Ranger Archive

Ok I love being a Ranger! Most of us love being Rangers and it seems that is what is hurting our profession the most. We all love the idea of the "Ranger" and because we are sticking it out, our profession is not getting the same amount of concern as the others.

Rangers are support. Will I don't know any group that needs a Ranger. Oh yes it much nicer to have one but with as many scouts out there most groups don't need a Ranger.

Rangers provide so much Bio stuff. With everyone in their brother being a scout we could all walk away from Ranger and little would be felt if any on the Bio sales.

Rangers in combat. Will lets not go there because now with so many socal mobs we don't stand outeven in PVE and we all know the PVP outcome.

I for one would like the Ranger to be more than the bigger broken version of a Scout! What can we do to get the Dev's work on our class? I don't know any other way then for them to see that there are NO RANGERS!

It seems to me if I want to get a bit more respect I should move up and become a Chef!

Now before you respond with "How TN crawl is so great" or "Tracking is great for newb monsters around a city" or anything like how Ranger is going to be so great. Please look at what your doing. Your saying we like the dream of what Ranger might become not WHAT IT IS.

WHAT I am asking is how should we get the Dev's to hear us and do something? Should we all meet up on the Test Center and run tracked tests. Should we all Call someone or do something? How can we effect change?

"It seems to me if I want to get a bit more respect I should move up and become a Chef!"

From what I hear from SirVimes, that move would not be an advisable one.

Ron,

Our issues ARE being addressed. You've got two brand spanking new skills added to Rangers, and a whole bunch more on the way. But there are 33 (34 technically) in this game, and we can't expect to get 100% of the Devs attention 100% of the time.

The Devs are paying attention to us. Every major patch has had a Ranger/Scout change in it - often more than one.

That's more than can be said for many a profession.

So just be patient. Things are getting better.

B

I agree with these nice folks. As a whole, ranger is still a good profession if you like the idea of a ranger. I do agree with you about the number of scouts limiting our usefulness, but I would hardly put us in the same category as chefs lol

The frontierring and trapping revamps will go a very long way towards making usa commodity. The Hunting Blind alone imo will be worth the point cost of the entire frontierring tree. (although I hope they make it a master level schematic, sorry in advance to the dabblers). The new traps will also help us solo and group more effectively. Hopefully this every-mob-and-it's-mob-is-social thing is a bug and will get fixed. hint hint.

My only wish is to stop nerfingCH and just boost Ranger.

Ok, been a scout/ranger since day 1. Have we been nerfed....no, tho some of the corrections have people stating we have been. Are things still broken... yeah, but hey, how many Devs can they have to add/fix/subtract all 33/34 professions.

I was talking with a protege/collegue ( I train the meathead on a frequent basis, and he finally listened and went pistol) and he verified the following. Go to Dantooine/Lok/Dathomir/Endor. Don't say squat. Just sit there with the Ranger sign on your head. Betcha if there are people there you get invites to every group going out... mainly for tracking and the camps, and traps too. I have been contacted about finding certain animals for people, I get paid for finding them...not killing them, finding them. All they want me to do is find the beastie, pop a camp nearby and chill while they attempt to kill it.

Will we get better? Remains to be seen, but I think we will. Traps will get fixed, we will get new ones, we will eventually be able to use em on NPCs and pets. We get new camps, and the old ones get fixed. I am the eternal non - optimist non-pessimist, but I know that eventually, we will be rewarded. And the situation we are in right now is not that bad.

Anyhow, g'wan, be a Chef... eggs, 100cpu...milk, 500cpu (if I could find the stuff). You may want to become a Hairdresser, lol.

JB

btw, for those keeping track, the original post qualifies as a whine... nearly a snivel, and not too far off from a snot sling when he mentioned the Chef stuff.

" Every major patch has had a Ranger/Scout change in it - often more than one."


the moment you realise we are rangers, not ranger/scouts, we will be happy

That's it right there! Yes the devs are working on us and as a rifleman let me tell you, just a touch of Dev love is a good thing. Many classes are getting shafted compaired to us. However I do see the big problem is that very few people separate Scouts and Rangers.