Ranger Archive
Thread: We should be able to do this.
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DaveG
Sat Jul 24, 2004 5:04 pm
#15
Joebob669 got treat very harshly up this thread. Unfairly so.
In reply to the guy who replied first, I'm sure if Aragon was trained properly and practiced enough, then he *could* use a T21 rifle.
Rangers are supposed to be the profession that is the master of the out doors. We can bend the environment such that we thrive. So far we can do without doctors, by just sitting in our camp (and presumably we doing something to heal our wounds) our wounds drift away. Nice. Added to this we can find food in land or water. It is perfectly logical that we should be able to put that food to use. At the moment, we just get pointless little buffs. However either eating raw, or crafting, poison/disease antidotes is a very natural progression of our skills. This could be taken two ways. Our antidoes could be universal, which would indirectly make us viable in PvP as we could counter combat medic attacks. *OR* our antidotes could be restricted to creature-inficted toxins so as to keep the ranger profession out of PvP. Furthermore, since we can apply our cammo-kits to non-ranger players, then we should be able to do the same with antidotes. This kind of brings us into the realm of a quasi-medic by creating 'natural' remedies.
All of this is what brings the ranger into being a very valuable member of any sort of safari trip. Which personally, I think is where ranger should be. People rely on us for tracking and mass harvesting, but we can and should be able to do more!
Almagill
Sat Jul 24, 2004 7:20 pm
#16
/cheer and /hug for JoeBob. Poor bloke. Thought he'd make a suggestion and got savaged royally by a cut down wookiee 
I'll vote for his proposal. Yup. Will do. No worries. No matter how often its suggested.
As for peoples preconceptions of what a Ranger is?
For some it conjures a US military unit, for others a swords'n'sorcery archer come walker about a lot, and, living where I do, Rangers are a football team. Mix that lot together and you'd probably STILL come up with somebody thats more viable in SWG than us, lol.
RIght, am off to dance in a cantina and scare people by not being afk
I'll vote for his proposal. Yup. Will do. No worries. No matter how often its suggested.
As for peoples preconceptions of what a Ranger is?
For some it conjures a US military unit, for others a swords'n'sorcery archer come walker about a lot, and, living where I do, Rangers are a football team. Mix that lot together and you'd probably STILL come up with somebody thats more viable in SWG than us, lol.
RIght, am off to dance in a cantina and scare people by not being afk
Ranger_Nizzle
Sat Jul 24, 2004 11:23 pm
#17
/rant
Aragorn can do anything, ok!?!?!?!?!?!!!!
*rapid breathing* calm down, taeko, calm down... *cough*
umm
about justifying idea sbased on SW rangers, I wouldn't mind doing that but there is little to no stuff about them. if we can get someone to post a few links or direct us to some info that would be great.
KaiRaene
Sun Jul 25, 2004 6:43 am
#18
I dont see why we couldnt build a schematic based system similar to camo kits that are only available for use bya Ranger. Perhaps in the Camo line we could add a progression tree similar to Camo. But, at Master we then are able to apply a poison/disease slowing schmatic to other players. Before then only to ourselves. Also, these kits couldnt be applied in combat. That reserves the right for docs and combat medics to do their thing.
Unless they revamp the forage system I wouldnt care to add anything from it to the list of schematic needs. Say, we need some Dathmirian fungus, Dath herb meat, and Advanced Biological effect controller. This way Artisans/Doctors get their way to help with our profession by providing flora resources and crated doc components. These would be available at Master for application to other players. Before that we could make crude substances to apply to ourselves to allieviate the small amount of poison/disease we get due to contact with such creatures. This is of course if our future resists to poisons and diseases fail us. /sigh
I dropped Rifleman for TKM just so I could be able to heal my own wounds faster and get the ability to stop disease and poison. I dont like it either. Sure its a great profession with powerboots and force of will but I shouldnt HAVE to have a profession to make up for the short comingof my favorite one. I hate standing at a starport with 7-8 other TK somethings. I am ashamed to have turned to the FOTM but hey thats what I have to do.
Thinking bout going Pistoleer some and keeping the meditate line.
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