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Thread: Alternative to revamping ranger...
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DaveG
Mon Sep 20, 2004 7:42 pm
#1
Dont' take this too seriously just an idea to toy with...
Since we all agree that we are not getting a satisfactory return on our 140 skill points. How about simply reducing the skill point requirement for the ranger profession, then we have more skill points left over to invest in other skills (like more combat, for example) to make up for the ranger short comings?
Fodder650
Mon Sep 20, 2004 8:21 pm
#2
The last couple times this came up it turned into this
"Just because thats how they didnt fix Bounty Hunter by giving them extra points. They wont fix ranger by lowering the points either. They should fix our skills not lower the point costs"
Not necessarily my opinion. But thats what the last thread degraded into.
pkirk25
Tue Sep 21, 2004 1:25 am
#3
Do we all agree that ranger is lacking? Here's a profession that makes hunting almost twice as profitable for me as for my non-ranger team-mates. Right now, a three hour buff makes us over a million credits. On Chimaera, there's talk of endor wooly spawn where rangers earn 1 million per hour. Do we we really need more? Most people I meet think rangers are an elite profession in terms of income and status.
tondos
Tue Sep 21, 2004 1:40 am
#4
pkirk25 wrote:
Do we all agree that ranger is lacking? Here's a profession that makes hunting almost twice as profitable for me as for my non-ranger team-mates. Right now, a three hour buff makes us over a million credits. On Chimaera, there's talk of endor wooly spawn where rangers earn 1 million per hour. Do we we really need more? Most people I meet think rangers are an elite profession in terms of income and status.
Million credits?! What are you hunting? I'm starting to feel poor... I whish I had millions
pkirk25
Tue Sep 21, 2004 3:27 am
#5
I'm on Chimaera hunt bolle bol right now. I make about 400000 credits an hour. You need to get a team of 4 or five to make the decent money and get far away from Theed where you lose lots of time driving to and from missions. Last night we hunted in Falkland and it was like a license to print money - good missions all within 500m of towns edge.
Endor Wooly is in spawn and armorsmiths are going nuts for. I know a scout how made 2 million on a buff last night (or at least says he did). I've never been to Endor and this seems a nice way to get to know part of the planet so will try tonight. The hide fetches 60cpu.
Endor Wooly is in spawn and armorsmiths are going nuts for. I know a scout how made 2 million on a buff last night (or at least says he did). I've never been to Endor and this seems a nice way to get to know part of the planet so will try tonight. The hide fetches 60cpu.
Owen-Lars
Tue Sep 21, 2004 3:52 am
#6
"Since we all agree that we are not getting a satisfactory return on our 140 skill points. How about simply reducing the skill point requirement for the ranger profession, then we have more skill points left over to invest in other skills (like more combat, for example) to make up for the ranger short comings?"
Hehe, you realy dont like revamps do you dave? 
You dont want a combat revamp, you dont want a ranger revamp hehe, what next? no gcw revamp
On the skillpoint front though, im happy keeping the skill point requirement if we get added to later on. No matter what the skill point requirement is, its still going to be wasted skill points in ranger so i think the best thing is to sit tight and wait for a revamp to add to our profession.
darmokVtS
Tue Sep 21, 2004 4:37 am
#7
pkirk25 wrote:
I know a scout how made 2 million on a buff last night (or at least says he did). I've never been to Endor and this seems a nice way to get to know part of the planet so will try tonight. The hide fetches 60cpu.
33k of endor wooly in one buff duration isn't even remotly a problem for a combat prof master with some decent harvesting skills.
I guess I should measure the amount I can get from that stuff in my current state, the last good endor wooly shift on my server was month ago while I was still working on rifleman (and there I was able to grab iirc ~20k from one buff duration and that with being awfully slow shooting
).However to the actual topic of this thread:
Reducing the skillpoints needed for our profession would only be possible with reducing the prerequisites. But as Master scout makes perfect sense to be prerequisite for ranger this is not really reasonable to think of (bounty hunter was a different topic there).
Message Edited by darmokVtS on 09-21-2004 01:53 PM
DaveG
Tue Sep 21, 2004 6:18 am
#8
Aww Owen, don't put words into my mouth. I'dlove a ranger revamp (just read the other current big threads for proof of that).
Owen-Lars wrote:
You dont want a combat revamp, you dont want a ranger revamp hehe, what next? no gcw revamp
Don't get me started on the combat revamp again! (Besides, I'll have plenty of "I told you so"type of posts to make after it comes out!)
Message Edited by DaveG on 09-21-2004 02:19 PM
Rhyeal
Tue Sep 21, 2004 6:27 am
#9
it makes sense to require master scout for ranger. lets just get updated, then those dabblers can whine that it takes too many skill points to get to our awesome hunting level.
Iseult
Tue Sep 21, 2004 7:32 am
#10
pkirk25 wrote:
Do we all agree that ranger is lacking? Here's a profession that makes hunting almost twice as profitable for me as for my non-ranger team-mates. Right now, a three hour buff makes us over a million credits. On Chimaera, there's talk of endor wooly spawn where rangers earn 1 million per hour. Do we we really need more? Most people I meet think rangers are an elite profession in terms of income and status.
well yes - this is a good point, but you can do this by only going ranger 0040. If the only point of ranger is to be a better harvester (and I'm not sure I agree with this), then you can do this with only the 0040 line, which is where all of our creature knowledge, harvesting, and tracking mods are. Well, you do get some bonuses at master ranger, but not enough to make that much of a difference.
I mean, I suppose that you can make ranger cost less without any help from the devs. Just get 0040 and be done with it....
Iseult
Master Ranger / Mediocre Rifleperson
Bloodfin
Owen-Lars
Tue Sep 21, 2004 8:28 am
#11
Aww Owen, don't put words into my mouth. I'dlove a ranger revamp (just read the other current big threads for proof of that).
Don't get me started on the combat revamp again! (Besides, I'll have plenty of "I told you so"type of posts to make after it comes out!)
Hehe, you know im only messing
I predict lots of "im sorry i doubted you owen, combat is truly fun now" posts coming my way after it comes out
Fred_Skinner
Tue Sep 21, 2004 9:20 am
#12
I say just give us stealth and call it even.
...WHAT?!? Oh, c'mon, I havn't done it in at least 2 weeks
Phenix1050
Tue Sep 21, 2004 9:22 am
#13
Personally I expect a lot of "hmmm...this isn't exactly what I thought it was gonna be....." threads from Dave
followed by a lot of "yeah...uh...well this is different" replies from Owen.
Me? I'm gonna go off and find a punchbowl 'cause for the first time ever on the ranger forum, I'm feeling a bit tired of it all
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