Ranger Archive

As I was going through the "in development" section I noticed they there was no mention of improvements on the page. Now I am new to this class (just finished level 1 in all parts :smileyhappy and I have been reading about all the ideas for imporvements in the class (which I agree right now is only an scout who's read and extra book or two in his life about animals). My question is are the devs paying any attention to us?

Rangers haven't exactly been on the main board complaining and moaning. The main board is filled with posts from creature handlers, bounty hunters, commandos, droid enginners, bio enginners and such. Thus...most of the fixes are for them.

Granted, some of those professions are almost unplayable at the moment (commandos). But still, the squeaky wheel gets the grease.

Honestly compaired to some of the REALLY broken classes Rangers aren't so bad off. Not to mention it seems most rangers are pretty cool people that don't whine about every little thing wrong with their class. Also there were some change in development section for us, they are just under the scout. Since all a ranger is is a souped up scout most/all of the scout changes apply to us as well.

Rangers have issues, but I would definitely put Commandos up for fixing first. The issues we face are pretty trivial compared to what they have to deal with.

For the most part people should have known what they were getting into before they became rangers. You can look through the skillsets, and quite frankly they are not the most exciting. That should be changed for sure, but we do have a couple glaring issues that I am beginning to get frustrated with. The primary one is Conceal. I mean, we are supposed to be the class that "goes anywhere unseen" yet I am _Always_ getting detected during my travels. It's ridiculous. If this one skill was back in the game and working, I would feel a lot more patient about getting the other issues resolved. At least then we could say, "Yeah we suck, but hey we can move anywhere we want without fear".

I haven't met an immature or D00D ranger yet! Kind of nice playing a class that isn't big with the Min/Max crowd! Although I agree, I'd like to see some improvements made for us. Most of the ones I'd like to see have already been suggested. Keep up the good work fellow rangers!

I'd have to agree with all the above. Every other person I've met working through the Ranger Onion has been very cool, not some 1337 D00D.

Would I like to see our class get some love.. of course.. but there are other VERY broken classes. At least we can somewhat survive with other skills (CH, Rifle/Pistol/Carbine..etc.).

We'll get our boost, and if the devs even add 1/4 of what's in Mineras's first weekly report, we'll get a huge boost.

Still, I'd like the Wilderness to be as safe to us as the city is to the rest. Right now, that isn't true really...

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ReptileSpit wrote:

Rangers haven't exactly been on the main board complaining and moaning. The main board is filled with posts from creature handlers, bounty hunters, commandos, droid enginners, bio enginners and such. Thus...most of the fixes are for them.

Granted, some of those professions are almost unplayable at the moment (commandos). But still, the squeaky wheel gets the grease.

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Hehe.. please leave bounty hunters off that list. If you actually read the In Dev report you'll see there isn't a BH section either. One single line that says our specials are getting looked at.

That said... I hope Rangers get some serious lovin. I've always played a ranger before and would love to have a reason to come back.

Next to Commandos, BE, DEs, others, we are lookin quite good.

We're Rangers, we're stoic. If they give us some new benefits we'll probably just tip our hats to the devs and get back in the woods.

There are some improvements to Camping XP. Keep in mind that any improvement to the Scout Profession is an improvement to the Ranger (most like more so.)

I would agree, the Ranger is far from being a "broken" or "useless" class like Cammandos and Droid Engineers, we just are not realy "unique." We just do things better then regular scouts. At least Doctors, which do things better then Medics, do things signifcantly better and in less time. Also they do get resurect and some other Gimicks. We just get a realy nice looking camp.

At least we can advacne and become Master Rangers without much "useless" grinding.

-gustavef

Yup, we are a *mostly* working class that just doesn't have a lot of content. With camps being fixed in the next big patch, and I think traps as well, basically everything we have will be working fine...its just we don't have a lot outside of stat bonuses. Thats where our feedback comes in to help the decide where to take the class.

And one thing thats nice to remember with us few rangers...we can only get better as time goes on...no fear of nerfing for our proffession lol.

Rangers unite! Seriously I think Rangers take the problems we may have with our class the best. With the new fixes, that should help us, although we could use maybe some added bonuses, why wait for Master Ranger for the Ranged/melee defense bonuses? Maybe tack some of that a little earlier too.

As for Mask Scent, it only works against Aggro creatures. And I had Wayfaring II, trust me, it does work. Sometimes it can fail against really high level creatures, but TRUST me it has saved me more then a few times on planets like Endor and Lok. Really it's meant for those planets, it DOES work, but ONLY for RED/AGGRO creatures. I ran through 7 Squills successfully and slapped each of them close up, scent worked fine against them. Thats just plain fun. Although I do think our Camo should work a little better...

" I see your Schwartz is as big as mine... "

Erisk Bosann, Ranger/Pistoleer/CH - Lance Corporal Rebel Alliance (For now...)