Scout Archive
Thread: ok...thoughts about bounty hunter and ranger, please read before you get out the flamethrowers :)
jassi007 wrote:
I'm fairly new to the game, like 2 weeks. I've made a solid group of friends, got invited to a player City, great group of folks, joined there PA, having a blast.
It seems to me a ranger is outclassed by a bounty hunter at his choosen profession, which is hunting! What ranger really gives you is some added bonus to harvest amount, which honestly doesn't concern me or alot of people it seems, and 2 abilities camo and tracking. Camo I've heard isn't really all that, and tracking is pretty much a non-skill considering all you have to do is scour a mission term for the thing you want to hunt and it gives you a wp to the creature!
Well, yes, if you just plan to hunt only what the mission terminals dole out, pretty much any advanced combat profession (or combination thereof) will be better than ranger, because ranger skills are not geared towards killing critters (well, we do get a to-hit bonus at master), but finding them (and avoiding getting eaten). When you take missions from the terminal, the finding of the critters part is done for you, so all that matters is combat ability. But, if you ever need to hunt critters that you can't get missions for (and when you get more experience in the game, you'll realize exactly how many creatures aren't listed on the mission terms), then ranger tracking can be really helpful -- that's assuming, of course, that the critters that you are looking for are actually spawning...
Iseult
Master Ranger / Mediocre Pistoleer
Bloodfin
I know I should post this somewhere else but what would some of you think if novice bh required ranger tracking 4 and trapping 4 and mbh box cost 0 skill points. Then PC/NPC traps could be added to ranger making both profs happy. Only thing is less of an incentive to master ranger as mando armor is in bh and u only get camps/camo+ tn.
And I posted in here as Brisc told me its a good group and im scared of the ranger community from being in the bloodfin forums and bh forums and jedi forums soo long...
Ade,
It's an interesting idea. It makes sense, actually - since most of the BHs end up with tracking anyway...
...and it might help to convince the Devs to let 'em use traps on NPCs, etc.
I'll talk to calc about that one.
B
DeltaXi65 wrote:
Ade,
It's an interesting idea. It makes sense, actually - since most of the BHs end up with tracking anyway...
...and it might help to convince the Devs to let 'em use traps on NPCs, etc.
I'll talk to calc about that one.
B
Leoj wrote:
i fear posting in the bh forum, however lifeisdeath i believe posted it. the thing is although that this would only be applicable IF bh was made High/Med this way it solves that 33 pts left over thing plus itsa good way to make money
It would give BH even bigger harvest mods as said, which means more competition. Rangers are already out-harvested by people that take scout and a combat class because most of their skill points are tied up in Scout and Ranger, neither of which provides any benefit in creature hunting. As it is, many would like BH to require a profession other than Scout as a pre-requisite.
(Don't let JB see this idea. He'd be frothing at the mouth and is more scary than any Bounty Hunter.
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