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Well to answer your question I have built a client base on KETTEMOOR!! I hunt, lead hunting parties, track for players and just plain run around. I have ARMORSMITHS, DOCS and CHEFS that send me emails and tells all the time!! I am a RANGER RIFLEMAN and love every minute of it. No grinding missions, looking for LOOT or plain crap. I take trips when not employed trying to find a hot hide or meat to hunt! Set up camp and let peps come heal in it or do like I did today and wander around TAT killing everything! REcently I have started carrying some different harvestors and setting them down so when Im wander in g aroud I check them and put it on the market or give it to my guild!! You know what I still go fishing from time to time too!!

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lager256 wrote:

You will not become uber, you will not become a mega millionaire

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perhaps not mega-million... but multi-million if you are patient .

*the old wookie comes out of the forests ... been a while ... paruses the boards and sees the same questions asked that have been all to often, so he settles down by the fire ... accepts the offered Jawa Beer, and smiles*

What is a ranger good for ... a good question. There are those that would say if you need to ask, then you are in the wrong line of work. It depends on what you are looking for in an occupation.

There are those who seek out money. In my time I have been a miner ... a farmer ... I even tried my hand at making a thing or two. making money is making money. You can do it using the skills you learn as a ranger, in combination with the basics you learned as a scout. Hunting can pay well if you listen to the markets, maybe get yourself a couple of good private buyers and deal in business fairly. But that is true for any profession. Those with the good combat skills are just as capable. Sure we harvest a bit more, and we find things a little bit more easily, but these skills are helpful, not essential.

There are those who seek out fame. In the world of the martial artists or the gunslingers, we have a few special tricks. Rescuing friends, taunting enemies. But our forte is creatures, and when it comes to others of the combat focused groups, well, our attentions and our skills are not as beneficial as others. Our knowledge and our attention to the wilds takes away from studies of that kind. We weild death when it is needed, but we also enoy the life that can be seen around us.

There are those who seek to make the better tools, the best weapons, the most effective machinery. I was good with my hands when I was younger, but I have found that it is hard to follow that road when you are traveling all the time, so I gave it up for the freedom to roam. But when I was crafting, our skills were useful in keeping creatures away, or at least remaining unnoticed.

The truth is, for those seeking the basic skills of the Ranger, and are looking for a set of skills to round them out, I say this: If you come to me for Ranger training, you already know that which you seek. If you come to me to become a Ranger ... then let us take a walk.

The benifits in being a Ranger are not the skills we learn, though I do enjoy the comfort of my better camps, and my Doctor friend enjoys getting painted up when we go on walkabout. It is in the spirit where the benefits come. We are a brotherhood who have chosen to commit ourselves to a lifestyle. We have chosen to follow a path that reveals secrets of unknown places to us. We find the treasures of our chosen worlds that others miss as they scream by on their speeders and bikes. We have scaled the highest mountains, and followed the longest rivers, merely to see where they go.

The greatest, and in my opinion (taken for whatever the rantings of an old wookie may be worth) the only true benefit of being a Ranger is the smile that comes over the lips of those who understand, and the admittedly sometime begrudged admiration of those who may not understand why we walk the path we do, but are aware of our commitment to nothing but an ideal. The benefit of being a Ranger is ... being a Ranger.

I have seen many true Masters come, and though those who call themselves Master are rare ... those who remain are rarer still. I have seen many friends, many brothers in arms depart from our ranks. I have wished them well on their journey. As for myself ...

... well ...

... Endor's Moon still calls to me just as it did oh so long ago, before the vehicles, before the mounts ... before mask scent worked ... I still walk the woods, climb the Yawari cliffs, sit fireside with the Panshee and Gondula Sirit Masters and listen to their stories. I long for the view of Endor as it passes across the night sky, and the sound of rain on my camp awning as I fish at my favorite spots.

I miss these things when they are not there ... and when they are, I am at peace. I never would have known them had I not walked this path.

So don't mind me as I sit and listen to the debate of what is this or that useful for and forgive my smile. I am just an old wookie with too much time in the woods ... and don't know any better.

... good beer, by the way.

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agredline wrote:
So now I've heard what rangers can't do...now I want to know what they are capable of.

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OK, imagine being a master scout. Now imagine spending another profession worth of skill points for a 30% harvesting bonus.

Oh the possiblities =P

Ive decided to not take up Master Ranger as I had previously thought. I may do at a later stage, but right now Im having so much fun with CH that Im going to split my skillpoints between the two.

As for what Ranger is good for, well thats already been explained, froma min-max perspective, its worth bugger all, but for those of us who do take it up(in whole or in part), it just feels right.

The best way I can think to describe it right now is Zen.

Thank you Chra for that profound imagery, That is percisely how I feel toward the Ranger proffesion. I know that not everyone feels the same way as I do....heck probably most people dont.

Good hunting friend.

Warrior creed of the Bujinkan: Wherever I go someone in need has a friend, Wherever I am everyone is a little safer because I am there, Whenever I am home everyone is happy I am there.

Forgive me for posting so shortly afterwards...but I failed to give credit to the Author of the Warrior Creed, It Is Robert L. Humphrey who is the Author of said creed.

Good hunting.

Wherever I go everyone is a little bit safer because I am there, Wherever I am anyone in need has a friend, Whenever I return home everyone is happy I am there. Its a better life: By Robert L. Humphrey.

The best thing, is the Cool sounding Master Ranger Title. It WAS great to have Conceal, back in the day, so I could walk around anywhere and not get aggroed.. except by kreetles.

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agredline wrote:

I've also heard that the ranger/rifleman (which I want to be) is unparalleled in solo creature hunting. Is this true?

Thanks again...

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It's true provided you have dancer/musician buffs and drunk on two brandies. The attacks are SOOOOO mind intensive it's terrible. I'm in the process of moving from rifle to carbineer. At least I can heal the pool that is being used (or get buffed and not worry about it).