LU20 1st night

[Grimda]

<div>I was always sure a ranger nerf was coming. Despite this I q a 60 wizard and rerolled because ranger seemed so powerful.  So I had an open mind going into LU20 and overall I feel disappointed but not angry.  My conclusion after last night.   Ranger is absolutely playable but no longer powerful by any stretch (even with master/legendary gear and rare poisons).   We went from incredible dps to blah/fine.  I expect groups will look at ranger now as a moderate dps dealer   I don't expect anyone will specifically look for us anymore when seeking 'dps' and I fear we may have a group identity problem.   Our solo ability got even worse and it was always worse than most other classes; however soling whites and blues are  still doable with our mitigation.   Unfortunately we are stil just as expensive class to play due to poisons and arrows.  For our limited dps, I believe ranger will not be a popular choice going forward.</div><div> </div><div> </div>

[roblinb]

<div></div><blockquote><hr>Grimdayl wrote:<div>I was always sure a ranger nerf was coming. Despite this I q a 60 wizard and rerolled because ranger seemed so powerful.  So I had an open mind going into LU20 and overall I feel disappointed but not angry.  My conclusion after last night.   Ranger is absolutely playable but no longer powerful by any stretch (even with master/legendary gear and rare poisons).   We went from incredible dps to blah/fine.  I expect groups will look at ranger now as a moderate dps dealer   I don't expect anyone will specifically look for us anymore when seeking 'dps' and I fear we may have a group identity problem.   Our solo ability got even worse and it was always worse than most other classes; however soling whites and blues are  still doable with our mitigation.   Unfortunately we are stil just as expensive class to play due to poisons and arrows.  For our limited dps, I believe ranger will not be a popular choice going forward.</div><div> </div><div> </div><hr></blockquote><p>We could solo triple ups (green and some blue) heroic named mobs easily with some rudimentary strategy.  We could drop an entire group of (green con) mobs with storm of arrows.  We had devastating proc damage, and had to be careful in raids about managing aggro.</p><p>Those days are over, but yes we are still playable.  Finding groups outside our guilds is probably more of a challenge though.</p>

[sAs-Bartleby]

<div></div>105 min of Poets Palaceused poison Procs 135The 30 stun procs last for 2/3 of the timebefore LU 20 i had to put on Poison every 20 min.so my poison rate sunk vom 10 procs/min to 1,3procs/minThere were fight no poison procs from range attack. So i tryed out close combat. There the poison procs more often.Conclusion: SOE made us a close combat char.That is not why i made a ranger.If i had wanted a char to do so, i would have chosen my monk to be mainchar.I am very sad. First they destroyed my Warlock, now they destroyed my Ranger and the next will by my conjurer.I forgot:The AA choice where you can lower your hate is a laugh. Now we will never ever get a mob away from the tank.I tried it and start with strem of arrows. while i did so, the wizard got the aggro. He died 4 times yesterday.In the past, if a Healer gets a mob aggro i took the mob of from him. It was easily done. Triple shot and the mob was on me.I couldn´t manage this yesterday. Perhaps with deactivated aggro reducer. I will see.And i will not go out alone to kill blue solo mobs.<p>Message Edited by sAs-Bartleby on <span class="date_text">02-23-2006</span><span class="time_text">01:08 AM</span></p>

[Tarryn]

<div></div><blockquote><hr>roblinb wrote:<div></div><p>Those days are over, but yes we are still playable.  Finding groups outside our guilds is probably more of a challenge though.</p><hr></blockquote>A wizard with maxed strength and minimized int is "playable".  That doesn't mean he does his job well, nor that he's any fun to play.

[klepp]

<div></div>nah i cant pull aggro no matter how hard i try now =p

[sick720]

<div></div>it seems soe werent content with destroying guardians, they have come for the rangers too, they are slowly killing the game, glad i got out.