Ranger Archive

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solderuk wrote:

Is there A guide i can read the ones posted here seem to bit a couple of years old

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That's because nothing has changed in the profession for 2 years

Well, no, actually there have been changes...BUGS...lots of them. Off the top of my head the main ones are:
-Both ranger traps and most of the scout traps are either broken or useless when used in combat.
-Rescue does not work.
-In most cases maskscent/conceal makes you more at risk to being discovered (and attacked), even at Master Ranger. A fix for this should be coming out soon though. (also, camo does not work on Kashyyyk at all)
-Creature knowledge does not work (we used to be able to see all stats for creatures, now everyone sees the same)
-Camps do not repel aggro (and are nothing more than eye-candy now)

However, these topics are discussed regularly on the forum. If you're confused or struggling with anything, just do a forum search (if it's working) and if you still haven't found anything after a while post a new thread (like you've just done ). Also, Owen has just written a New Ranger Template Guide if that's of any use to you

Tracking works though right

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solderuk wrote:

Tracking works though right

thats all very discouraging pls tell me didn't go though nine hours of traping grinding find that everthing is broken it was really painful espcaily as i could find any food to buff me

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Trapping is not completely broken, you use traps to land states.

The bonus' you get to harvesting as a Master Ranger are good.

Camo. when it works is alot of fun and very usefull. But you get very different results depending on which planet you are on.

I mastered Ranger before any other profession, so I have no idea what it is like to use those sp's for additional combat professions, but..... as a MR and respec master rifleman I can solo lairs up to CL82.

And one day, the devs might improve/fix (depends on your point of view) our profession.

My advice to you is GO FOR IT, get that Master Ranger title and wear it with pride

EDIT: I take contracts to hunt x amount of this or that resource. Even at 4-8 cpu you can get 100k stacks suprisingly quickly where you can take missions for the required animal suplemented with the extra one you find using track.

Message Edited by Aenedor on 08-03-2005 01:34 PM

Replace the adhesive mesh with the Phecnacine Dart and you'll be a little better off throwing traps as a rifleman. Some of the other traps do actually have an effect as landing states, but they don't have ENOUGH of an effect to make it worth losing a combat round of firing any halfway decent rifle. Dizzy/stun might add 10 damage to every hit, but then you'd need to hit the creature over 80 times to make up for the damage you lose when you threw the trap and didn't shoot your rifle.

Where you are right now, you can go walk around endor and throw at least 4 traps at every level 45ish creature for a lot of stacked trapping exp. Try the Phecnacine Dart, Glow Wire, Stink Bomb, and a lecepanine(sp) dart all in a row, then start shooting. The effects should all stack and you should get exp for 4 traps instead of one.

I'm just sorry they got rid of the Frontiering tree's survival exp requirement, that was always the gate to the true Ranger. Once people got past that, they really thought twice about dropping Ranger, heh.

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solderuk wrote:

Hello there ive droped tkm after 2 years of being one (can't make it do damager anymore just a suit of armour now :smileymad and dediced to try ranger/rifleman so far quite fun.

Ive mastered rifleman and scout and got to novice Ranger (reeally proud of that took along time to get traping 4) but now I have some questions Please can you answer them for me

:What exactley should I be doing to make make money

look for hot resources. AS's use high OQ/SR Dant Wooly, Lokian LEathery, and Nabooian Bristley. Also any meat with good Flavor, OQ, and PE are good for chefs/BE's. If your server has a RIN chat that's a good way to get in the know on resources and make crafter contacts

o our traps work ive thron out some adhesive mesh ones but they don't seeem to root or do anything

As stated before Ad. Mesh doesn't work. P-darts are good for a snare, and i use bone spurs, which cause blind, to single pull critters, even though as a Rifleman you have cover shot.

:Should I buy a droid with a harvesting & traping module on it and what do the bonus numbers mean

I love my trapping droid. Put some trapping mods and combat mods in it and it awsome. I use him for all solo hunting. He can hold 24 traps so it's nice to not have to manually keep applying the traps, and not lose a combat round throwing them.

: Is there A guide i can read the ones posted here seem to bit a couple of years old

umm not a specific guide per say. Lot of good info goes through the forums everyday, i would browse

any other advie would be handy

I would definantly try to find some rangers on your server. They are good for showing the ropes and also finding hunting contracts. Also i learend a lot from hunting with Rangers on my server. Most servers have a RIN (ranger information network) chat channel you can join. I'd start there.

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