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Thread: what!? 400m tracking?
agent156 wrote:
You'll also notice that just cause your radar can get that big dosn't mean it shows every thing in that range.
QFE
Also when you are tracking and the critter you are tracking is right next to you but doesn't show up; backup about 101m and track again. 
In all seriousness, it's better to have tracking than to not have it.
ummm...you zoom your radar out a bunch, and it might show you the dots, but it doesn't tell you what they are. If you're hunting for a specific resouce, you only want to kill certain creatures. If you're doing the village quests, you only want to kill certain NPCs. If you're doing a BH mission, you only want to find a single player. Here's what you do. Have a Ranger friend and you go to a busy city. Have a third friend go hide. Now both of you go and try to find your friend, you just using your radar, and the Ranger using areatrack.
guess who's gonna win?
areatrack is immeasurably valuable.
Phenix1050 wrote:
ummm...you zoom your radar out a bunch, and it might show you the dots, but it doesn't tell you what they are. If you're hunting for a specific resouce, you only want to kill certain creatures. If you're doing the village quests, you only want to kill certain NPCs. If you're doing a BH mission, you only want to find a single player. Here's what you do. Have a Ranger friend and you go to a busy city. Have a third friend go hide. Now both of you go and try to find your friend, you just using your radar, and the Ranger using areatrack.
guess who's gonna win?
areatrack is immeasurably valuable.
/findfriend for teh win!!!!!
Phenix1050 wrote:
ummm...you zoom your radar out a bunch, and it might show you the dots, but it doesn't tell you what they are. If you're hunting for a specific resouce, you only want to kill certain creatures. If you're doing the village quests, you only want to kill certain NPCs. If you're doing a BH mission, you only want to find a single player. Here's what you do. Have a Ranger friend and you go to a busy city. Have a third friend go hide. Now both of you go and try to find your friend, you just using your radar, and the Ranger using areatrack.
guess who's gonna win?
areatrack is immeasurably valuable.
set radar to about 500m then enlarge it to fill most of the screen
now drag your mouse over the dot - it'll tell you what the creature is
that said - i still use areatrack because like others of said, not all the dots appear on your radar all the time
Phenix1050 wrote:
ummm...you zoom your radar out a bunch, and it might show you the dots, but it doesn't tell you what they are. If you're hunting for a specific resouce, you only want to kill certain creatures. If you're doing the village quests, you only want to kill certain NPCs. If you're doing a BH mission, you only want to find a single player. Here's what you do. Have a Ranger friend and you go to a busy city. Have a third friend go hide. Now both of you go and try to find your friend, you just using your radar, and the Ranger using areatrack.
guess who's gonna win?
areatrack is immeasurably valuable.
Phenix1050 wrote:ummm...you zoom your radar out a bunch, and it might show you the dots, but it doesn't tell you what they are. If you're hunting for a specific resouce, you only want to kill certain creatures. If you're doing the village quests, you only want to kill certain NPCs. If you're doing a BH mission, you only want to find a single player. Here's what you do. Have a Ranger friend and you go to a busy city. Have a third friend go hide. Now both of you go and try to find your friend, you just using your radar, and the Ranger using areatrack.
guess who's gonna win?
areatrack is immeasurably valuable.
You've not dragged your mouse over the radar then?
Or run a macro that has /target {friendsname} in? Works great in cities. (unless your friend has a name that starts bone, craft, terminal.... :/ )
(I'd still rather have areatrack though( and I'd much rather they'd think twice before using the abbreviatons for our dang skills for other stuff, area taunt??? ))
Note to self, start reading threads from the end backwards.
Message Edited by Almagill on 06-18-2005 12:27 AM
/target corpse
/harvest hide;
also works great when something drops dead in the side of a hill.
One of our few abilities that work and work well....dont knock it....This is actually the most used ability by me...I love it.
Maleki > Master Ranger > Radiant
Phek > Novice Ranger > Eclipse
Wale wrote:
One of our few abilities that work and work well....dont knock it....This is actually the most used ability by me...I love it.
Maleki > Master Ranger > Radiant
Phek > Novice Ranger > Eclipse
Phenix1050 wrote:ummm...you zoom your radar out a bunch, and it might show you the dots, but it doesn't tell you what they are. If you're hunting for a specific resouce, you only want to kill certain creatures. If you're doing the village quests, you only want to kill certain NPCs. If you're doing a BH mission, you only want to find a single player. Here's what you do. Have a Ranger friend and you go to a busy city. Have a third friend go hide. Now both of you go and try to find your friend, you just using your radar, and the Ranger using areatrack.
guess who's gonna win?
areatrack is immeasurably valuable.
... but can be replaced by macros and /or the radar.
Hover your mouse over the dots on the radar, you get the info you want.
Use /findfriend
Use /target "creature/npc/pc" ( I never find a creature first when in a group due to tracking. I have to get of my mount, track, rinse repeat while the other groupmembers just zoom around doing /target )
In a city, with /target playername, I'll be next our friend before you stop waving your hand around the second time
Areatrack is only valuable if you really want it to be and ignore other game-mechanocs because of your playstyle
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