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MasterArtisanPell

Tue Aug 23, 2005 11:37 am

One of the reasonswhy I WANT to become a Ranger is because of how rare the proffession is. I have only ever seen 2 Master Rangers in my year of playing SWG. Its always fun to have skills that not to many people have.

Pell Vim/Oevesp

Elder Ranger - May the Ranger's spirit always live on!

Radiant

Serraphin

Tue Aug 23, 2005 1:05 pm

#15

Lorrowyn wrote:

Ranger is one of those professions that as soon as it's fixed and "cool " again, you'll see a large amount of people playing.

But, while I dropped my MCH in favor of Master Rifleman, Cryos Merovingian and his band of Rangers on Naritus give me a continual reason to keep the profession, even if it's not "cool" yet.

WOOKIEE RANGER POWER!!!

Unfortunately I hope you are not holding your breath for that day. There has been many promises made regarding this including the ones I dug up for Calc, then Tiggs in her welcome post a response to me that I would be surprised in the future (over 1 year ago), shrotly after that Fred Skinner =) said about 6 months. The list of positive posts to a Ranger revamp, fix, or revision has a long and profound history with no real success if any.

Fixes come but in an order somewhat along these lines:

1. Major Game Bugs

2. Fixes to revenue generating professions (e.g. Jedi)

3. Fixes to profession supporting in game economy (e.g. Weaponsmith)

4. New Content

5. Bugs resulting from new content

6. Other popular professions

7. Non combat professions that generate revenue from the social aspects of the game

8. Unpopular professions that have no effect on revenue generation and marginal to no impact on ingame economy (e.g. Ranger)

Personally I don't see any changes coming for Ranger anytime in the next 18-24 months

Message Edited by Serraphin on 08-23-2005 03:17 PM

Bethya

Tue Aug 23, 2005 3:08 pm

#16

>>Personally I don't see any changes coming for Ranger anytime in th enext 18-24 months

I agree with you. I have always expected that a revamp will never come and so have judged whether to play or not on what it is like now, not what it could be.

Ultimately, SWG are running a business and as much as we might hate the way they have screwed the Star Wars timeline or continually make it more fun to be a jedi (again screwing the timeline in the process) or focus their resources on combat to the detriment of other professions, they do so because that is where the money is.

sand, soil and sea
d'nara ci-iki, master ranger, FarStar

Keep watch over the worlds, Encourage the faithful, Restore the lost, Build up the community;
so that you may be amongst those who are truly known as a Master Ranger.

Dyrwen

Tue Aug 23, 2005 4:45 pm

#17

Novelty be darned, I still boast that I can kill any animal in the game to any friend who laughs when I say I died again to another person in pvp, heh. Or, as I tell anyone I lose to.. "You're lucky I can't trap people."

Yeah, we get an interesting look from folks, but I guess I appreciate being semi rare. Gives me something to look forward to; not seeing another one of me around. I've been thinking of becoming MSL MR just for the novelty, since I don't exactly like MBH but it does work..

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BinaryTuna

Tue Aug 23, 2005 7:46 pm

#18

Temujin23 wrote:

Lorrowyn wrote:

Ranger is one of those professions that as soon as it's fixed and "cool " again, you'll see a large amount of people playing.

But, while I dropped my MCH in favor of Master Rifleman, Cryos Merovingian and his band of Rangers on Naritus give me a continual reason to keep the profession, even if it's not "cool" yet.

WOOKIEE RANGER POWER!!!

Cryos and his 'band of Rangers'? WHAT THE HELL!!???!!111!11

al-djinn'i

Master Ranger/Way Cooler Than Cryos

Does this mean we'll have to start wearing green tights now?

Reybekk Ferran
Naritus
Master Ranger/Master Rifleman

"I sent a Ranger to deal with the riot."
"You only sent one Ranger?"
"There's only one riot."

Carason

Wed Aug 24, 2005 12:28 am

#19

JBMat wrote:

So the insane Ranger (me) is out in a group hunt on Dant. We encounter a Dark Jedi Master... well encounter is a nice way of saying I pizzed him off by riding my swoop over him.

So I am in combat and the DJM follows me to the mission site. We have a full group, no one under 50 and have been kicking major butt. It's only a level 113 Master, so what can go wrong.

