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Seeing as how Ranger is now considered a combat profession it would be good to see some weapon certifications given to them. Any thoughts?

Ranger isn't a combat profession...we just get an increase to Combat level (no, this really doesn't mean we are combatants, it just makes it so we are less gimped while hunting).

We have traps, and in general (lately), people would like to see traps become our main offense and defense, and I think this is the way to go.

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Calculus_Entropy wrote:
Ranger isn't a combat profession...we just get an increase to Combat level (no, this really doesn't mean we are combatants, it just makes it so we are less gimped while hunting).

We have traps, and in general (lately), people would like to see traps become our main offense and defense, and I think this is the way to go.

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I to like this idea, but unless they change traps, then id still prefer my rifle

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Calculus_Entropy wrote:
Ranger isn't a combat profession...we just get an increase to Combat level (no, this really doesn't mean we are combatants, it just makes it so we are less gimped while hunting).

We have traps, and in general (lately), people would like to see traps become our main offense and defense, and I think this is the way to go.

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Should i plug the trap launcher idea again? Or is that my own personal dead horse?

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Calculus_Entropy wrote:

We have traps, and in general (lately), people would like to see traps become our main offense and defense, and I think this is the way to go.

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Helios_SOE wrote:

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Novock wrote:

1. A new system will be brought in making weapons certed by level rather than proffession.

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Weapon certs can now be tied to a combat level + a specific skill box + a specific race

So, all three of these scenarios could happen:

1. Weapon is certed to anyone with a combat level of at least X
2. Weapon is certed to anyone with a combat level of at least X AND have achieved Skill Box N
3. Weapon is certed to anyone with a combat level of at least X AND have achieved Skill Box N AND is of race K.
Most weapons currently fall into "1", some fall into "2" (mostly iconic and profression defining weapons) and very few (currently only bowcasters) fall into "3".

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I'm moving this post from another thread since I think it makes more sense here.

What it means for us I think is that as a Master Ranger I will have a certain amount of levels and Iwill be able to use any of the level-certed weapons of that level, regarless of my combat skill boxes.

So depending on how they do it, and how good the level-cert weapons are, I may be able to pick up Novice Marksman and be able to use any of the marksman level-certed weapons of my MScout/MRanger level without actually needing to spend points in Carbineer, Pistoleer or Rifleman (though that being said, I probably would want to do so for the specials). I would then spend the rest of my points wherever I want - artisan maybe, or CH more probably for me /grin.

Man, was that ever a confusing paragraph!

Since we will possibly be able to use high-level weapons without spending the points does it make sense to ask for another, Ranger-specific, weapon? Maybe we should ask for a Ranger special attack instead? So we could use it with our level-certed weapons if we didnt want to spend skill points in a combat profession? That way we are not locking people into either a ranged or melee fighting style. AND we keep our ranger-flavoredweapon in our traps as was stated above.

This is all guess-work on my part, I do not know for sure this is how it is going to work.

Message Edited by Vorpaks on 04-14-2005 12:58 PM

Message Edited by DaveG on 04-14-2005 06:53 PM

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Phenix1050 wrote:

Gloomy Dave was the first one to know about the good news.

quick! someone define irony!

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Meh, the irony was that I couldn't tell anyone, Itold Owen for obvious reasons though. They knew they were going to do it, but they didn't even bother to tell the correspondent!