GodH8sMe wrote:Last night I met a 26 Ranger, who was a new player (I think he was the only one in the group that was really a newbie). He saw the famous log parser CombatStats for the first time. The poor guy tried like hell to do his job to the best of his ability. Regardless of the tips and such we gave him, the 3 fighters in the group kept him in check. As a higher level scout (and another in the group was too, oddly, who ALSO rolled a Wizard for an alt) I broke the news to him. Because at 48 it's the same way. You can trie all manner of weapons/armor/gear/skills and you're simply going to lose to a fighter who puts half an effort into a round of combat very often if not always no matter how refined your technique is.
if what you're saying is that rangers around the mid to high 20's are outdmg'd by fighter classes then i have to admit to i don't know. however, if you are saying that assassin's in this same range also have the same problem, i must have better gear than i thought because when i've been grouped with a dmg parser i've always come away happy.most recently i was in a varssons group that was the following make up:29 assassin (me) , 33 swashbuckler , 30 dirge , 30 mage/summoner/i confuse the names (the guys with the elemental like pets) , 32 paladin , 32 inquisitorafter each fight the dirge who was running the parser sent the stats , the following were always true:the inquisitor did no dmg. - no surprise here, as the single healer in a group fighting group lvl varsoon mobs i didn't imagine he'd have time to do much other than keep people alivefighter was next to lastdirge was fourthsummoner / mage / etc. was third when you factored in his pet, fourth on his own behind the dirgei was usually 2ndswashy was first.there were times when i outdmg'd everyone - fights were assassin's blade was up. not everytime but some of the time. i came away that night thinking that the dmg issues i've heard about for assassin's must happen later on but for the time being i had a big smile on my face. my weapons are nice for my lvl but lots of other folks have them - feysteel ornate spear / silver edged whip so i don't think that's it.maybe the problem you're pointing out is with rangers and if so sorry for posting something irrelevant. since this is the assassin board though , i figured you might be saying that scouts in the twenties can't outdmg fighters and while i'd love to see us get a boost, my experience has been very different.