Ranger Archive

First off, it's of little use since EVERYONE can perform the search. The eggs I can see a future market in and I read somewhere on this forum that they can be used in our stink bomb traps. What I suggest to the DEV's is giving Rangers this option and only Rangers. Why?

1) This would give us something totally unique to our class, separating us from the Scouts (not to mention every **edit**, Joe and Harry).

2) Isn't A Ranger the most enviromental class in the game? Then wouldn't it make sense that we have the most knowledge of creatures and hives/lairs than say that droid engineer? Let's be real, some dancer is out their looting all the lairs of the only good thing (eggs) to make a profit.Make this a Rangeronly class skill.

I want to hear the good and bad on this. I'm not saying that this is the only thing that should be done to our class either, but it might be a start. I'm kind of tired of scouts doing everything I do and when I ask if someone can ADV train me, I get 15 scouts all saying "I CAN" when in fact they can't. We need more idea's on what can separate us Rangers from the rest.

Thank You for listening.

Helton (Eclipse) Novice Ranger, Novice Rifleman, Novice Creature handler.

Thats a good idea, are you sure anyone can do it though?

I heard about it from another Ranger, and did it, and when we were running around Endora, me and him were the only two who would run stright up to the dens to examnine them... Why didnt anyone else go? I dont know... but the thought crossed my mind since they kept asking how to search that they didnt know how.

Be careful what you ask for, you may just get it.

I don't know about anyone else here, but my idea's of a Ranger Specific skill sure as heck isn't the ability to "Search Lairs" for Eggs and Live Samples.

I agree, but it's pretty stupid that every class can search lairs.

Ok, a new one:

Master Rangers are the only class that can use traps on NPC's / PVP?

Is that Idea better?

Helton (Eclipse)

By the way, does anyone know how live samples are useful to artisans? Are they worth anything or should I destroy the 50+ I have to reclaim inventory space?

Successful lair searches should provide survival xp.

Live samples are useful to artisans because they have the ability to craft creature habitats that can house the live samples. I dont really know a good use for them after that....I've seen people release them in cantinas for a bit of a show.

It's not stupid that every class can search lairs, what is stupid is that the items within the lairs have no relation to the CL of the animals it spawns nor for the risk of approaching the lair. If you could get around 20 eggs from a Veermok nest while only 2 eggs from a chuba nest then you'd start seeing that rangers and scouts become better at gathering them because their maskscent allows then to get close to the lairs with greater rewards. On the whole though the issue is that the eggs are simply in too small quantities and less common than animals samples, plus the fact that animal samples are only any use in the creature habitats that are atually nothing more than animalfireworks.

Yeah, they are just a "WildLife" fireworks type display.

So as a Enthraller is Dancing she can release a Wave of "Flies" or "Bats" that appear to originate from her midsection - if you catch my drift.

So, it is evident that someone spent time coming up with this (IMHO) Stupid Arse feature of the game, when the time would have been better spent on the "Class Issues" that plague every board.

Master Rangers are the only class that can use traps on NPC's / PVP?

Is that Idea better?

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No.

Why should I have to be a Master to use my skills for PvP? A Novice Bounty Hunter can use his, a Novice CH can use his, etc. Why should Rangers be different? Like everything else, make is so scouts cannot use PvP traps but Rangers can. Don't start alienating Master from Novice already in such a huge way.Usually the only people that ask for such things are those that can play 24/7 and get Master in3 days. Let's get help for Ranger as a class before we cater to Master Rangers alone.

I dont know about how valuable the eggs are in foods and whatnot, but the live samples are WORTHLESS. The animation for releasing them is awful and hard to see, there is no market for it. Go to a bazaar and look under misc/general misc. You will see the live sample containers, buy it (around 100 cr normally), open it, say thats it, and never buy another.

You would think that after having database problems they would try to get rid of more useless junk, not make tons more.

Don't you rangers get that stealthy camoflauge ability? Or is that another worthless one like my being able to know all languages as my first underworld skill in smuggler, when me and everyone else had them after training their first skill.

-sr