that procs a 184 AE with high dexterity is kinda crazy....

51-52 - I've been soloing ice giants a lot....I can hold the 2 spawn pretty easily outside of permafrost. I never get hit....I don't think I've really been hit too much my entire ranger career...... people say we are squishy or something? I dunno, I guess things need to be able to catch me to find that out.

Bows are really strong!!! Sure the raw DPS alone (ignoring spells) isn't as high as meleeing (at least not unless you have a dragon bow). But it makes up for it in being able to use your spells and meditate while fighting (kind of like shaman canni dance).

Dots + nukes + bow shots plenty makes up for anything lost in melee.....and there is no needing to heal yourself up after, and if you need more mana you can just go more bow and pull back the magic.....or, if you need dps, go full magic and nuke between every 2 shots.

And now that I've gotten the double damage in group situations....my shots easily hit for 100-150 a shot when someone is distracting it. Combined with call of flame (204 damage) and careless lightning (99 damage) with immolate (24 damage dot)...and the random 184 damage proc (the best string I've had is 6 shots with 6 procs.....hue hue hue)..... yea, it isn't so bad at all [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Though, even with just the bow of the huntsman....you still get a really nice 81 damage proc !! on a fast bow!!

Basically...what I'm getting at is..... use bows, bows are awesome [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Wiley]

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

Bows...

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[Cecily]

You use a bow in group as dps? lol.

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[Ivory]

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

You use a bow in group as dps? lol.

Leveling up I mostly soloed....

Around 20-30 I grouped a couple times and generally used melee. Though I would still bow stuff (like when pulling the mobs would get to the group with 70-80 percent life :P). or if people were OOM and needed to slow down pulls...I would go pull something for myself to bow down while I waited (since I can med while bowing).

Smaller groups though (duo with a mage, or team without a healer) I would hate-kite for the group (So no need for tank or healer). Flame lick and snare and run around bowing.

But solo is where I liked a lot. I made level 40 necromancers jealous of my ability to solo with a bow :P

Now that I'm 51, I would use my bow in a group to DPS as long as it is outdoors (since my proc works there). Double damage + procs + spells = not bad! I'm fairly sure I am stronger bowing than I am with melee....and if not, it is superrrr close.

Bows are insanely strong!!! I think the biggest realization of how strong I was was the other day when I teamed up with a level 59 shaman....we were playing around with giants.

I pulled some... and things were going fine....but then we started to get adds (and I was grabbing more I saw hehe). We had like 8 giants on us! The shaman was trying to root and slow and dot stuff....but he quickly ran oom....so I was flame licking to taunt off of him, running around, everything snared, bunched them up and was hitting them with my AEs (so much that the shaman got jealous and switched to his ae spell too).....the shaman almost died a couple times even o.O Under 30% life, where I ran to him and healed him out of low health agro....then kept moving and shooting....

Basically, I was dancing around them like they were nothing! 1 giant....10 giants...-shrug- no problem as long as I got arrows.

Maybe I should write an archery guide....

[Priceline]

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

Maybe I should write an archery guide....

I'm all for people playing the game how they want but please don't destroy the souls of others by doing that in groups.

If people wanted someone not knowing how to play there class and doing almost no dmg they could just invite an aoe kiting bard.