leveling a ranger worth it?

[Mouadieb]

I know I will be flamed for posting this but I have spent a ton of time reading about the class. I got frustrated with my 28 guardian always being DPS for a group instead of MT so I made a predator. From what I am reading things at high level seem very costly and frustrating as well. I am sure things might get fixed by the time I reach 40+ but in the current state of things it seems very disturbing to have to spend as much gold etc on arrows etc just to try to maxamize your DPS. I am going woodworking with this char to make my own arrows and I am an alchy on my guardian who can harvest and mine tier 4 atm so it will help but things still seem a bit unfair to your class to me. Just some observations in general that I for one hope are addressed soon as I really like the scout class so far and really want to be useful in the future.

[Tr]

If you want to be useful, tanks and healers come before scouts and wizards always. Fixes will come for Rangers, just wish people would try to be more positive to get solutions instead of whining and hoping SoE will do something. You can argue that dps are better group fillers, while tanks and healers are better at starting groups.Rangers are a fun class, they are just short on a few things to make up for their burst dps. Rangers are great till 40+, but if those of us could hit 50 there's no reason to complain. Good luck in making your decision, play a ranger up and see if you like it.

[Mouadieb]

thanks for your reply. I really enjoy my scout so far and I am seriously thinking about going this route reguarding the post 40 problems. One question that I have that I can't seem to get answered in the predator forum is about poisons.. I have 4 activated atm all skill 50 poisons. 2 that I made and 2 that I bought off vendors. I never seem to get them to proc at all. One time I saw a resist that I assume is from poison. I can mainly solo yellows/oranges so is that restricting my procs? Can anyone enlighten me on what I am doing wrong? I read where just using 3 poisons seems to max your procs but i can not seem to even make 3 proc or even notice that they do.

[Tr]

I believe that if you stack poisons only the latest one will proc till it wears off, then the next one, etc.. Poisons proc pretty often, but if they are resistable you won't land them often on orange mobs.Another thing I forgot to mention was woodworking. Don't rely on making your own arrows, the system is junk. For the amount of arrows you can use in an hour, it would take 2 hours to craft them and will barely save you any money even at the higher levels. Woodworking has some strong points, but fletching arrows is not one of them.

[Mouadieb]

ok thanks for that, since i can already make poisons on my guardian since he is an alchy, what would you sudgest as a ranger? I already chose woodworking as my 2nd thing so I am sorta stuck there or is there a way to tell him i wanna be something else since i have not hit 10 yet?>

[Tr]

Not sure if you'll be stuck as a craftsman now or not. If you're seriously considering major tradeskilling, woodworker is still a good choice for bows. Its not a bad choice, hopefully arrows will be easier to make so they're actually worth something.