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Thread: Outdoorsman 2.1 Skill Tree
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Phenix1050
Tue Aug 24, 2004 6:47 am
#1
This is the "short" version of the Outdoorsman 2.1 Proposal. You should be familiar with that document before you read this, as this is simply the breakdown of our proffesion as it would look if the Outdoorsman proposal went through as it is.
Novice Ranger- At this level, a Ranger begins to leave the city behind, taking up the weapons and skills neccesary for wilderness survival.
Skills Granted: /harvest trophy, /placeStash, /areatrack, /areatrack: animals; /track
Skill Modifiers Granted: Camping +5, Creature Harvesting + 5, Creature Knowledge +5, Areatrack +25, Track + 20, disease resist +5, poison resist + 5,meleetoughness+ 10,bow accuracy + 20, bow speed + 10, Dagger accuracy + 20, Dagger speed +20, Big Game Hunt missions + 1
Schematics Granted: Ultrasonic trap, Glow Net trap, Advanced Camp Kit, Fishing Net
Weapon Certifications Granted: Hunting Bow, Hunting Dagger
Wayfaring- This line focuses the Ranger on moving through the world and striking from a distance, and how to survive periods in the wilderness while poisoned or diseased
Wayfaring I
Skills Granted: /conceal, /ribshot
Skill Modifiers Granted: RangedToughness + 5, Conceal + 40, Terrain Negotiation + 10, Bow speed +5, bow accuracy + 10
Schematics Granted: Camo Kit: Tattooine, Camo Kit: Naboo, Camo Kit: Corellia
Wayfaring II
Skills Granted: /ambush1
Skill Modifiers Granted: Conceal +10, Terrain Negotiation + 10, Bow Speed + 5, Bow Accuracy + 10, poison resist + 5, disease resist + 5
Schematics Granted: Camo Kit: Rori, Camo Kit: Talus
Wayfaring III
Skills Granted: /fatalBlow
Skill Modifiers Granted: Ranged Toughness+ 5, Conceal +10, Terrain Negotiation +10, Bow Speed + 5, Bow accuracy + 10
Schematics Granted: Camo Kit: Dantooine, Camo Kit: Yavin IV
Wayfaring IV
Skill Modifiers Granted: Conceal + 10, Terrain Negotiation + 10, Bow Speed + 5, Bow Accuracy + 10, poison resist + 5, disease resist + 5
Frontiering- This line teaches the Ranger how to create habitats while in the wild, how to puch the body harder and how to find rare and precious herbs and fruits
Frontiering I
Skill Modifiers Granted: Camping +10, Forage +10, burst run efficiency +10
Frontiering II
Skill Modifiers Granted: Camping +10, Forage + 10
Schematics Granted: High Quality Camp Kit
Frontiering III
Skill Modifiers Granted: Camping + 10, Forage + 10, Burst Run efficiency + 10
Schematics Granted: Storm Shelter
Frontiering IV
Skill Modifiers Granted: Camping + 10, Forage + 10
Schematics Granted: Field Base
Field Bioscience- This line teaches the ranger valuable knowledge about creatures: how to track them, how to harvest them better and how tohunt them at close range
Field Bioscience I
Skills Granted: /slash, /areatrack: direction
Skill Modifiers Granted: Melee toughness+ 5, creature harvesting + 10, creatrue knowledge + 5, creature dodge + 5, Areatrack + 15, Track + 5, Dagger Speed + 10,Dagger Accuracy + 5,
Field Bioscience II
Skills Granted: /areatrack: people
Skill Modifiers Granted: Big Game Hunt missions + 1, creature harvesting + 10, creature knowledge + 5, Areatrack + 15, Track + 5, Dagger speed + 10, Dagger accuracy + 5
creature damage + 5
Field Bioscience III
Skills Granted: /areatrack: distance, /fatalFlurry
Skill Modifiers Granted: Melee toughness + 5, Creature Harvesting + 10, creature knowledge +5, Areatrack + 15, Track + 5, creature dodge, + 5, dagger speed + 10,
Dagger accuracy + 5
Field Bioscience IV
Skills Granted: /areatrack: players
Skill Modifiers Granted: Creature harvesting + 10, creature knowledge + 5, Areatrack + 15, Track + 5, Dagger speed + 10, Dagger Accuracy + 5, creature Damage + 5
Trapping- This tree educates the Ranger on how to affect creatures without weaponry, as well as how to assist the unwary traveler.
Trapping I
Skills Granted: /rescue
Skill Modifiers Granted: Trapping + 10, Rescue + 10
Schematics Granted: Radioactive Tracer trap, Lure trap, Bola trap
Trapping II
Skill Modifiers Granted: Trapping + 10, Rescue +10
Schematics Granted: Big Bang trap, Tranquilizer Dart, Basic Ground Trap, Incendiary Trap
Trapping III
Skill Modifiers Granted: Trapping + 10, Rescue + 10
Schematics Granted: Tracer Net trap, Festering Bile trap, Shockwave Trap, Improved Ground Trap
Trapping IV
Skill Modifiers Granted: Trapping + 10, Rescue +10
Schematics Granted: Goop trap, sleeping gas, High Quality Ground trap, Corrosion trap
Master Ranger- At this level, the Ranger becomes one with Nature and rarely has need to leave the wilderness due to his amazing skills fo survival
Skills Granted: /hide, /ambush2, /harvestAll, /huntersDawn, /finalBlow,/place Hunting Lodge
Skill Modifiers Granted: Big Game Hunt Missions + 1, Ranged toughness+ 10, Melee toughness+10, areatrack + 15, Track + 5, Creature Harvesting + 5,
Creature Knowledge + 10, Forage + 5, Creature dodge + 10, Creature Damage + 10 , Poison Resist +10, Disease Resist + 10, trapping +10, Terrain Negotiation + 10, Bow speed + 10, Bow Accuracy + 10, Dagger Speed + 10, Dagger Accuracy + 10, burstrun efficiency + 10, rescue + 10
Schematics Granted: High Tech Field Base, Camouflage Netting, Small Offensive Hide, Large Offensive Hide, Small creature defense shield, large creature defence shield,
Small Pheremone Emiter, Large Pheremone Emitter, Exemplary Ground Trap
Weapon Certifications Granted: Composite Bow, Hunting Blade, Trap Launcher
Message Edited by Phenix1050 on 08-28-2004 05:26 PM
Phenix1050
Sat Aug 28, 2004 9:13 am
#2
Whoops, sorry about taking so long with this, guys. I'll have the links page up in a minute, with all the updated stuff.
