Ranger Help

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• fozzie22 Member Posts: 1,003

  November 2007

  After that lengh of time wawy the simple thing would be to roll a new toon the games all but changed from your time and doing a toon will give you chance to learn the game over.
• BaronJuJu Member UncommonPosts: 1,832

  November 2007

  Yeah I'm fearing it may come to that, however this guy has all my vet rewards (pre-orders from original EQ2, etc). I wish we could move those to other characters.

  "If we don't attack them, they will attack us first. So we'd better retaliate before they have a chance to strike"
• Nadia Member UncommonPosts: 11,798

  November 2007

  1-time vet rewards you already used would be missed

   

  when I came back 3 months ago,

  I deleted my 1st char that had pre-order rewards and i wasnt happy about doing it, but it was easier to make a new character and get the instant benefits of earning AA at level 10+

   

  on bright side, your account being 3 years old should have some perks.

   

   

  EQ2 fan sites
• Whoopde Member Posts: 5

  November 2007

  BaronJuJu you have discovered that Rangers aren't really melee'ers but they do have some good points (which they generally share with other Scouts).

  First, Rangers are about the best sneakers (invising), they track (which can save you a lot of time) and they move fast even without mounts.  If you like roleplaying they have a lot of role models such as several Tolkein characters, Robin Hood, etc..

  Here is my 2 cents guide for playing a Ranger and surviving (more or less).  (Some of this is probably obvious but I will repeat it anyway.)

  A Ranger survives by killing it's prey as fast as possible and minimizing melee.  It just can't sustain extended melee combat.

  1. Do as much damage as possible with your range attacks or sneak attacks (if you are too close to range).  This means of course updating your abilities and equipment (bows & arrows) to maxmize damage on these attacks.  Make sure to enhance your AGI and use your heroic events. 
  2. Make sure you are using poisons.  A ranger can use poisons and it is a major augmentation. Poisons can be purchased or you can create your own alchemist if you like to craft.  Once you equip your poisons they act passively (after activation) so they are easy to use.  Also you can use two at a time if the symbols are different colors.
  3. This is debateble but my Ranger usually dual yields.  Dual yielders give-up a lot of protection by not using a shield but dual yielding deals damage very fast and can prevent the mob from casting.  Again the idea is to kill fast and not sustain long melee's.

  These are the main things you should be looking at to improve your hunting.  Ranger is a fairly complicated class to play but I think they are a lot of fun and have good graphics.  Some of the challenges make them more interesting and enjoyable to me.  They perhaps aren't the greatest in groups although they are good at initiating attacks and the tracking ability can help the group a lot.  Also they can disarm traps.
• BaronJuJu Member UncommonPosts: 1,832

  November 2007

  Thanks for the help and suggestions. I tweaked a few things (AA's, skills) and he seems to be doing a little better. Its going to take some time getting used to him again.

  Now its just waiting for that RoK to finish downloading and I will be set.

  "If we don't attack them, they will attack us first. So we'd better retaliate before they have a chance to strike"