AdiX__Styxx__
09-11-2006, 07:48 PM
<DIV>Ok i read a buncha posts where people were complaining about the soloabilities of the ranger. So i figured i'd come down here and tell you all about my experiences! Feel free to write yours down aswell to improve our soloability across the board!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Ok so i i left the game when i had killed everything when the cap was 50 and again when the cap was 60 now i am back almost 2 months now and killed tarinax overcame nizara etc etc.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>When i started playing my ranger i soloed almost exclusively througout my lvls except when there was a heroic or epic quest i couldnt solo. But i soloed Roost / Hidden cache back in t6 cap time and lotsa other zones. Anyways when i came back i went to Kos and was dying to green soloes, i was thinking hmm i cant be that rusty.... thing is i forgot to put poison on mistake #1 so i went out and got my poisons left from the old days from the bank some adeste and phantasmel and bought some snare poison from the broker 23% slow. So i went back and again got my [expletive haxx0red by Raijinn] handed to me.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>but i did do a lot better, still i was like [expletive haxx0red by Raijinn] whats going on so i checked my spell lists everything was M1 or ad 3 at least except for 2 melee abilities hmm nothing to see there then i checked the broker for some better gear. And hmm i went from 1800 mitigation to 2400 mitigation and from 250 str to 300 also stamina and wis and int went up a lot. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>So i went back again and now i could beat the green solo mob but still lost 50% health. Now i checked my spell lists again to see if somethign had changed and i found out that we actually gotten a ROOT! and that our stun has been nerfed and kinda improved (bothways) and the root was castable from ranged awesome so now i tried again with a new strategy!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>What i did b4 was just shoot as many arrows as possible and melee it down, what i tried now was to shoot as many arrows as possible wiht the slow poison on and legshot on the mob and as it closed in drop vines and move away to shoot more arrows and amazingly the green mobs couldnt touch me at all no more!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>so i pressed on tried some blues then some whites and easily enaugh they barely touched me! So i got cocky and tried some yellows even con and they died b4 touching me again but what i did experience aswell was that lotsa areas in kos dont have much space to solo cause ya just pickup a buncha adds.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Now here is why i like hawk dive so much! You attack one mob pickup an add slow yer fisrt target select the add drop[ hawk dive and then elude it mob goes after hawk while yer first target is still slowed and ready to be punctured with more arrows!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Anyways i started getting cocky and thought hell rangers havent changed that much its just more rangerlylike since ya use a lot mroe ranged and even less melee! So i tried a yellow even con and easily killed it! So i went to a yellow up con mob still solo btw It was a lil tougher cause it took longer to kill but when all arrow shots were down from the yellow even and some fomr the yellow up i just snared it and kited in a tiny circle just outside melee range so that it couldnt hit me while i was wiating for my CA timers to get back up! </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Once these were up i rooted and shot some arrows added legshot for the new snare topped it with vines and moved away and kept shooting it!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I was impressed so naturally i tried different tactics so i can speed up the killing with different CA, so i figured it was a change of scenery and went to bonemir ravasect isle! For some reason i got ambushed a few times by a white up con mob that ment i couldnt surprise attack it from distance and get some damage in b4 hand, so i dropped hawkdive on it eluded stepped back started firing stayed in teh sweet spot so i could even drop into stealth with the detaunt and push for rangers blade!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>shot a few more arrows and at about 10/20% health the mob turned on me and here came the kiting again! Anyways these were all easy mobs, im just trying to help the rangers who are having some trouble killing them get some ideas how to use their new CA, I would have loved readin about it and not having to figure it all out myself when i just came back!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Now to continue I tried some heroic mobs some times i was succesfull sometimes i died horribly or had to evac / runoff</DIV> <DIV>Anyways what i did was solo solo mops till snipershot was up then when a named or just a heroic mob was near i would drop my trap in the pathing of the mob towards me put a stun poison on my arrows and the grandmaster healing poison!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Next i would snipeshot it with focus aim on so i might crit and def wont miss then drop leg shot to slow the mobs pathing down then triple arrow (yes low damage but might proc the stun poison) the mob would now be around the trap and hopefully pass it so it would get rooted a lil more to shoot more arrows (mob health at 50% by now) then i would use the root to move away to max range (wathcout for adds) and shoot my devitalize arrow and miracle shot and whatever is left! might even go into stealth first to shoot yer stealthed high damage arrow shot b4 all of those (mob at 25%) Now the mob should be charging you while all yer ranged CA are down except for yer aoe ones so snare the mob with vines get into stealth and shoot selection at it, ofc its an aoe but it stil does damage and might proc the stun poison while yer running (kiting) if the mob still isnt dead stun it with yer lvl 6 stun i think get behind or to the side with longshank and use emberstrike (dont use yer high damage one cause the mob is gonna turn too fast you wont have time unless ya have poise AA) now root it again with yer melee line (forgot name) and use legshot and vines again, Get some mroe distance all yer stealth attacks are down now so use yer hawk for a nice dot ofc dont forget to use mortal reminder during allthis!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>This works really well but ya can still improve this: I was using my healing poison cause i was insecure about my capabilities i use hemotoxin / caustic for it now depends on my mood and coin to purchase em! Oh and also i dont use the stun poison for this no more i just keep on kiting and when i get adds i use my hawk AND kite em all around haha!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Anyways sry for the longthread wasnt supposed to be this long but i hope this helps you all out alot (and ofc for the more experienced rangers this is a no brainer)!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>69 ranger Styxxey Ldlere</DIV>