Think our situation has improved?

[Jay]

<DIV><FONT size=2>Just wondering how others are feeling about the ranger situation. I know a lot of the problems still exist for the 40-50 game, but in general, do you think the class is getting at least a bit of the attention that it deserves? </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Personally, I'm a lot happier with my ranger lately. I can't stop playing him. Some of this is due to SOE's recent changes, some of it is due to my own good fortune, and some of it is due to just making progress in the game. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>How are you guys feeling?</FONT></DIV>

[Kyriel]

well done with my 30's starting on my 40's so far is still good, yes a lot of poisons dont hit as much and i resort to kiting a lot but overall i still fell good almost 41 been 40 for 1 week now just checking out my damage around feeroot,rv, re, ct, and ool but so far is alright.

[FenaImayan]

I just started my 30's and the difference from 20's to 30's imho has been tremendous. I am much happier with my Ranger right now than I think I ever have been. Excited to see my development from here, but I think overall this class is a really nice fit for me and keeps me very interested in gameplay :smileytongue:

[Absinth]

The 30's have been fun. I'm worried that our dps costs so much money tho. And I'm nervous going into the 40's. Hopefully we'll get a look-at before I get too far in <div></div>

[Guard_Ra]

<DIV>I love playing my Ranger but i still don't like having to switch back and forth between arrows while i try to Rip enough to use. Now i don't know if we're broke or not but i noticed last night that a number of my Archery abilities were now useful while moving. I hope it was a fix rather than a new bug introduced.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Cheers, </DIV>

[Sirlutt]

<span><blockquote><hr>Jay42 wrote:<div><font size="2">Just wondering how others are feeling about the ranger situation. I know a lot of the problems still exist for the 40-50 game, but in general, do you think the class is getting at least a bit of the attention that it deserves? </font></div> <div><font size="2"></font> </div> <div><font size="2">Personally, I'm a lot happier with my ranger lately. I can't stop playing him. Some of this is due to SOE's recent changes, some of it is due to my own good fortune, and some of it is due to just making progress in the game. </font></div> <div><font size="2"></font> </div> <div><font size="2">How are you guys feeling?</font></div><hr></blockquote>I feel better about it.  Excited about the upcoming changes to poisons.. procing more.. and more damage..  the upgrade to CA damage has helped alot too.  i still think a revamp of some of our skills are in order.. we get far too many snares ... and they dont stack.. evac is good.. until other classes get it later.. i'd like to still see a group sneak.. but only outside.. and i'd like to see us be able to "forrage" - ie track resource nodes.. not rares or anything like that.. but just be able to get a WP to the closest node of each type.. it'd work like this.. you click forage.. it lasts for 15 mins each time.. with 1:30 recast timer. enter combat breaks it.. same as all the usual spells that break invis.. while its a box is up with the node types in the area your in .. you select the one you want.. and it WPs to the nearest node of that type.. once you get there and harvest it .. it updates to the next nearest node of that type..  it gives no higher chances on rares or anythng silly like that.. just allows us to "forage' for the correct type of resource.. i think this would make us very usefull. that and tracking needs a bit of a revamp in general. overall i am happy with my Ranger.</span><div></div>

[KetMali]

<DIV>Okay so far...alot of rangers are still griping but I can still outdps most bruisers/monks on raid mobs. You basically have to find a ryhthm to get in and you can do massive amounts of dmg. Rangers are still awesome, you may use 3-400 arrows on a raid mob but maybe its just me but I am lucky and have a woodworker guildie and buy stacks for 1g each.</DIV>

[sjaste]

Currently on holiday and thought I'd check forums to see whats happened looks good and I'm looking forward to coming back to the game.

[kyshander]

I've enjoyed my Ranger since I became one, and since I don't play hard-core enough, I don't really notice when they change little things, but the post above that mentioned tracking nodes, well, that would be awesome!

[hieronym]

at 44 i am doing some very nice DPS but the power im using is terrible.

