Creature Handler Archive
Thread: CH without Ranger?!
....i feel TOTALLY SILLY!
do you know the two times i mastered creature handler, i never even THOUGHT of how useful it would have been to have 0030 Ranger
man....
I used to be MCH + Ranger 3040 + Pistoleer 0440 - or was it 0340? Anyway, I've always maintained that no two professions complement each other as CH and Ranger do. Even post CU -except for combat. Which is why Ifelt I had to give up my Ranger skillsfor Master Pistoleer so that I could beeffective in combat
I really, really, really miss being Ranger. But I find thatI do get by without the tracking skills. But I really, really, really miss being Ranger.
But as you said can't have much of a combat profession to go with that combo.
Shame they can't combine Ranger and CH together. It makes sense to me. How often do you see that grizzled woodsman with a pet? Grizzly Adams with that bear and all those other animals, anybody remember that show? I would say a fair amount of 'Rangers' have a love of the wilds (of course) and animals as well.
With the two of them combined, Ranger could now have some combat skills without resorting to taking another combat one just to be able to harvest and do other Rangerly things.
I have BH/CH/Ranger 0030
And the area track can be usefull but if you are fighting a lot not realy worth all the skillpoints.
I took up ranger for the mask scent and area track but i am thinking to drop it and use the points in an other skill.
The mask scent is a bit better but also noth worth it when trying to hide from CL65-80 creatures and will give a problem with taming in that CL area.
Iakimo wrote:
I've never had any Ranger skills. I just can't spare the skill points for the Master Scout prereqs and a skill that gives no combat proficiency. But I am getting along well enough. It's frustrating to not be able to view creatures' stats the way rangers do, especially with CH'sability to view resistances and special attacks as broken as they are now. But I am finding tameables without Area Track. It just takes me longer, but it still is fun in it's own way. More like a journey of discovery. And a friend of mine who does have Ranger tells me the range on Area Track (only 500 meters or so) isn't anything special. With that, I am almost as functional just using my Tab key to target the creatures that spawn around me.
But pets make a nice complement for me as a strong combatant. Now, if only the devs would getting around to fixing their broken specials and invisible resistances....
Well, after the CU rangers don't see anything more than anyone else (at least with scout since I've never dropped that) on the creature's stats. Maybe that has changed...
500m radius isn't a bad thing. That equals 1km diameter. Areatrack, when used correctly, was a very useful skill. Like I said, though, I wouldn't recommend spending the sp for it. Unless you just like being a ranger.