Ranger Archive
Thread: The Why did you choose Ranger? thread.
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Trobon18
Tue Oct 26, 2004 9:18 pm
#1
This is my thread to ask the age old question... Why? Why did you pick up ranger and why are you one now?
I have to admit it. I picked up Ranger because of Farimir. Everyone who reads that thinks WT& is he talking about? Well I have made my choice and Farimir is the better ranger compared to Aragorn. But I digress. I became a ranger early on because of both Farimir and because it was my favorite class in EQ. I got novice real quick. Then I didn't gain much at all. I would switch professions a lot and give this up for that. However, strangly enough I never gave up any ranger. Well because of this I eventualy mastered and I will never go back. I have given it up before but only to return full force again.
So, how about you? Were you sucked in because of books/movies? Previous games? You think the profession is uber 1337 and no one can beat a Master Ranger cause of the +10 defenses? What's your story?
Irishbear99
Tue Oct 26, 2004 9:44 pm
#2
I'll probably get flamed for saying this, but I got into ranger for the money. I originally took up scout with my main character simplyfor the terrain negotiation.One week I found myselfhunting on Endor trying to level up for CH. I was harvesting insect meat for no reason other than to get the scouting xp, having no idea what I was going to do with it or what it was worth on my server. A couple of days later, I was paying attention to the spam in Theed starport and made myself a quick mil credits off of the meat.
I bought my 3rd account with the intention of being a master ranger, and gave her what I believe to be the most fitting name - A'rtemis (the Greek goddess of the hunt). Though her main purpose is to avoid the necessity of running Janta missions for credits, I have discovered how much fun roleplaying ranger really is. I've provided tents for pvp events, I've helped jedi finish their knight trials by tracking rare spawns, and I've gotten more random tells from people saying, "Oh cool, you're a ranger" than I can count. (And, let's be honest, the money can't be beat. 
) Though I've changed the template on my main toon at least a dozen times, my master ranger/tkm template will never be touched.
) Though I've changed the template on my main toon at least a dozen times, my master ranger/tkm template will never be touched.
RunningRoutes
Tue Oct 26, 2004 9:46 pm
#3
Originally, my plan was to be a Master Creature Handler and I was just filling in all the skills I could until I had to surrender them. Did all 6 basic professions to get the starting credits and to once again get a feel for what I want.
I loved the scout class and did some research into the ranger profession. Read about areatrack and thought I'd get it to help me find babies to tame. As I started playing around with Ranger more and more... I began to forget more and more about the creatures. Soon Creature Handler disappeared and I found my home. Amoung the rangers.
I loved the scout class and did some research into the ranger profession. Read about areatrack and thought I'd get it to help me find babies to tame. As I started playing around with Ranger more and more... I began to forget more and more about the creatures. Soon Creature Handler disappeared and I found my home. Amoung the rangers.
Mac_Leod
Tue Oct 26, 2004 10:37 pm
#4
I was originally going to be a smuggler, but I grew tired of trying to get from unarmed III to unarmed IV, so I gave up on that idea. I then picked up novice scout to get the TN. After awhile of playing scout, I decided that I really liked it, so I came to the scout forum. From there, I was directed here to the Ranger forum, and that's what made me become a Ranger: all of the great people in this profession and forum! I love you guys! (in a purely platonic way, of course)
/hug ranger forum
SaseO
Tue Oct 26, 2004 11:19 pm
#5
carrion spats is what made me become a ranger although i know that sounds odd so ill explain in a little more detail. at the time i didnt have any scout but the corellian avian meat was incredibly good on ahazi server. my guilds docs were begging for the stuff and the price for the stuff was unbelievabe much higher than my guilds docs could pay. so i picked up novice scout and headed out to hunt the stuff pureely searching for random spawns of it and i found i had a nack for it. the spawn lasted 5 days and in that time i pulled well over 20k of meat pretty good for a novice scout and i had a blast doing it. so i figured ranger was the natural next step also cause i pulled in so much meat for the (wich i gave as a donation) i got the title of meat pimp. also after i checked out the ranger forum and saw how cool you all were that sealed the deal.
Nemo0
Tue Oct 26, 2004 11:29 pm
#6
I like to go out and wander. Ranger seemed like the profession most suited to that (maskscent, terrain negotiation, etc).
tondos
Tue Oct 26, 2004 11:33 pm
#7
I suppose the reason I chose Ranger is that I like exploring, wandering around the planets. There is a lot nice sceneries around the galaxy.
When I started to play SWG I decided that first thing to do was to get all the POI badges. And now that I have collected them all, I must say that every ranger (or scout) should do it someday. And among the POI badges, you get also a nice amount of scouting exp, thanks to mask scent and conceal.
When I started to play SWG I decided that first thing to do was to get all the POI badges. And now that I have collected them all, I must say that every ranger (or scout) should do it someday. And among the POI badges, you get also a nice amount of scouting exp, thanks to mask scent and conceal.
