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Flame this one if you want, haven't really thought it through fully for balance purposes.

While this doesn't help melee pvp much it would be cool if advanced survival rangers got the "climb" skill so they could climb buildings to take up sniper positions.

You'd still be vulnerable to attack from below by CH with bird pets, and probably not be able to go fully prone because of the Line of Sight issues with the tops of buildings.

It could be counterbalanced by giving TK Masters or certain melee MASTER classes the ability to climb, perhaps not as fast as rangers...

This is mainly a PvP skill I'm thinking of here to allow rangers to have a bit more a spice role.

Maybe they could even climb, conceal (so even though they are overt they dont show up as a flaming big red dot) and then just give info to the fighters until such time as they engage and conceal drops...

- Baelish

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Be great, except what if I am a melee Ranger, or a pistol Ranger? What good is climbing a building gonna do me then?

It has been decreed, /conceal will not take you off radar, at least for the time being. Besides, if you think about it, /conceal should not even work in a city....Hey Joe, why is there a bush in the middle of the street ?... I dunno Sam, must be a Ranger.

Rangers have a spice role in PvP, I use /areatrack, find out who is where, tell my friends, then go thereand pepper them with shots (ohhh, bad pun, bad pun).

Not a flame, actually I would like to be able to climb trees and get away from some ground based beasties. Or climb trees and wreck rasp nests, them lil evil boids anyhow.

Needs work - remember, some misguided souls do not use rifles. They like to stay alive in close combat instead of waiting 4.5 for their rifles to fire again. Tho the guys with swords and Flung Poo worry me (sorry Hrat and Mylar, just kidding... free heals for you two later).

JB

It would be neat, but something like this won't happen.Have you ever gone up to one of the balconies and tried to fire at someone in the street? Line of sight interfers every time.

I've found a few elevated places to fire from, but they are few and far between.

Something like this might have me retire my pistol.... nah, doubtful. I like my prey to look me in the eyes as it dies...

I think it would be very hard to implement due to line of sight but also, I think rangers would be better suited for climbing trees rather than buildings, we are one with nature rather than one with concrete.

Not a bad idea but at this point it isn't feasible as there is no z-axis in the game maybe there will be in when the space exspansion comes out but who knows if that will apply to the planets or just space travel.

Not quite sure about this building climbing thing...a few days after it would come out we would find a fat, muscular wookie with black fur climbing up the capitol of Coronet while holding a creature handler and roaring. Maybe the tree thing would be good, though.