Ranger Archive

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Nemo0 wrote:
I know that I still love being a Ranger. It is not the most glamorous profession (or even the most useful) but few other professions have the same community. Rangers are kind to each other. In PVP, the Ranger title has saved me (and others) from being incapped/deathblowed quite a few times. Many servers are setting up Ranger PA's (do a search for Antarian Ranger). As for Master Rangers always giving up their titles: On Eclipse, I am more likely to run into a Master Ranger than a Novice Ranger (doing the random search for Rangers). I like Ranger for what it stands for and the people it attracts. It is bugged and gated but so what? I am more effective than I need to be and have no trouble getting into groups. As for money, I have enough now that I just give my resources to friends. Ranger is not a skill tree to pick up for the power players. It is a tree for the explorer. And I love it.

Lythender Nirou
Master Ranger/CH (4/4/2/4)/Rifleman (3/0/0/0)
Eclipse Server

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Really? I get incapped and deathblowed everyday in pvp and being a ranger(i wear this title over my pistoleer one) For 140 skill points i got jack and squat and the only good skill i got from ranger is tracking. All the rest add to my pve experience alot but they do nothing at all for my pvp experience. I'm sorry pal this is star wars and the professions need to reflect that. There is almost no pve content at all. Killing creature xx0001 doesn't do a thing for me. It's a way to level and make some cash when you need it and nothing more. PVE has never been this game's strong point and it never ever will be. This game is about a war, the Galactic CIvil War to be more precise. Rangers have the skills to be like the antarian rangers and the myriad of other military scout professions that were in the novels and movies. What is lacking is being able to use them in the war, PVP. It's a simple request really, just a bit of code that needs it's flags changed to let us use what we already have in pvp. I get my butt chewed up by creatures in pvp to say the least about the players. Rangers masters of killing creatures? feh we suck at it, any CH pet can waste me in pvp. Why should my traps work on players and pets? Because if we can't take care of the pet and it's owner one or the other is going to kill us while we are occupied with the other.

Personally i think most of you anti pvp folks areselfish, nobody said if you get pvp skills you have to use them in pvp or are forced to pvp. You could still do anything you have always done with those skills. Your opinions reak of a BH or CH who wants to keep us out of pvp because you are afraid your dominance will fade a bit.

And low and behold i check what forums you post in and find that you indeed are a CH.

I was even accused the other day of being a BH because i had the hunt master title up.

Nothing i said could convince him otherwise, how does that make you feel that a ranger title has become synonomous wuth bounty hunters?

When i wore the frontierman title nobody even knew what i was, they always asked what a frontiersman was? Same goes for every title i have, people think i'm either a scout or a bounty hunter until i throw up a high tech field base camp they have no clue what i am.

Your idea that we should be PVE only only serves to undermine our development as there is only so much pve in the game. Soon as you master your profession and pve is your only game your game is effectively over. This is why so many rangers drop their skills.

Other professions ask why should they master their profession, we ask why should we keep it at all?

Let me clear something up--I don't mean to say that I want Rangers to stay PvE only. I agree that the class does need work. I'm just saying that, even as it stands, I enjoy being a Ranger. And I am an almost master CH as well. That helps me stay alive and fight. I agree that we are currently gated. That doesn't mean I can't enjoy what we do have. And the small number of Rangers is partially due to your server. There is a very small percentage of Rangers on Eclipse but the total number of players means that I see quite a few. Sorry if I misrepresented what I was saying. Let me make myself clear--Ranger does need alot of work to be effective but I still enjoy the class and don't plan on dropping it.

Lythender Nirou
Master Ranger/CH (4/4/2/4)/Rifleman (3/0/0/0)

We have 3 Master rangers in our PA alone (plus myself as a novice), so maybe it's just you're server.

But saying that, I only plan to master trapping and tracking and half of frontiering because:-

A. /conceal is bugged to bits, masked scent works just fine.
B. The high tech field base kit is just a prettier version of the normal field base kit, and the anti-agro thing does squat.
C. For all my hard work I want more than just a dathomir camo kit.

And I get killed so much in PvP and PvE I'm ashamed to say I'm also going the CH and BH route until something is down about it

I'd love to go full master ranger but at the mo it's just not worth it.