Ranger Archive

think about an answer that would make you very sad...

there ya go.

Not very useful.

Except as a meat shield/target.

Well, I'm a Ranger and considered myself highly useful on the 3 successful attempts we made at the Corvette this weekend (all 3 neutral versions).

Unfortunately I have to admit that none of my actual Ranger skills did anything at all for the group. My TKA skills helped a lot - as the Wookiee, I mainly just kept the targets intimidated and/or knocked down - and I served as the primary looter and secondary group lead. The actual leader was working on SL, so she kept us alive with that, and our smuggler did most of the actual switch flipping, and I just tried to keep everyone coordinated.

So I guess in that respect, I played the part of a Ranger - someone who guides the team through safely. But traps don't hit anything up there, you can't camp, you can't camo and you can't track (not that it would matter up there) so yeah.

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WildBil2Me wrote:

Just kidding. though you may find rescue helpful in keeping your doc on his feet.

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You are useful as the "sacrifice" to the killer droid room, you become the "logical" choice sense you have the least to contribute. Happy thought, eh?

Has anyone heard or have a link to any future adventures of this type where we might be more than target practice for some droid?

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dhcpSilicon wrote:

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WildBil2Me wrote:

Just kidding. though you may find rescue helpful in keeping your doc on his feet.

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That's what /taunt is for =)

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yeah but if I use /rescue I don't feel like it's a totally worthless addition... that and I'm not a brawler. plus you don't have to think about using a skill with a description that includes "neener neener neener"

-WB

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Fred_Skinner wrote:
You are useful as the "sacrifice" to the killer droid room, you become the "logical" choice sense you have the least to contribute. Happy thought, eh?

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Odd... I happened to be the damage dealer in my group. You might be able to guess that we didn't make it very far.

Lythender Nirou
Master Ranger/Master Rifleman
Eclipse Server

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Ackis wrote:
Meh, to do the vette, you get naked, go up and make sure you have meditation 4 at least and neutron pixie. LOL

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You are right..I forgot all about Meditation. It was nice to not have any wounds, but I was still gettting 1 shot like mad. Also, most of the people in my group stripped down after they lost their buffs (stored everything in their droids). I don't use armor, so I bought some no BE'd clothes for my Corvette runs. That was if the decay, it is no big deal.

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Calculus_Entropy wrote:
As far as Ranger skills are concerned, I heard if you walk, you get aggroed less. I thought that maybe crawling would be even better. Neither of these theories hold water IMO .

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I can verify that walking DOES get you aggro'd MUCH less. It's creepy, but you can basically walk anywhere on the ship except for the high-security areas. Sometimes the hallway security jumps you, but they're easy to deal with.

In my experience, all bets were off after you got aggroed for the first time. There were times where I could wander around a high security room for longer than I could walk past the hall cronies. I will admit, I only tried this once. I will try walking again when I go up tonight. FYI, I have only been on the Rebel Corvette, so different faction missions may yield different results.