Creature Handler Archive
Thread: Ranger & CH should be Combined
Aerontako_Shretalon wrote:
And they have those frig'n awsome tents. CH may want the abeality to track, but every other profession just wants a home away from home.
I can understand the Tent-Envy. Nothing beats putting up a HTFB.
As Phenix stated, instead of combining 2 broken professions that are completely unrelated, what needs to be done is the fix the unrelated professions instead.
Also, Ranger is a lot more valuable than just harvesting resources.
Rangers can track players, NPCs, and creatures
Rangers can throw traps to inflict state effects on creatures (some work some dont)
Rangers can Camo themselves and others to sneak past NPCs and Creatures. (yes anyone can apply cammo now, but Rangers have the skill mod to keep it from breaking every 2 seconds)
Right there are 3 very valuable tools that a Ranger can use that do not involve organic harvesting.
besides, why would you want broken Ranger abilities added to your already broken profession?
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Phenix1050 wrote:People really must love Ranger skills. There have been proposals for Ranger to be combined with Squad Leader, Creature Handler, Bounty Hunter...the list goes on and on. But the answer, every time, has been a resounding "get yer grubby hands offa my skillset" from the Ranger forum. We don't want to be combined with anything. We want our skills to work. We want your skills to work. You keep your skills, we'll keep ours. If something is broken, you fix it. You don't tape a broken toaster to a broken refridgerator and say that they both are working, do you? So why put together two professions which have almost nothing in common? You tame creatures, I slaughter them wholesale and then rip the flesh from their bones. Two entirely different ideas on what to do with tameable creatures.
qfe...well-said, phenix.
I think we shouldcombine all professions with Creature Handler 
Don't we all want to see gnorts be able to use flamethrowers?
I've always said that no two professions complement one another quitelike Ranger and Creature Handler do. But they are very different professions, and I can only think the suggestion to do away with Ranger - a very cool profession by itself - is simply meant to be an attention getter and start some heated discussions.
However, the 3 most borked professions in this game are probably CH, Ranger, and Squad Leader. (Smugglers might disagree with that though ). The advantage of combining all 3 into one profession is that than it would be the biggest borked profession in the game.
jamgar30 wrote:
Ranger is pretty useless at this point unless you just harvest skins and stuff. The perfect fix for ranger is to go ahead and combine it with creature handler and get rid of the profession as a whole. Also Squad leader could be made into a profession comparable to CH but with faction pets but remove the perma-death on faction pets.
ROFL obvously your not a ranger...........
Phenix1050 wrote:
People really must love Ranger skills. There have been proposals for Ranger to be combined with Squad Leader, Creature Handler, Bounty Hunter...the list goes on and on. But the answer, every time, has been a resounding "get yer grubby hands offa my skillset" from the Ranger forum. We don't want to be combined with anything. We want our skills to work. We want your skills to work. You keep your skills, we'll keep ours. If something is broken, you fix it. You don't tape a broken toaster to a broken refridgerator and say that they both are working, do you? So why put together two professions which have almost nothing in common? You tame creatures, I slaughter them wholesale and then rip the flesh from their bones. Two entirely different ideas on what to do with tameable creatures.
/agree
absoulutly the best analogy yet! People need to quit trying to fix there profs by breaking others. leave Ranger alone its fine! it just needs a few small fixes and tweeks.
Gee - from my point of view CH is pretty damned useless. No one wants mounts anymore, unless they like going slow. I run faster than some, especially up hills. Pets in combat? Laughably useless, all they do is stand there and die, and all too quickly for them to be useful tanks even.
CH takes up a fair amount of points so that they are fairly useless in combat. Combined with useless pets that let leakers by and they die really fast.
How about they make all the CHs into farmers. They can raise psuedochickens and robas and maybe herd nerfs. Yeah, that would be a good deal for them.
/sarcasm off
the original poster should speak not of what he has no knowledge of. Best he should continue to tame small animals and make nice with them, before some mean old Ranger follows him and kills all the little beasties, as we do best.
JB