[stainremov]

nah that resource tracking ability would be stupid. it'd just end up leading you to fishing nodes. it would be more frustrating than useful. if they gave you different colors or whatever for different nodes. that would just be too complicated. worse off, they'd probably nerf something else or give assasins an actually useful ability instead of foraging or whatever. i'd much rather they focus on making bows stronger or something actually useful. i harvest too, but pathfinding and that one agi/speed buff already makes it much easier for us to get to nodes. <div></div>

[Plexar_Vari]

I would be happier by leaps and bounds if they would lower the power cost on some of our attacks.  As a ranger, I am ALWAYS the first one to go OOP and this isn't just from spamming specials.

[Sirlutt]

<span><blockquote><hr>stainremover wrote:nah that resource tracking ability would be stupid. it'd just end up leading you to fishing nodes. it would be more frustrating than useful. if they gave you different colors or whatever for different nodes. that would just be too complicated. worse off, they'd probably nerf something else or give assasins an actually useful ability instead of foraging or whatever. i'd much rather they focus on making bows stronger or something actually useful. i harvest too, but pathfinding and that one agi/speed buff already makes it much easier for us to get to nodes. <div></div><hr></blockquote> i dont think you understood my idea..it would let you select the type of node you wanted to find the nearest one of.. if you wanted fish.. and one was in range.. it'd WP to that.. if you wanted a wood.. or a trapping node..it'd find the nearest one of those.. within range of the tracking skill... i just find it hard to believe woodsman.. masters of the forrest.. cant find wood.. rocks.. critters or fish easily.</span><div></div>

[Gareorn]

<DIV>I was very disgruntled because so many of our skills didn't work properly.  Most nights, I'd pass on playing becasue of the disappointment it caused.  Now I'm very excited.  Not everything is fixed, but at least we are heading in the right direction. :smileyhappy:</DIV>

[Zemeckis]

The only thing I want to make me almost completely happy is to increase the melee damage on our weapons by a bit and increase the damage on our ca's or reduce the recast.  Other scouts have multiple ca's that do the same dmg with a considerably lower recast.  Also the power cost is a little ridiculous.  I hate using PGT at lvl50 for power in group or when helping some friends. 

[Randall-Rain]

Well they finally fixed longshanks, so i wouldn't expect anything else good to happen for next few months lol <div></div>

[Timt]

<div></div>There's still a lot of broken skills, but since LU#6 my DPS has definately been increased so I'm happier than before. For example, against the Fiery Apparition ^^^ named in Lavastorm, I got the following DPS figures: Group Damage: 126855 Highest Hit: Okima 813, Crippling Blade lvl46 Okima: Total 40878, DPS = 109.6 lvl50 Tank#1: Total 38609 (Pet 10425), DPS = 103.5 lvl50 Tank#2: Total 34321, DPS = 92.0 So, even 4 levels lower than the tanks I can out DPS them in a sustained fight. This wasn't happening a while ago, they were kicking my butt. My biggest problem was power usage though. If we didn't have mana regen from other group members I would have been out of power and the DPS would have suffered. All of the other classes seemed to have plenty of power left. Maybe I should get myself a manastone...hehe....I was using store bought poisons too, so I could probably have gone even higher DPS with the player made ones. Now whilst this does look good, I'm still dreading getting to the level 50 raid mobs as I hear they are immune or have very high resists to Scout type attacks so my DPS will plummet again. If they could fix our remaining broken skills, and reduce the level of power usage a few notches then I'd be very happy. Oh, and maybe give 2 or 3 arrows from Adept Rip/Tear. Thanks ! <div></div><p>Message Edited by Timtim on <span class=date_text>04-12-2005</span> <span class=time_text>12:30 PM</span>

[Randall-Rain]

<div></div>To be around 150+ dps, i have to be constantly use spells/ca. I'm a big power sink, it's amazing. And most of the time i have clarity/insight and i use GEBs ! too bad i don't have a robe of the invoker lol <div></div><p>Message Edited by Randall-Raines on <span class=date_text>04-12-2005</span> <span class=time_text>02:32 PM</span>