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Dont flame me too bad for this but I was under the impression that the ranger was a support prof that you would use with say master pistol carb or rifle. I dont see why you guys cant get a weapon that becomes available when you hit a combo of profs say like a rangers rifle if your a master rifleman and ranger.

I feel giving the ranger a class weapon will then add to having all rangers be the same say like if the weapon is a pistol you get cert for at novice then ever ranger will also do pistoleer so they can make the most of that weapon. Or give them a weapon and then add skills to there trees already. Being that explore traps and survile have nothing to do with combat. It leaves the hunting tree. Thatcould be replaced with combat skills after all how much + to harvest do you need.

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TarannisBane wrote:

Dont flame me too bad for this but I was under the impression that the ranger was a support prof that you would use with say master pistol carb or rifle. I dont see why you guys cant get a weapon that becomes available when you hit a combo of profs say like a rangers rifle if your a master rifleman and ranger.

I feel giving the ranger a class weapon will then add to having all rangers be the same say like if the weapon is a pistol you get cert for at novice then ever ranger will also do pistoleer so they can make the most of that weapon. Or give them a weapon and then add skills to there trees already. Being that explore traps and survile have nothing to do with combat. It leaves the hunting tree. Thatcould be replaced with combat skills after all how much + to harvest do you need.

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TarannisBane wrote:

Dont flame me too bad for this but I was under the impression that the ranger was a support prof that you would use with say master pistol carb or rifle. I dont see why you guys cant get a weapon that becomes available when you hit a combo of profs say like a rangers rifle if your a master rifleman and ranger.

I feel giving the ranger a class weapon will then add to having all rangers be the same say like if the weapon is a pistol you get cert for at novice then ever ranger will also do pistoleer so they can make the most of that weapon. Or give them a weapon and then add skills to there trees already. Being that explore traps and survile have nothing to do with combat. It leaves the hunting tree. Thatcould be replaced with combat skills after all how much + to harvest do you need.

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I agree with you on most of that, but many of us see a need for a more profession-specific weapon. The main reason, I think, is that traps aren't nearly useful enough. Most of us Masters only used traps to get to Master and no longer use them. If the traps were made more useful, then I agree that we don't need anything more weapon related.

But if we can get another fun toy, I still think a Star Wars bow, with arrows crafted by us ourselves with effects ranging from poison to paralysis would be a neat thing. It wouldn't be really great in PvP, but that's not why I would want it. It would be really useful in hunting animals.

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  Silent- we could sneak up on creatures and not have to break our cover to attack. It wouldn't be good enough so we would never have to break cover, but it would give us an edge before we had to.


• Effects- paralysis or poison to make hunting the big creatures a little easier. Not super powerful, but enough to get us started with the kill.

Those are my two main thoughts, anybody else got anything to add?

I'm with those who think that the idea of a bow is kinda silly.. I mean, the idea of fencers and swordsmen is kinda silly in the SW universe if you ask me. Pikemen have some minor precedent, but they're otherwise just as silly. The only reason melee classes exist is because gamers think that every game should have melee classes, despite the fact that you never really see anyone besides Jedi mixing it up with anything that doesn't shoot glowy bits of light in the SW movies.

A trap thrower.. Sure. Why not. But not a bow. We're not ewoks, even if some of us look like really, really tall ewoks.

P.S. I carry a bowcaster alongside my T-21. It's like the carbine of rifles. Medium range, fairly fast speed, pretty low HAM costs. It's a good defensive weapon.

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KaiRaene wrote:

I never see a wookie carrying a bowcaster. lol. Never!

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