Ranger Archive

When I joined this game back in August I was thrilled to accomplish the Ranger Proffession. However recently changes in game nad lack of specialization is making the Ranger a dying proffession.

1. Our area track is becoming useless as people use the /who command. Our area track should include faction results too.

2. Our camps are less valuable since you no longer require them to pull pets or vehicles. Our camps should have the same abilities as a cantina or medical center. Especially the HTFBK.

3. Our traps don't improve hunts enough to have people request us to go along. The traps should be able to be used against NPCs and players!! Make us valuable. If we are trying to "hunt men" then when we find them we should be able to trap them. Maybe even make it so BHs want us to tag along.

4. The camo should camo us so well that NPCs, animals, AND PLAYERS can not see us. Camo, mask scent and cover from rifleman should make us invisible. Thus the concept of a ranger.

5. Our harvesting should be NOTICABLY more than even a master scout. So much so that players WANT us to accompany them on hunts.

6. This proffession should be looked at as a NEEDED component for a sucecssful hunt.

7. It requires many skill points to master since it is an elite style proff. Make it worth our time.

8. Give us a special ability to infiltrate an area without being seen, or target and recon vuln times at faction bases or something.

Believe me this could be one of the most exciting proff. in the galaxy if it was tweaked just a little bit.

General O'Dinwaa
Master Rifle/Almost Master Ranger but should I?
Soldiers of Fayth
Rebel WO2

Stealth could be implemented in a very fun, yet balanced way.

Just take us off the player's radar screen, and allow us to stay off the radar screen as long as we're prone or crawling. That'd make our crawl speed more useful, too.

I'd love to team with a couple of other rangers to sneak up on bases and such.

Yea sorry thanks for the correction. Any news from the devs on an update or revamp?

Honestly not yet...

we are not scheduled for any revamp or upgrades in the near future. However, your observations on Rangers are astute and accurate

some of us have been around for a long long time...and the problems we had in day one, well....we're still having.

Please continue to participate in the batting around of ideas..

Wow! Deja vue

I agree wholeheartedly, but I honestly don't think anything is going to happen for a *long* time. Look at where the attention is going, development wise, and you won't find Ranger anywhere near that.

#5 I've been going on about for a long time, as it seems like it would be the easiest thing to tweak on the development side. The little bit of extra harvest we get for being Master Ranger over someone who just has Scout Hunting 4 is pathetic.

Rangers *should* be the best creature hunters out there, bar none - droid or no droid, skill tape or no skill tape, BE clothes or no BE clothes. It shouldn't even be a competition.