Ranger Archive

if you're grinding Ranger, first off, I'd say keep your combat level LOW. Here's why:right now, trapping is borked. if you trap a creature of a level lower than yours, you'll get around 1 XP per trap. NOT worth it. of course, without the trapping modifiers in ranger, you can't trap things that are close to your level because you'll always miss. So, keep your combat level low while you level trapping in both scout and Ranger or you'll end up having to trap a few hundred thousand creatures.

but to address your question-- almost any profession can be effective with Ranger. Personally, I think Rifles and BH are the two best professions to match with Ranger, but carbs would work just fine with their crowd control abilities. Taking BH saves you skillspoints so you can get other skills as well. The template I'll be using is Master Ranger, Master BH, SL 0200, and Marksman 0020 (so my proton carbine will be faster and more accurate) with some FS skills.

basically it's about how you play. I tend to like to play tactically, keeping animals from hitting me. so I don't worry about accuracy since I don't mind taking a long time to bring a critter down. I just want defenses in case the creature DOES get me. So BH has decent defenses and Duelist stance works like a charm. but you lose weapon-specific speed and accuracy from a profession like carbineer.

Carbines rock. Seems like a lot of people are headed that way though. The crowd control of it is non-existant, but the damage level of a good carbine is enough to pull agro from any tanking profession. When I have a tank with me I'll ease their job by throwing a trap and using a carbine snare. When there isn't a tank it's imperative to do the same. I feel having been a carbineer for a long time and having some really good equipment I can compete very well with the damage levels of many rifles, without the disadvantage of having to be prone for my best shot.

The most important part of changing from a melee ranger is to know that you can /harvestcorpse from 15 meters away, so you don't need to be right on top of the creature anyway.

I'm grinding ranger again in combo with carbineer to get the best battle armour mitigation I can. Works quite nicely for me. Not quite as good as my master doc/rifleman comabt toon but great for harvesting creature resources and of course we can now sell camo kits to the great unwashed My only concern is the lack of healing, even with Ruby Bliel, stims take too long so I rely on snaring traps to keep the mobs off my back.

My only combat skills are BH 0/4/4/4, I can use any ranged weapon, but my current favourite is my carbine, the range seems to work ok both solo and in a group.

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Dymund wrote:
I'm grinding ranger again in combo with carbineer to get the best battle armour mitigation I can.

Regards

Mentet/Dymund/Qbic

Chilastra

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Mitigation doesn't stack to give you improvements in rate of fire more movement. Ranger/Riflemen have exactly the same battle armor mitigation as Ranger/Carbineer, the difference is Carbineers can't wear recon armor at all, which is what I'd kill for in PvP, since there's so little kinetic damage out there right now.