Ranger Archive
Thread: A Sad Sad Day.
Now it's more disgust. I didnt have to set up a camp once. Before i knew it Hunting Wooley hide for a Armorsmith that needed it i was havin to get to a trainer.
Now i know what the New players are saying. Oh sure your full temp and made it blahh blahh. Well understand ive done this 3 times now. And survival xp was a part of the Grind if you will. You sat in your camp making traps. talking to new players. Helping on hunts. It was a fun long grind for lack of a better word.
Im prob beating a dead horse here but. Its sad how quick I made it. I dont think i can look at anouther Master ranger with a Stright face that says it was a Journey. Cuz it was not. Unless walking to you mail box infront of you house is a journey to you.
Maybe we should arrange a mass camp out south of Coronet, in memory of days past...Ranger is a profession I always wanted to do, I did it on my original toon but didnt master it, just recently did it on an Alt and im in the same boat but even respecced the trapping part so im just a fake. 
Still a nice prof, and it supports my AS, but not as fulfilling as it used to be for me for some reason.
Dyrwen wrote:
I miss survival xp with camps.. It brought patience and vitality to a Ranger's heart. Kept us grounded and away from the FOTM folk, no matter what..
Ah, the good ole' days of a long hard survival grind that felt like you had to survive to do it. I suppose you'll just have to look upon Masters more for how long they've kept their title, rather than how quickly they achieved their title.
/agree
well it is slower solo - resources make a big difference. I often do missions to pay for training so I can be a little slower to train if say I don't have the cash. /me shrugs. I'm working more on Rifle atm, than I am Ranger - due to the unfortunate difficulties with surviving with Ranger alone ><
But to get to my point, it took maybe a week to master Carbine (on my WH toon) - mostly because I didn't always hunt with other people. If I'd stuck with my friends constantly I doubt it would have taken more than two days. Now mind that's with a lot of hunting (aka 'grinding') but that particular character can easily afford training. Can afford the best weapons. Can afford several deaths, insurance, cloning etc etc.
Anyway, it's not just Ranger. Sometimes I think it's all of SWG. This is from the perspective of someone who's been gone a good bit - maybe 8 months and just came back shortly after the CU. Even taking into account resources and knowledge it seems very much like it's gotten easier to raise 'insert skill here'.
I miss tents being useful. I had a ton of Wilderness XP (I left after they changed Survival to Wilderness). I noticed right away that making tents and traps and fishing still gave wilderness xp - I haven't checked recently, maybe they finally simply converted it to general crafting or scout xp. After changes of that magnitude I'm surprised they left Trapping xp in! But then traps would be totally useless as no one would bother. /me sighs. I really like traps too - always have, hence going Ranger. Anything that helps me solo = good! I was quite miffed when I came back and saw how many traps they'd changed/nerfed/broken. I'm still not completely certain that the CU didn't kill the majority of them. I mean, before I was master marksman (more because I couldn't make up my darn mind!) and one lep dart (?been a while I forget) that hit effectively and a lucky head shot with my rifle meant the critter went down. Then I just had to worry about its friends lol.
Bleh this morning ramble brought to you by lack of coffee. /rant
Frenzi wrote:Maybe we should arrange a mass camp out south of Coronet, in memory of days past...Ranger is a profession I always wanted to do, I did it on my original toon but didnt master it, just recently did it on an Alt and im in the same boat but even respecced the trapping part so im just a fake.
Still a nice prof, and it supports my AS, but not as fulfilling as it used to be for me for some reason.
Theed bridge ftw!
Almagill wrote:
From almost anyone else I'd be like "yeah, right..." but, three days??? That's wrong on so many levels.
OK so you had the resources, funding and a stack of foreknowledge, but even so...
Told ya Mon i was takiln Cam to Master Ranger. Wed I sent ya the tell I was Complete lol. and it was on low lvl Mobs Peekoo and Gulamas.On Naboo Ken Naboo. thats the Sickest part.
YT-2000 wrote:
Theed bridge ftw!
lol
Spent sooooo much time in camps there.
OK so you had the resources, funding and a stack of foreknowledge, but even so...
Ah, the good ole' days of a long hard survival grind that felt like you had to survive to do it. I suppose you'll just have to look upon Masters more for how long they've kept their title, rather than how quickly they achieved their title.