Ranged Class

[land]

Having always played ranged classes (Rifleman in SWG , Hunter in WoW ) is there no ranged bow class for evil side ? If i betray a ranger from Q it becomes an assasin right ?

[Seidhkona]

<p>Rangers and Assassins are a Good/Evil pair. If you betray a ranger, you will become an assassin and vice-versa.</p><p>Assassins can certainly use bows, but their combat arts are more weighted to up-close stealth attacks. Rangers also have these close-in attacks, but three times as many bow CAs.  You can compare the <a href="http://home.comcast.net/~eq2gamedata/ranger.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ranger Combat Arts</a> to <a href="http://home.comcast.net/~eq2gamedata/assassin.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Assassin Combat Arts</a> at <a href="http://home.comcast.net/~eq2gamedata/main.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">EQ2 Game Data Spell Lists and Racial Traditions</a>.</p><p>There are other classes that fight at range - wizards, for example, lob fireballs, but are not well-suited to close-in melee. Another class to consider are furies. Furies are healers, most of their damage comes from nuking, and I have seen furies that specced for DPS instead of healing and dished out the damage very well.</p>

[Belaythien]

There is no pure ranged class in EQ2 as far as physical damage is concerned. The only classes always fighting at range are mages and most healers.Rangers get a lot of bow attacks but also several close combat abilities. To get the most out of a ranger you have to use both.

[Spyderbite]

Assassin is as close to a Ranger (Good Ranged) as you'll get unfortunately. Some people compare the two because they share a few combat abilities. But, they are night and day and the Assassin is more like a Brigand/swashy hybrid with a passing knowledge of the bow. <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />