Ranger Archive

Langlaches can be found on explorer terminals. If you read the details, it'll advise a particular direction to begin looking. When I was a newb, explorer missions had a decent payout and gave me the chance to explore planets. I don't know much about them anymore, but I have a feeling if you take a mission for a particular type of creature, there will be enough spawns to finish that particular mission. I may be wrong.

Funny thing is, I *can't* hunt from missions! I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but the downtime I get and the buttwhoopings I take doing terminal missions are just that--terminal. I'm a lot more efficient going out into the wild and killing what I can find--because while it might not be much, and while I still have downtime, it's still more than I'd get otherwise. (Exception being if I can get in a group, then missions win hands down.)

I usually take a couple missions for what I am looking for and hunt on the way to and between missions.

But last night I did it and was getting around 10 times more hide from the mission mobs than from the wild mobs! damn that sucks!
So now I mostly leave the wild spawns alone unless they are close to my CL and just search lairs for eggs while moving between missions

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Cryos_Merovingian wrote:
Is anybody else feeling somewhat hollow now that the most effective way to hunt, level, and harvest is by running missions?

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This is one of the great reasons I have cancelled and am refusing to pay to betatest this game any further.

I have stated repeatedly in my time as Ranger that I hate using mission terminals. I will not be tethered to 2km from an mission terminal. If I am hunting/wandering and I cant find my quarry then I dont get paid. Simple as that. I will not do mission runs. Period.

So, now my only way to level/gain FS xp is to get missions that "should" give me a fight near my level, yet rarely does. Thats just a nasty way of making the game supremely boring. There is no point to wandering around Endor if 90% of everything I come across to fight is worthless to me combat xp-wise and is gray and not worth my time fighting. Only xp I can get is scout xp.

I hope this crap is fixed after my hiatus is done. /grumble

I despise running missions while hunting. However, I had a blast the other night when several of us got together and gathered some hide and meat for Jaxus' and Circe''s alts. It was fun to hang out with other rangers and practice post-CU group tactics, and yes, we ran missions.

Hunting professionally is pretty much dead for me, though. I'll still group and run missions to help out a friend, but I'm done being an actual hunter. I really liked landing on a planet, checking my map to see where the mission terminals were, and carefully plotting a path well outside of that 2km mission zone. I liked having to track my prey, and having to get to know a planet. Knowing where to find the highest wild gurk concentration is useless now, since mission gurks have three times the CL. And it's not like I'm needed as a hunter anymore, anyway. Every fool with a smattering of scout can mindlessly plod from one waypoint to the next and end up with way more resources than I could ever hope to get. Now that I think about it, I'm not entirely certain why I'm still a ranger at all. Huh.

al-djinn'i