Ranger Archive
Thread: Almost time for my return... Again
I've rewritten this post three times to state my mind.
At last notice, I was a TKA/Ranger. Ranger is my first chosen profession. It is the profession I left for the holo grind, and a profession I returned to after the silent. I left it, yet again, in search for a profession that wasn't as frustrating as TKA (FoW... worthless most times, meditation buff... waste of points, bla bla bla). So I grabbed Rifleman. I'd been TKA/Rifleman for a bit. I enjoyed the defense stacking (fencer/rifle would be better) but got frustrated by the HEAVY MIND COST OF RIFLEMAN. Geez, without brandy, I'd have an empty mind after 5 specials. Give me a break. So, I dropped TKA for carbineer. So far I'm enjoying it. The specials are, **sigh**, largely action based. What does this mean? Short of having an AP3 weapon (rifle), I don't need to be drunk off brandy and full of canape simply to usespecials liberally. I only need a doc buff 
. So I'm going to work on master carbineer. I'm going to test carbine and rifle in all aspects of PvP and PvE. Whichever prof I select out of it, I'll stick with it and drop the other for my third mastery of Ranger. Pistoleer was nice but it isn't great unless it is paired with smuggler dirty fighting (which is impossible to do with Ranger). So it goes with my story. Do we all know I'm ready for master ranger again? I have 30k of bone, 30k of hide, and 10k of aluminum for the survival tree grind (more than enough, but the more the merrier). I have an equipment factory filled with dath/endor/yavin/dant camo kits, HTFB, and trap crates. I'm ready to go. WOOHOO
I just finished all the melee profs, pistoleer... so far, Pikeman really fits my style.
Cool, welcome back Rook. I'll definitely be re-mastering ranger as well, but I'll be waiting until closer to the revamp to do it. I just can't stand staying useless for that long.
Pikeman/Ranger? lol, there is something *so* right about that, rofl.
AgonThalia wrote:
Cool... let me know how you like Carbineer...
I just finished all the melee profs, pistoleer... so far, Pikeman really fits my style.
Oh, I decided most my levelling will be done killing stormtroopers on rebel factions. That way I get paid, I level up, and I get promoted to colonel finally.
Message Edited by ThGilsRooc on 06-11-2004 04:43 PM
Cone attacks galore, trap and weapon range about the same, stun,blind,mez,posture,dizzy,knockdown etc. from both traps and specials.
I was looking forward to this. The ultimate group support role. Just stay back and fire FullAutoArea2 and throw a trap or two if something goes wrong.
Boy was I wrong
Granted, I haven't mastered Carbineer just yet ( and that's a bad sign ) but today I really put an effort into it. No more buff up, armor up and spam away. I joined a group and went out hunting. Sharnaffs, fairly easy targets to practice on ( oh and I can actually get my traps to stick 
).Ranger? Well we all know about Ranger but Cabineer? The profession is a contradiction in itself. Clearly aimed at being a support combat profession, designed to stay back and lay down a spray of destruction but no. The cone attacks are what is really bringing Carbineer down ( oh and the HAM costs but that, at least, is going to be looked at ), they only damage the targets if you have aggro, and, Carbineers aren't supposed to have aggro. Trying to bring tactics into SWG combat proved to be a bad idea. While the tanks had the aggro all I could do was sit back and stick states, one creature at a time.
On your own though it's a different thing. You'll get the aggro anyway, so buff up, armor up and spam away. With the CB however, I don't think Rangers will have the firepower to hunt much on their own. At least not with a profession like Carbineer on the side. When the MOBs get tougher you don't want to use those cone attacks
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