Ranger Archive

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Iseult wrote:

hehe - it didn't go that well for me -- all of the fs skill boxes that I have mean that the only elite master combat prof that I'm qualified for with master ranger is master bh, which does have some nice stuff, but felt very underpowered to me. I went to yavin and was incapped by a level 30 gian crystal snake (I was level 80 and wearing armor - no buffs). I didn't have any special BH weapons though, only a nym's carbine and my beserker rifle (both of which I could use because I had the combat level). I'm thinking though that maybe I shouldn't have gone MBH and should have tried a few other things - like dropping the investigation tree of masteer bh and getting some trees that would give me more speed (with mbh I had really high ranged and melee defence, but only 40 general ranged speed, so I could read a short novel between my shots).

Oh, and I also discovered that I could drop FS skills -- but I'm not sure that I'm ready to do that yet -- it's a lot of effort and xp down the drain.

Iseult
Master Ranger / Mediocre Rifleperson
Bloodfin

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a) are you sure it was the only thing attacking you?

b) did you /examine it?

c) was it's health regenerating faster than yours?

d) was it using poison to damage you?

e) was it attacking at range or in melee?

f) what was it's maximum health?

g) what was it's health before you were incapacitated?

h) what were it's resists?

I don't mean to ask these questions to annoy you, although it is an annoyingly long list. These are the factors of that combat instance that I could think of right now that would affect the outcome of the fight.

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Iseult wrote:

I didn't look at most of those things I'll have to admit -- it was ranged, spitting at me and it's health was regenerating faster than I could take it down. I was hitting it with my nym's carbine for 1236 points of damage every time, but it's health would bounce back up after I hit it.I had it down to 75% when it incapped me, and by the time I stood back up it's health was back up to 90%. My armor didn't seem to be blocking anything.

I suppose I could have been more careful and I really don't know how to use BH specials, but the point of my little test was to go somewhere and try to do something that I currently do on live (In live now I can take out one of these things with master rifles unarmored, unbuffed (but with brandy, etc...) in seconds, esp. if it stays ranged), and I came out of it bruised, battered, and feeling very underpowered. Even if I had managed to take it down, the fight still took a good 4-5 minutes. That's too long if you're hunting for resources -- 5 minutes to get 100-200 units of scaly hide. Ouch.

Iseult
Master Ranger / Mediocre Rifleperson
Bloodfin

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I think that the content higher than CL 15 is still being balanced. A lot of people have been affected by the health regeneration of enemies in that higher CL range, and it has been bug reported I hope. We are instructed to test things from CL 1-15, and I am assuming it is because the higher stuff is still broken.

I have also seen reports (non-SOE employee mind you) that armor does not work on Test Centers right now. I don't know if it's a full blown armor hole or what, but it will be fixed I hope. Maybe your armor wasn't resistance to the type of damage the creature was attacking you with. That is also another possibility.

I would bug report it myself, but I doubt they are unaware of this.

If I were you, I would fight against something relatively easy, begin the fight with armor to see how much damage it was inflicting upon you then, and take your armor off (all of it) and observe the differences. If there is a noticeable difference, then that rules out the armor hole theory.