Ranger Archive

"There will no longer be a penalty to harvesting while in a group. Instead, there will now be a 20% harvesting bonus if you are in a group and at least one group member is within 64m of you when you harvest. If there is a Ranger present in your group and is within 64m of you, the group harvesting bonus will be 30% for you when you harvest. If there is a Master Ranger present in your group and is within 64m of you, the group harvesting bonus will be 40%. "

- Tiggs

Does this mean that if i am grouped with a droid, or a pet, and that droid or pet is within 64m of me, then i will get the harvest bonus? it doesn't seem to clarify whether it is just grouped with players or not.

i don't have any pets to group with on test center to check on this.

Paks
Master Ranger/Master Creature Handler
-I support ATK play

So grouped with pet = same harvest rate as not grouped at all?

Paks
Master Ranger/Master Creature Handler
-I support ATK play

I FREAKING TOLD YOU SO

Way back when, grouping with a droid or bio pet led to the 40% loss. The vast majority of the people said this was unfair, that a pet is not a group, it is a pet.

Some Rangers railed against the idea. "Solo is solo, not you and a pet"...that was me actually. I was the one who did a mini test and showed that with a pet you could drop lairs quicker and in doing so, the 40% drop was not all that bad. However, the majority prevailed and the 40% drop was not implemented when you and a droid/bio pet comprised a group. Group is a bad word, it's not a group per se, call it a cluster... you may add the second half of the phrase if you want...mentally only please.

Now we have the same people about to argue that a player and a pet = a group.

Do so at your own risk. I am honing the knives, the flames will fly. I will even find the original posts on this subject if need be.

Y'all got what you wanted, deal with it.

JB

JB, i completely agree with you.

Player + Pet/Droid = Not a Group

I just hadn't had a chance to check out the change on test center to see if that was the way the devs viewed it or not.

About 50% of the time i'm organics hunting i'm doing so with a friend, so the change doesn't effect me too much, and i am perfectly happy with the grouped system exactly the way it is in publish 13.1.

once again the devs have made a great patch. i'm really excited about all of th harvesting changes, the GCW changes, and the player event perks.

The thing that I find to be interesting is that when I group with my pets, I can get higher paying missions. So the pets count towards missions, but will not count for harvesting?

1.- I really don't care if I get any bonus or not with just a pet. As long as it is 100%, i am good with that.

2.-The only reason I group with pets at mission terms is NOT for the payouts, but to find lairs for pets.

I just find that part about grouping with pets/droids 'interesting.' should they count? No, but, sure, it would be nice for those times when I want to do some hunting solo.

At least the devs included Rangers in this deal. Yes, itmight mean a few more annoying tells, but just do what I do, put on a weapon tag and ignore them. But, for those that actually want to go out with guildies or friends it can mean good things as the old way pretty much meant alot of people did it solo. I seriously doubt there will be a massive influx of people looking rangers for an additional 10-20%. Grouping alone will bring in 20% more than before.