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Thread: contemplating ranger

Dafushpu
Sat Jun 19, 2004 2:20 am
#1

i am about to be able to master scout again (i was bounty hunting for a while) and i was wanting to go ranger for the creature harvesting as a money maker. is it worth it? i have read these forums and talked to the few rangers i have seen about how buggy and broken this prof is and i was just curious if i would be better off doing something else.


any feedback would be nice.



if you are jedi and you complain, i have one question for you. how many remember permadeth, kenetic damage lightsabers, and lightsaber TEFs?
DaiShanCazador
Sat Jun 19, 2004 3:05 am
#2

Ranger is not for everyone. In fact, I'm quickly learning that it's not for me. In your case, I don't think you should get ranger. If you want to hunt and harvest for money get a harvesting droid. The droids out-harvest master ranegrs anyway. Which is actually another major issue with this profession. Our one major way to make money, and anyone can basically match us (or better us) without any ranger skills whatsoever.



~Kreell Keiser (ArO)
Teras Kasi Master/ Master Doctor
Master Doc Providing Discounted Buffs to Imperials since... yesterday.
Corbantis

But this one goes to eleven.
DiscoJason
Sat Jun 19, 2004 10:21 am
#3

Having taken a big break from this game, I didn't realize the harvesting droids outharvested Rangers. In fact, I was under the impression they could only be used by Rangers. That makes me sad, because Rangers didn't have much to the profession to begin with and now they have lost something else.
DaiShanCazador
Sat Jun 19, 2004 10:57 pm
#4

I don't know the exact specifics, but even if they can only be used by rangers, all someone really needs in novice ranger.



~Kreell Keiser (ArO)
Teras Kasi Master/ Master Doctor
Master Doc Providing Discounted Buffs to Imperials since... yesterday.
Corbantis

But this one goes to eleven.
MonsofoLexius
Sat Jun 19, 2004 11:08 pm
#5

Master Scout with Droid can out harvest (or close to it) a Master Ranget without droid, but a Master Ranger with the same droid.....



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Dafushpu
Sun Jun 20, 2004 1:46 pm
#6

so, why be a ranger at all? i'm curious as to why anybody would stick to this profession if it is pretty much useless.



if you are jedi and you complain, i have one question for you. how many remember permadeth, kenetic damage lightsabers, and lightsaber TEFs?
MonsofoLexius
Sun Jun 20, 2004 2:02 pm
#7






Dafushpu wrote:

so, why be a ranger at all? i'm curious as to why anybody would stick to this profession if it is pretty much useless.







Good question.


"Ranger, it is not a Profession. It is a way of life"




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- In rememberance of our friend, Luckky Johnson (Toni Sinclair)
"Every day I feel like I am opening a present when
I double-click the SWG icon"
-Vorpaks
Thanks bud...now, about the Garment habit of yours. You need an intervention! - Calculus_Entropy /flex - n'Jessi
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DarinW
Sun Jun 20, 2004 3:39 pm
#8

If you're looking for reasons to talk yourself out of becoming a Master ranger, I'm sure there's plenty of info to help you, but if you 'want' to become a Master ranger, that's probably the best reason of all to go ahead and do it.
Fugue
Sun Jun 20, 2004 4:01 pm
#9

rare is the harvesting droid that can augment the Master Ranger to a useful degree, but that's a topic done in great detail on other threads..

I think MonsofoLexius' sig says it best... Ranger isn't a profession as much as it is a way of life.

I've been a Ranger on one server or another since July 03.. and of all the professions then and now, it's about as Broke as Broke gets.

If you just want a boost to your harvesting, take the Tracking tree and nothing else, and use the remaining skill points elsewhere.

But if you have a calling somewhere inside you (many fellow rangers on this board share it) that you can't quite explain to others who wonder why you spend 63 skill points on a profession that is technically languishing in limbo, then welcome aboard.

Ranger requires you to bring more to it than it brings to you. It is a role, an attitude, a state of mind. It's a belief and a calling.

If this appeals to you, then go for it. You'll find us a friendly, helpful lot endowed with a preternatural patience (which is sometimes taxed, of course).

If this doesn't appeal to you, then thanks for at least looking at the profession in a non-grinding manner!

Hope this helps.



~Halbarad GreyMouser, Ranger/Rifleman, Naritus
~Hagerin GreyMouser, Doctor/TK; Naritus
buzzlo
Sun Jun 20, 2004 9:32 pm
#10






Dafushpu wrote:

so, why be a ranger at all? i'm curious as to why anybody would stick to this profession if it is pretty much useless.





Pretty much useless....naaaaa....Im not going to echo everyone else...oh well yes I am ........


ITS AN ATTITUDE....PERSONALITY.....WAY OF LIFE!!!! It just works for us!!


My .02 is we (RANGERS) are getting much more out of the game than the rest of the DRONE HOLOGRINDNG MASSES!!!


T21 rifle 500k


SWOOP 25 k


BE CAMO SUIT 300k


Expression on someones face the first time the see a HTFB................priceless!!





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QUOTE NUCKMAN "meat doesnt grow on trees =)"


//BUZZLITEBEER - MASTER RIFLEMAN/MASTER RANGER
HUNTMASTER of BEGGARS CANYON
//HAME - MASTER DROID ENGINEER/MASTER MERCHANT
Visit our mall TODAY 2380 5000 @ the start of the MOS ESPA SWOOP TRACK
Montdakota
Sun Jun 20, 2004 9:45 pm
#11






buzzlo wrote:





Dafushpu wrote:

so, why be a ranger at all? i'm curious as to why anybody would stick to this profession if it is pretty much useless.





Pretty much useless....naaaaa....Im not going to echo everyone else...oh well yes I am ........


ITS AN ATTITUDE....PERSONALITY.....WAY OF LIFE!!!! It just works for us!!


My .02 is we (RANGERS) are getting much more out of the game than the rest of the DRONE HOLOGRINDNG MASSES!!!


T21 rifle 500k


SWOOP 25 k


BE CAMO SUIT 300k


Expression on someones face the first time the see a HTFB................priceless!!








/Applaud!!!


Well put Buzzlo



The Warrior Creed

by Robert L. Humphrey

Wherever I go, everyone is a little bit safer because I am there. Wherever I am, anyone in need has a friend. Whenever I return home everyone is happy I am there.
It's a better life.
Fred_Skinner
Mon Jun 21, 2004 8:40 am
#12

Shhhh.... not so LOUD. Gonna scare the Avian Meat away...

Ok, it's like this: no one gets Ranger for a benifit other then that tracking skill, and we got that on the first revamp, imagine us old foeggies that decided to go for it on day one... er... day two. You get Master Ranger because that name, in itself, sounds cool. It's a RP thing. You can still make money, and with the right combo of combat profs and buffing you can near what non-masters can do, but never quite as good. True, you won't be PvP but some of us are working on that. If you can be patient, perhaps help us with making Ranger better then you might like it. If you are looking for the power game, move along, you are not going to find it here.




Frederick Skinner
Antarian Ranger, Ranger(0030), Master Rifleman, CH(4214)
Ranger is not a profession. It's a lifestyle.


Dafushpu
Tue Jun 22, 2004 11:31 pm
#13

thanks for all your help and advice. you rangers need love from the devs. i'm not going to do ranger as i wanted it for a money making profession. but, you guys have fun. hopefully i will see some of your ubercamps around and i will stop by to play.


see you on the next avian meat shift.



if you are jedi and you complain, i have one question for you. how many remember permadeth, kenetic damage lightsabers, and lightsaber TEFs?
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