Nemo0
Sat Aug 28, 2004 10:36 am
#3
Nice tree but I'm not sure what you mean by the Ranged Damage Mitigation + # andMelee Damage Mitigation + #. I couldn't find any extra explanation in the actual proposal (although I might have missed it) but the names conflict a bit with the current game setup. Currently, mitigation comes in 3 levels (1, 2, and 3, amazingly enough). I'm thinking you might have meant toughness instead (where such numbers make a bit more sense) but I just wanted to check I'm not missing anything (and make sure we don't confuse the Devs).
P.S. Calc, any chance you could sort of slip the Devs a note with the links on it while you are so close by? Maybe camo up and post it on their "To Do" board?
Phenix1050
Sat Aug 28, 2004 10:39 am
#4
i emailed him a word document copy of the story, the proposal and the mitigation...and yes, I meant toughness...I will editthat.
Sojourner
Sat Aug 28, 2004 7:59 pm
#6
Phenix1050 wrote:Okies...fixed. Any other coments, guys?
I've got a comment, someone needs to e-mail a copy of both this and the other Outdoorsman 2.1 post to the Devs.
DesktopSaki
Sun Aug 29, 2004 5:22 am
#7
Phenix1050 wrote:
Weapon Certifications Granted: Composite Bow, Hunting Blade, Trap Launcher
Message Edited by Phenix1050 on 08-28-2004 05:26 PM
I. Want. A. Bow. So. Badly.
Mykarru
Mon Aug 30, 2004 11:09 am
#8
This proposal is so totally cool. Would make the Ranger everything it needs to be. I so want to keepmy ranger going, but it needsa serious plus-up to be more valuable in the current SWG world. Please tell me someone is taking this to the correspondent summit/conference that I hear is going on now.
AgonThalia
Mon Aug 30, 2004 5:11 pm
#9
I like this a lot...
a few questions:
1: will TN be the same animal it is now? with it modifying crawl speed?
2: Would the bow be a kinetic weapon, or an all new "piercing" weapon (something that pikemen actually want)
3: Would the melee skills and specials be applicable if i had a stun baton, a pike a hammer... or just the hunting knife?
4: Would the arrows in the bow have slots in them to add poison/ disease/ blast effects?
5: Would I be able to nail a Nightsister between the eyes with a Bow? or would it be just vs. critters.
Thats all i have now, otherwise... damn good list... this is what ive envisioned a ranger being.
a few questions:
1: will TN be the same animal it is now? with it modifying crawl speed?
2: Would the bow be a kinetic weapon, or an all new "piercing" weapon (something that pikemen actually want)
3: Would the melee skills and specials be applicable if i had a stun baton, a pike a hammer... or just the hunting knife?
4: Would the arrows in the bow have slots in them to add poison/ disease/ blast effects?
5: Would I be able to nail a Nightsister between the eyes with a Bow? or would it be just vs. critters.
Thats all i have now, otherwise... damn good list... this is what ive envisioned a ranger being.
MirraxTerrik
Mon Aug 30, 2004 6:50 pm
#10
Awsome post! What about "Missions +2" in one of the tiers, meaning that we can have more than 2 missions in our data pad at once. It would make since because rangers shouldn't have to come back to a city every five minutes and allowing us to have more mission would let us spend longer times in the wilderness. This would only apply to big game missions. Oh, and how about "Awarness" mods, for those of you who don't know what awarness does it is like defense against startle shot or pre-emptive attacks I think.
Phenix1050
Tue Aug 31, 2004 1:49 pm
#12
Just a few points:
Ranger specials work only with Ranger weapons. This is to ensure that we are not a "Combat Class" per se, but are effective in our own right against animals.
Both Ranger weapons (bow and knife) would create a new type of damage. The name itself is not important. The point of the damage would be that creatures have little to no resistances to it, while all armors are 75% or higher resistant to it. This ensures that Rangers are still a PvE-centric class.
The "Big Game Hunting" Missions are instead of an increase to the number of missions we can take. As I said, to use this quick guide, you need to be familiar with the full proposal. The +1 increase at Field Bioscience 2 and at Master Ranger allows you to get more difficult "Big Game" missions, not more. Basically the "Big Game" missions mimic the BH mission structure, although our hunt animals, and we have to use Ranger-specific skills to locate the animal. Basically, these missions are difficult, rewarding missions that hope to make you actually "hunt". Most of the mission is spent actually finding the creature and then killing it isn't simply a combat macro away. These animals would be HARD and you would need all the trick in your arsenal to kill them. At least that's the way I see them.
I see the big game missions as a better alternative to more standard missions because there is no real justification as to why a Ranger would be able to get more missions. Also, Rangers aren't generally geared towards hunting NPC's, but allowing us more missions would allow us to take 4 missions against targets a Ranger wouldn't normally hunt. I'd rather see us have a well-paying, but DIFFICULT missions structure. When gathering hide, a real Ranger doesnt' rely on just missions, they find natural spawns going both ways.
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