Ranger Archive
Thread: ranger grind
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Fodder650
Mon Feb 28, 2005 12:27 am
#2
http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=ranger&message.id=83560
Check out the links under "Guides" for mastering scout and ranger
To answer your question. No not really its about the same as scout just longer. Go with friends to Dath and you will level up columns 1 and 3. Go to the lost city on Talus and do the balcony thing JB likes so much and the trapping piece isnt that hard to master. Or toss traps while your leveling up your scouting xp on Dath.
Then theres camping....
Sit in camp
disband camp every 22 minutes
craft new camps while sitting in camp
Its very very slow but doable.
What are you hoping to get out of ranger when you master it?
JascoSmlee
Mon Feb 28, 2005 4:05 am
#3
Atychewobus wrote:
is the ranger grind hard?
What is this 'grind' you speak of?
JBMat
Mon Feb 28, 2005 4:45 am
#4
If you think of it as a grind, then yes, it's hard, long and not very rewarding.
If you think of it as having fun harvesting animals, learning stuff about creatures, and camping with friends, then no - it's actually a blast.
You tell me
JB
Tsujigiri
Mon Feb 28, 2005 8:23 am
#5
Also, you can get Survival experience from fishing. If you drop a camp while your toes are in the water, it will drop below water level and you can fish while you are in your camp, so that speeds things along a bit. The fact that the camp levels out the terrain makes burst fishing easy, too.
tekniko
Mon Feb 28, 2005 10:01 am
#6
Atychewobus wrote:is the ranger grind hard?
Grind? What grind? If you think it's a grind, then you should probably invest your time and skill points in something else. If you look at developing your Ranger character and skill set as a grind, you will probably be more satisfied with a combat profession.
If you made it through Scout to Master and still look forward to doing much the same, only better and with greater yield (and more impressive camps), then charge ahead. Ranger is a profession that tends to weed out the quitters and dabblers in short order. If you have the perserverence to stick it out, you will be rewarded.
I found that, no matter what other professions I explored, my style of play went right back to Ranger. I especially enjoyed camping. Put up a field base somewhere and watch the players roll in.
We had a guild-on-guild war over the weekend and, I am sad to say, the other guild won. It was a simple matter of numbers: our 8 could not contend effectively with their 44. However, it was great in that I was able to use my Ranger skills to our advantage.
Without my tracking, it might have been far worse. I was initially able to track them on the way in and my mates took the invaders one at a time, concentrating on the more dangerous individuals first. I then tracked them to their rally point and we visited pain upon them. Some of the opposition discovered the hard way that huurton howlers DB when they came after me.
Then it got pretty bad. The invaders just kept coming. They poured in and we were beaten back. Without superior terrain negotiation, I'd have been living at the clone bank. As it was, we were all wounded seriously and many of us had to fight our way back from the cloning station at the Mining Outpost.
After the initial victory on our part turned into a rout because of their overwhelming numbers, we had to run. They were not interested in following me on foot through voritor country on Dantooine, so I was able to find a shady spot where my guild could rally and plan. I kept putting up field bases and we planned our next move.
Several camps later and with our wounds healed, I set off on foot to recon our objective. I found that they had left only three players guarding the area and my mates moved in to deal with them. I played sniper from a grassy knoll.
Being a Ranger is great fun.
Message Edited by tekniko on 02-28-2005 11:04 AM
MeridithGentry
Mon Feb 28, 2005 10:32 am
#7
The "grind" if you take your time can be fun. If you are making it a chore with some planning it can be done in 24 hrs. Here is how if you are a Master Scout already andtrained in Novice ranger.
1. Get a Jedi (knight prefered), add a Master ranger.
2. get buffs
3. go to dath and send super ginsu to kill rancors (dont do missions just go to rancor alley).
4. Have MR harvest Hide you harvest bone.
5. when ever you can train train from the MR. You will finish 2 trees in like a hr.
6. While still buffed or get a fresh one got to dantooine and pull a single High creature (i did Horned voritors 800+xp) throw the glow wire traps at it till you are ready to train. you will get xp for most of them. I trained the entire trapping tree off of a single creature.
7. take hide and bone to naboo and camp while in camp craft the highest level camp you can craft. (note Use a macro) not wrong just frowned upon. Auto it is wrong. there is a Ranger trainer in Theed so you can train there. Also every 15 min diband and set up a new camp you should be maxed out.
8. take nap.
Please note if you are looking to be a ranger for the fun of rangerdom it is a great class but unless you have been a ranger before I would not grind it as you loose a lot in the training and finess of the class.
Meridith
Flurry
PS emial if you have questions
JascoSmlee
Mon Feb 28, 2005 10:38 am
#8
MeridithGentry wrote:
there is a Ranger trainer in Theed so you can train there.
He's got good camo then, I only found one in Kadaara on Naboo 
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