ScoerFusou
Tue Oct 26, 2004 11:37 pm
#8
I'm an outdoorsman in RL. I hunt, fish go walking in the woods and try to get myself lost(though it hasn't happened yet since I seem to have a keen sense of direction and can find my way out of the woods in the dark without pins or a compass). As such I find myself drawn to the Scout/Ranger type professions in any game I play.
lammergeier
Tue Oct 26, 2004 11:45 pm
#9
ScoerFusou wrote:I'm an outdoorsman in RL. As such I find myself drawn to the Scout/Ranger type professions in any game I play.
outdoorsman? bah! I was an outdoorsman when I was a wee child of three feet tall!
now? I'm ten feet tall and bulletproof some days (rather... nights), and failing that I'm still a solid 6'4" with big radar feet.
I've put more time into search and rescue than I should have, and I'm trained as an ornithologist with several state-records.
that said... I'm a bartender to pay the bills. since I spend all my working days with impaired morons across the table from me, I figured ranger would be a nice 'return to the pure days of research and observation' that the rent/car/whatever demands have driven me from.
scl
Wed Oct 27, 2004 1:35 am
#10
I think that the ranger is the true hunter/assassin type class of the game. As a Trandoshan ranger and a role player I prefer to play as a predator rather than an outdoors man. We have, after all, all the skills needed to stalk, hunt and kill! (Or mame if you like traps 
)
It makes me think sometimes when I read about people "helping" bounty hunters track jedi and the such. WE should be the ones doing the hunting!
And hell, if nothing else, how cool are HTFB's? They're toooo cool
)It makes me think sometimes when I read about people "helping" bounty hunters track jedi and the such. WE should be the ones doing the hunting!
And hell, if nothing else, how cool are HTFB's? They're toooo cool
Temujin23
Wed Oct 27, 2004 2:46 am
#11
I've been an avid rpg fan since the NES days. The very first PC game I bought was Daggerfall. (The box was so... shiny.)And from the very beginning, I've tended to gravitate towards rangers and thieves, if those classes were available. Never been much for the uber warriors; I like the classes that can hold their own through skillful application of unique talents and/or guile.
SWG rangers have it all, or at least they have the potential for it. Stealth (or the closest thing to it so far), survival skills, neat and sometimes even handy abilities-- add to this an elite combat mastery, and you've got, well, a character that can hold its own without being a lunkheaded hack and slasher.
Our rarity is a double-edged sword, though. I like being a ranger because there aren't that many of us, but the tradeoff is that much-lamented lack of sweet, sweet dev love.
The ranger community is great, too, but it wasn't a deciding factor for me. (I was gonna be a ranger no matter what.) It only sweetened the deal when I later discovered that ours is THE BEST DAMN GROUP OF FOLKS IN THE GALAXIES.
Apologies for the caps, but even I get emphatic at times.
al-djinn'i
Master Ranger/TKM
Almagill
Wed Oct 27, 2004 3:08 am
#12
I was going to be a tailor. Yup. Tailor / BE. Stay in towns and make lots of moola. Become friends with a hotchy-cootch dancer and settle down, have little twi'lek / human hybrid babies... There was no bazaar near the town I lived in (backside end of Rori) so I had to kill critters for hide to grind. I killed a lot of critters. I killed a lot more. Sometimes they killed me.
After a while I had maxed scout XP (the 5k speeder ride to town helped with that big time) and I got the chance to move to a factioned town on Tat. More people, closer to a shuttle, and a crafter town just a hop-skip-jump away. That's when I learned that i was not only pretty useless at killing anything bigger than a womp rat but that I really sucked at PvP too.
To add insult to injury I was given a couple of holo's. ISTR the first was master marksman, which was pretty much simply a case of doing a couple of boxes of rifles (all that time on Rori had done something useful) and then, Go Commando.
I took novice, got bored with it after about an hour, really hated it after a day and a week later decided I had to either quit that profession or get out of the game. I mastered scout that weekend (just needed some camping time and I needed time to go think, so lucky me).
So, next logical step was Ranger. And I've never looked back. After a week or so of doing this I realised there was no way I was ever going to do a profession that I didn't WANT to do myself. So much so that I started on the FS stuff and thought "This is a joke" and have never been back to the village since.
I'm not a grinder, am a Ranger.
After a while I had maxed scout XP (the 5k speeder ride to town helped with that big time) and I got the chance to move to a factioned town on Tat. More people, closer to a shuttle, and a crafter town just a hop-skip-jump away. That's when I learned that i was not only pretty useless at killing anything bigger than a womp rat but that I really sucked at PvP too.
To add insult to injury I was given a couple of holo's. ISTR the first was master marksman, which was pretty much simply a case of doing a couple of boxes of rifles (all that time on Rori had done something useful) and then, Go Commando.
I took novice, got bored with it after about an hour, really hated it after a day and a week later decided I had to either quit that profession or get out of the game. I mastered scout that weekend (just needed some camping time and I needed time to go think, so lucky me).
So, next logical step was Ranger. And I've never looked back. After a week or so of doing this I realised there was no way I was ever going to do a profession that I didn't WANT to do myself. So much so that I started on the FS stuff and thought "This is a joke" and have never been back to the village since.
I'm not a grinder, am a Ranger.
Kiros42
Wed Oct 27, 2004 3:54 am
#13
Originally I chose Ranger / Rifleman as I wanted to RP a concept of an 'old woodsman/hunter' type. As I continued up th epath I learned that I could continue with my concept as well as make some credits which made it that much sweeter. Of course, Sria keeps borrowing all my creds....
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