Oh yeah, I am still in combat, so proceed to do the only truly great Ranger skill that works in PvP. I run. I run up and down hills, I run fast, then faster. I may have made "woohoo" noises, I am not real sure. All this was in a 30 meter circle around my groupo. My group mates stayed in the center of my circle and plain old wore the DJM out. We dropped states on him, knocked him down, rooted him, snared him, bled him, and finally dropped him.

Two of the group were laughing at me. Funny thing, I suffered less than 250 points in damage the entire time.

Yes, we are rare. Rare to that two Masters in one town is once again cause for wonder. But yanno, we do have fun.

JB

Same thing happened to me the other night... I wasin agroup (group of 6, mostly 50-60 level, I'm an 80), had just finished a mission, and I was going to call it a night, but on the way back to the Mining Outpost, I ran over a purple con... DJM. So, I figured... Eh, why not, never tried to solo one, but here it goes.... I took a shot at him and started running...I was doing really well hitting him with Cripple, and the occasional knockdown, but due to all the little hills in the area, I got alot of the "cannot see target" messages (NOT good with their regen rates), so every time I missed an opportunity to hit him, he'd regain a ton of health.

I was still in my group, so I sent out a call for help.. something broken up into 1 word group tells... "HELP"... "DJM".... "need backup", or something. They came running (dont think any of them had ever taken one out before). I only had been able to get about 1/5th of the damage done up to this point, but then they jumped in the middle of the circle and started taking pot-shots at him. There were a couple times he got within 20m of me, and I figured ... if I miss the KD/cripple on this next shot.. I'm DEAD, but luckily, I never missed on those shots. A few minutes later, we dropped him.

We did a little group /cheer around the corpse, and I got a Quality Crystal out of the deal. Amazing how handy the terrain negotiation is when you've got an angry dude ready to hit you for 8k damagechasing you for 10 minutes.

Carason - *FORMER 12pt Master AS (RIS Certified) / *FORMER 12pt Master WS
Jai' - Master Ranger/Elder Jedi, Kyan' - Master BH/Master Rifleman
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Temujin23

Wed Aug 24, 2005 12:53 am

#20

Lorrowyn wrote:

Ranger is one of those professions that as soon as it's fixed and "cool " again, you'll see a large amount of people playing.

But, while I dropped my MCH in favor of Master Rifleman, Cryos Merovingian and his band of Rangers on Naritus give me a continual reason to keep the profession, even if it's not "cool" yet.

WOOKIEE RANGER POWER!!!

Cryos and his 'band of Rangers'? WHAT THE HELL!!???!!111!11

al-djinn'i

Master Ranger/Way Cooler Than Cryos

Wake up! Time to die.

groundcrew

Wed Aug 24, 2005 4:43 am

#21

Bethya wrote:

So, I'm messing about in the shallows, checking things out, seeing if I do make a full blown return to SWG. Seeing as my old townmates have all basically left (or most of them), I up sticks and decide to go looking for a new home.

I wander into Bestine to get myself a new bank account and dump some stuff and promptly get laughed at by a group of random individuals who seem to be congregating outside the starport entrance.

Tin-can A: "Master Ranger?... do they still exist?"

Tin-can B: "Must be a bug"

Tin-can C: "My alt used to be one but not worth it now"

Much chortling and discussion later about the good things that Rangers can do for others (like tracking... apparently... they think it's a highly useful skill...obviously never spent an hour looking unsuccessfully for the Pirate Captain), I was on my way again.

Are we such a rarity these days that we've reached the status of novelty character?

Yea,I get the same thing every now and again. Kids love to make fun till they watch a lvl 70 Ranger / BH solo hunting on Dathomir and Endore. On Wander home Rangers seem to be makeing a comback of sorts. I've seen about 5 in the past week.

Flakk Gun:Elder Ranger
Improvise, Adapt, and Overcome

"My camps may be gone and my cammo changed to Vanish....But I still have my rifle, I still have my love of hunting...and the outdoors, and THAT is what makes me a Ranger."

groundcrew

Wed Aug 24, 2005 4:51 am

#22

Ragao wrote:
i always try to start a conversation with anybody that has a master ranger tag because i dont see many on my server. i havent gotten much response though, maybe im not leet enough for those uber folks

If you have it wear your scout tag. It helps to break the ice a bit. I rarely ever converse with jeeteye. If i see a saber I walk the other way. Its nothing personal, I just hate getting tells from the kiddies asking for an "I win" button for Krayts.

