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I'm told our Combat Level will remain high but there are no defenses in the ranger trees.
I'm a little concerned frankly.

I'm trying to find a combo with rifles that will allow me to wear battle armour as well as scout armour.

Please advise

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Most of us, if not all of us love Scout/Ranger so, yes it will still be worth it. One problem with M Rilfeman/M Ranger aside from not have added specials, added defenses and offensive bonuses, you have to different Armor certifications. At first glance this seems great, but if you don't have sufficient armor mitigation you will be emcumbered all the time. The only set of armor that you will be able to wear without encumberance is the basic set of either Recon for Rifleman or Battle for Ranger. If you go above this to get better defenses you will become encumbered and it will tell you that you move slower, and believe me you will (not a good idea in a fight) because you are not certified for the armor you are wearing. The more the encumberance the slower speed and slower reactions you will have, plus some to your actual accuarcy as well. So you are better off going with either two professions in Recon, which means only takingsome of Ranger, which isn't necessarily bad, or taking two in Battle like carbines or one of the brawler professions except TKA which has natural toughness which can not help with armor mitigation nor does it stack with any other armor.

So think about the various trade offs before you decide on a professon to go with Ranger.

Jolandir

Is ranger worthwhile after the CU?

Short answer - no.

this is becasue of the level system which removes the use of any tactics (i.e. soloing rancors in your tshirt with a cdef and some traps). plus the the lack of bonuses for rangers which other professions get. Just go on TCEP3 and have a look for yourself.

Perhaps in another 2 years we may get a revamp but, i think its more likely that lucasarts will react to the CU and pull SOE and SWG apart (please god!!!).

To those people who say the CU will change before it goes live, not really, it hasnt changed that much since TCEP3 came up and i cant see any major changes in the next 2 weeks, they are far too busy trying trying to iron out some of the loads of bugs that currently exist.

My advice to everyone is to go to TCEP3 and check it out for yourselves and decide what you want to go for when the WOWars, i mean CU hits!

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If you are only considering harvesting performance then I would say no. They will have to make some drastic changes to the CU before it hits live to address this. Add some general accy/spd bonuses for both melee and ranged and some melee and ranged defence throughout the ranger trees would be one quick way to address this in lieu of some future mythical ranger revamp.

I did some quick testing comparing total harvesting speed/amount with my current live template MR/TKA and a new template of scout 4044, MBH MC SL 0004 andI felt that theMBH one was harvesting slightly quicker and plus the MBH one has a pile of otehr content available to keep you entertaiend when not harvesting.

I need to go back and test things more fully, but it took me about 35 mins to take down the dewback lair as MR/TKA and about 10 mins to do it via MBH, given the approx 3:1 harvesting rates I ended up with more hide per lair as ranger but could get through the lairs much quicker with MBH.

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i'm staying with ranger and see what happens.

i think i'm gonna pick up the pistol line of bh just for kicks

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I did some pvp testing as a rifleman/ranger and had a blast. granted i don't have root but i do have snare. the terrain was hilly. I played as an imp raiding anchorhead. I used scout armor and a psg and managed to take quite a bit of people out using a t21 and tactics. having all the terrain negotiation helps out alot. i used LoS to my advantage and drove the melee prof people nuts using snare as well as the ranged people. i'd snare em and run into a ditch. coming in and out to kite em. I even took out a melee guy and a ranged guy at the same time doing this. Ultimately alot of fun so long as you take advantage of your surroundings.

This is why I will stay with my current template:

Rescue is a very good asset that I have to help with many occasions as a Master Combatant. TKM will allow me to take the damage that I am trying to get to come at me, and Enhanced Taunt gives another dimension of using diversions to help others or myself.

Tracking is awesome if you can't get a big enough group together to pull certain creature missions. It also helps avoiding Nightsisters and such when you would not be able to survive such an encounter.

Camouflage helps me stay out of combat that I really don't want to be a part of. It helps in big group missions, where you are trying (again) to divert attention from key players, combatants or otherwise.

Teras Kasi Master allows me to do without armor and weapons, which will take time getting used to anyways, so I will be able to save money on those items and still retain effectiveness. BTW, Unarmed damage for TKs was increased (despite popular belief) in the Combat Upgrade.

I will be more effective in the CU version than I am now. I cannot speak for other combinations, though.

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