Ranger Archive

Ok, I've been away for a couple of days, so now I get to add to my fellow Rangers' plea.

Please, I do not want to only have to master 2 trees to get Ranger. I enjoy every tree of Scout, and I need every tree of scout as they build upon the ones in Ranger. If anything is to be done to scout, then condense all 4 scout trees into 2 Ranger prerequisite ones and make 2 pre-Creature Handler trees (which is what happened to Medic in respect to Doctor and Combat Medic.)

Let us obtain the health bonuses from Ranger skill boxes and Scout skill boxes. We have to hit, to damage, and defense bonuses, and on top of that our traps always start combat when thrown. The only defensive abilities we have as a class feature are Camo and Mask Scent, and their purpose is to avoid combat with the creatures we are intended to fight with our bonuses to hit and damage.

Give us a Ranger Hat. I think that this is past due, and it is not at all difficult to integrate. Let us show our pride for having mastered a profession that many do not. I believe that, since dancers have leotards, doctors have sidebags, and crafters have tool sets, why can't we have some item that helps with our crafting, fighting, or camouflage abilities? Even a +5 would be nice, nothing big.

Give us at least one weapon certification. Hunters rarely use traps. I have gone hunting with my family on many occasions, and I have never seen any one of them chase and kill an animal with their bare hands. Traps only affect the target, and bring them to you (out of anger, or wishing to make close combat attacks.) Even if the weapon could only be made from creature-dropped pieces, that would only make it a grander idea for Rangers because we could be proud of the efforts we went through to hunt down the creatures and make the weapon ourselves (or have a weaponsmith make it.) It would only put that much more value into it.

If we can't have a weapon certification, then at least let us make weapon powerups that we can attach to our weapons which have limited uses (severly limited even) but have the exact same effect as traps upon the target. I know that logistics would restrict that from energy weapons, but since I'm a Teras Kasi, some rangers are swordsmen/pikemen/fencers, and Rifles can be non-laser ammunition types, this is an acceptable alternative.

I am not sure why we got the "all-around" armor proficiency, but we should get the higher bonus to kinetic as that is the only type of damage that creatures can deal of the two considered in new armor types. I do not understand why we were given the average protection type, but I do believe that it will become a problem for us in the future.

Tracking is awesome. There is no argument there. I would like to know, however, why we are able to track players. Is this a way around the Rifleman ability to drop off the radar? I would hope so.

Foraging? The box that states "you have a chance at foraging a rare item" is not functional. It either needs to be fixed, or have that description removed.Foraged items, in general, do not offer any beneits that can match those of a novice chef's. I would assume that at higher levels of Ranger we could forage more foods, or have a chance to forage better foods, but this is not the case. We need to either have better foragable goods at Ranger or have more of the same goods foraged at one time. Also, the benefits of foraged foods do not reflect the stomach-filling stat. These items fill too much of our stomach to be of any use. We should be able to eat many items before our stomachs fill, but I have only got up to 3 before it filled, and this should not be the case since it is in no way a possibility to exploit. Are there any foragable items that regenerate instead of buff? I have been forced to drop Novice Medic because I don't have enough skill points to keep it, Master Ranger, and Master Teras Kasi, soI would like to think that they could prove a little more useful than they are now, even if you had to make them only edible by Rangers to prevent people from taking advantage of it. The durations are also in need of review.

With our creature to hit bonuses, we will be in demand for hunting groups. However, with the CU and changes to creature HAM and armor, we will not be able to stand our ground in a fight equal to our group's level if we do not have 3K health. That bonus to hit and damage will not last long.

These are my thoughts. Take them for what you will.

Rabideko