Ranger Archive

I want to think different, when its all said and done I think we will still be needed for the smart hunters, wise and smart.

Lets face it, by the time you take on a few nightsisters, if one has a rifle your in trouble by the time your off the bike.

I like to be hired By smart ones, We know how to hunt and time things, as well as conceal it takes time to master this not by the title either per sea.

We will be fine over time I think.

I agree with the first poster... I think the ranger has lost a lot with this patch.

before i would look for a ranger to help me find specific creatures or to be the one to give the group camps so we can get back in the action faster. But now, most hunts have speederbikes.. its actualy faster to zoom back to base, get healed, reequip and return at gonzo speed to your hunting spot.

No longer do i need a ranger to track a specific creature, for I can find it three times faster by just driving around the place in my bike.

ranger traps, imo, never did nothing for a group, as groups kill stuff so fast the ranger traps dont have much use, perhaps in small groups of 1 to 3 people, but any bigger they dont really work.

Rangers perhaps, i would look for now just to harvest for me.

imo, the ranger should have more combat and support related abilities.

They have rescue and to-hit creatures bonuses.. but for a group thats rather useless since only the ranger has this ability..and rescue is of limited use, perhaps to save the medic in the group, but thats about it.

for combat abilities i'd suggest making the ranger GIVE the group the creature to-hit bonuses. give them special, 'mine' like traps that can be used vs npcs, creatures and players (think booby traps) that deal damage or immobilize a target. give them battlefield fortification kits (made by architechts, deployable by rangers only) that will put up a small base that has a few turrets (very low level turrets of course, shooting for 100 pnts of damage, having 2k ham each) for defense, a garage for vehicle repair and a medcenter and cantina.

I personally have been wondering about the Ranger profession also with this last patch. I am not yet a master and am only 2/2/3/2. I am not doing this for holo but just cause it sounded like a neat profession. It was to me the sort of profession to travel around with others showing off neat areas, leading a group after a particular creature or just finding a spot in the wilderness and setting a camp to create a small place of rest and healing for travellers. But with vehicles and the new POI waypoints just given to you what is our use now? I know half of my fun was finding the POI places. A Ranger in my guild taking a bunch of us on a tour of POI's on Tat was one of the things that made me want to become Ranger so that I could bring some of the same enjoyment. Now anyone can jump on a speederbike and activate the waypoints from a datapad and see every POI on a planet in an hour or so with no problems.

Here is what will be next....

/emote hands SOE $14.95

/emoteasks "Could you please play my character for me too. It is just too hard to logon and do it myself."

As my grandfather used to say "You will never enjoy something more then when you have to work hard to get it."