Flakk Gun:Elder Ranger
Improvise, Adapt, and Overcome

"My camps may be gone and my cammo changed to Vanish....But I still have my rifle, I still have my love of hunting...and the outdoors, and THAT is what makes me a Ranger."

Ech0Witch

Wed Aug 24, 2005 5:19 am

#23

Does this mean we'll have to start wearing green tights now?

Just for you.

(Edited lyrics for song from the film "Robin Hood Men in Tights")

We're Rangers!
We'reRangers in tights!
We roam around theplanets
Looking for fights!

We're Rangers!
We're Rangers in tights!
Weharvest for the rich
And give tous poor - that's right!

We may look like pansies,
But watch what you say, or else
We'll put out your lights!

We're Rangers!
We're Rangers in tights!
Always at guard,
Defending the peoples rights!

[Can-Can Melody (and dance):]
La-lalalalalala-lalalalalala-lalalalala
La-lalalalalala-lalalalalala-lalalalala
[and so on...]

We're Rangers! - Manly Rangers!
We're Rangers in tights! - YES!
We roam around theplanets
Looking for fights!

We're Rangers!
We're Rangers in tights!
We harvest for the rich
And give tous poor - that's right!

We may look like pansies
But don't get us wrong, or else
We'll put out your lights!

We're Rangers!
We're Rangers in tights! - Tight tights!
Always at guard,
Defending the peoples rights!

When you're in a dath ditch
Just call for the Rangers in tights!

We're butch!

Amina Perasi / Emili Gef'yana [RRF/SFR]

Amina Perasi - Jedi (pre-cu,) Pilot, (Vortex, Crimson Phoenix,) Scout, Ranger, ...Riflewoman, Commando, TKM, Medic, CH, Pikewoman, Carbineer (All Mastered)

Emili Gef'yana - Commando - Pilot, (Smugglers Alliance,) Riflegirl, Squad Leader, ...Ranger, Markswoman, Scout, BH, Carbineer (All Mastered)
(gnn[[[[[[[[[[~~]nnn~~WX9ggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg)

- Waiting for SOE to apologise for the NGE !!!

Ech0Witch

Wed Aug 24, 2005 5:22 am

#24

On Chimaera we are an extremely rare breed. In fact I only know of one other Ranger in game.

But saying that though, the groups I've been hunting with have been grateful for my traps effects, even if the flash bombs do blind them every now and then. And one of my Guilds members was over joyed to find out I was a ranger as it meant he had someone who could track GDK's for him

Amina Perasi / Emili Gef'yana [RRF/SFR]

Amina Perasi - Jedi (pre-cu,) Pilot, (Vortex, Crimson Phoenix,) Scout, Ranger, ...Riflewoman, Commando, TKM, Medic, CH, Pikewoman, Carbineer (All Mastered)

Emili Gef'yana - Commando - Pilot, (Smugglers Alliance,) Riflegirl, Squad Leader, ...Ranger, Markswoman, Scout, BH, Carbineer (All Mastered)
(gnn[[[[[[[[[[~~]nnn~~WX9ggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg)

- Waiting for SOE to apologise for the NGE !!!

Beargan

Wed Aug 24, 2005 8:50 am

#25

BinaryTuna wrote:

Temujin23 wrote:

Lorrowyn wrote:

Ranger is one of those professions that as soon as it's fixed and "cool " again, you'll see a large amount of people playing.

But, while I dropped my MCH in favor of Master Rifleman, Cryos Merovingian and his band of Rangers on Naritus give me a continual reason to keep the profession, even if it's not "cool" yet.

WOOKIEE RANGER POWER!!!

Cryos and his 'band of Rangers'? WHAT THE HELL!!???!!111!11

al-djinn'i

Master Ranger/Way Cooler Than Cryos

Does this mean we'll have to start wearing green tights now?

I really, really hope not. I like my armors.

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Aenedor

Thu Aug 25, 2005 4:40 am

#26

There seemed to be an increase in the number of Rangers after the CU. For a time I often would see the occassional Master Ranger in Starports when travelling about. I have a good friend ingame who is a respec'd Master Ranger. The numbers seem to be dropping now, I see less and less Rangers about.

Aenedor Tru'shot
Elder Ranger
Imperial Medic - Bringing Healing and Order to the Galaxy.

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