>>Kalika really should consult with me, before letting every Tom, Dick, and Nancy join the guild.

Im gonna usually just keep my mouth shut these days but every once in a while somebody says something that gets me all twisted up - are you seriously this high on yourself or did I miss something...?

Greatness isn't expressed, its demonstrated.



"None of you seem to understand. I'm not locked in here with you, you're locked in here with me!" - Rorschach

>They didn't soften up the guild - the softened up the GAME. Just because people didn't endure the ridiculous hardship that we did doesn't make them 'unworthy' to the guild - just to you.

Even more so it was a reflection of the reality that ranger abilities would never be allowed to be OP enough to warrant the completely unwarranted difficulty of the requirements.

Ranger requirements are now on par with other guilds and individual rangers can be as hardcore as they want.

-pete

I used to play on the AOL client, your fancy macros make you weak. Carpal what? Back then we afk'd with windows recorder. Real gangsters, stormfront, etc.

Also, I think you're ridiculous. Nothing is hard, this is a game. Things are more or less tedious.

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>describe boar
It's a boar. It doesn't like you.

The funny thing is that what Falker got his panties in a wad over was the fact that I used a CJ that another ranger gave me to help complete the Beseech the Wind to Preserve quest because I was lacking.... MECHANICAL LORE!!! oh the shame! How will I ever be a good ranger without Mechanical Lore that rivals my Skinning?

Anyway, his high and mightyness is lost on me. My current Ranger was started back on AOL on a 14.4 kbps modem within 6 months of the game releasing from beta. I know hard-mode. I played before DIR and a bunch of things were added to make the game "easy-mode". My original guide was Wilderness Ways, and I still have a copy of Wilderness Ways II. I was playing when companions and fletching were released. So, really, I'm not interested in his BS anyway.

In all actuality, I was probably a Ranger before him, so, if anything, Kalika should have asked ME if she should let some jerk into the guild. However, I'd probably gone off to college and quit playing for a few years by then.

All I'm trying to do at this point is to catch up some after not playing more than a month here and there in the last 13 years. Just doing what I can to actually see the sights and experience more of what DR has to offer this time around.

Lol, he "cheated" on the quest that gives you the ability to extend the shelf life of meat. Why are we even talking about this.

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>describe boar
It's a boar. It doesn't like you.

<<he "cheated" on the quest that gives you the ability to extend the shelf life of meat.

That was really the smallest point of the whole thing. I said it should be fixed because it was not what was intended. Him 'cheating' on the quest is about as important as someone using the 30 lives UUDDLRLR code on Contra. (Its not) However, one is intended while the other is not. And I will always ridicule anyone that wants to brag or make a big deal about accomplishing something when they didnt really earn it, no matter how silly/dumb the prize is.

<<So far what I got from all that is how proud you are of how much time you've spent playing DR - and that somehow that makes you better than others.

Missed the point entirely. Did you not finish college? I thought reading comprehension was a required skill in English classes. Or did you have someone else take the classes for you? RL CJs FTW, lol.

<<Again, I don't really care.

And yet, you cared enough to make so many posts on the topic.

<<If you want to compare "shoe sizes" or greatness in a game, or whatever, do it with someone else.

You were the one putting yourself out there buddy. I just stepped on you, is all. The dominate animal does that when smaller weaker animals are in his territory.

<<DR is just one game I've played and (besides some frustrations) enjoy.

See, still trying to assert yourself. Subtle, granted, but no one cares how many games you've played.

<< I don't base my life on it. You apparently do.

Lol. Yes, I obviously base my life around DR. You sure have me pegged. I bet you know where I live too.

Falker

<<I post because you're fun to poke.

Lol. You act like you knew me well enough when you started posting, that I'd respond. Nice back peddle. You are basically showing the first signs of intelligence, learning when to shut up, as to avoid putting your foot in your mouth. Good job.

<<Keep it coming! / popcorn

WTTI

Falker

>>Lol, he "cheated" on the quest that gives you the ability to extend the shelf life of meat. Why are we even talking about this.

This is more posts in a row than this folder has seen in years - kudos for kicking it up if nothing else.

CJ's aren't cheating - theyre PART OF THE GAME. The dude was smart enough to complete a quest with LESS THAN THE RANK REQUIREMENTS - that's ingenuity and dash and hats off for being SMART enough to pull it off.

>>I've always been an ass. This is nothing new. You are making an ass out of yourself by forgetting that.

Touche.

"None of you seem to understand. I'm not locked in here with you, you're locked in here with me!" - Rorschach

<<CJ's aren't cheating - theyre PART OF THE GAME.

No kidding. They should totally be used for circling too. You are missing the point.

<<The dude was smart enough to complete a quest with LESS THAN THE RANK REQUIREMENTS

Smart... Lol. Like I said SOFT. It's now thought to be better for a ranger to have someone build well traveled road for them, rather than blazing a trail themself. Why even have rank requirements at all?

<<that's ingenuity and dash and hats off for being SMART enough to pull it off.

You arent being serious, are you? Someone else gets him the CJs, tells him to use them, and he is smart and ingenuous? PLEASE, lets just call an apple an apple. This is on par with giving someone props for finding the thief guild, when someone else told them how to do it.

Hey I completed all the starcraft 2 challenges, but I used online guides to figure them out. Can you tell me how smart and ingenuous I am? I need the ego boost.

Falker

You have to be ego-maniacal to chat causally with guildleaders? And I do put softies in their place with my awesomeness. I've been doing that since before I was a 'big' ranger. Not to take away from the ego-maniacal-ness of myself. I've always liked that word. It was normally always associated with evil geniuses, much like myself. That and the fact that it is fun to say. Btw, I dont have any shortcomings, except for my inability to beat around the bush. You should probably work on knowing when someone is serious. Being that Kalika is an NPC, (-ACRONYM: non-played-character) I was hardly serious about her consulting me about every moron that knows how to type join twice.

Falker

>>Being that Kalika is an NPC, (-ACRONYM: non-played-character)

That's not true, she and I had a nice chat last year. Sure it's been a year, but hey she was played then. More recently than most NPCs.

In response to the actual topic, I agree Rangers are soft and most are useless. I still say our reqs need to be bumped up and I don't mean on the non-combat side.


I will continue to get blunter on this topic until people get the message or my posts contain enough profanity to be removed. - Armifer

Oh, good grief Falker. Let it be. I ran into this younger ranger having trouble when I knew the ranger bonus had screwed up a whole lot of things. Finding hidden things in towns specifically, and a big chunk of our beseeches. So I waited around with him to find out what was happening and what he was seeing.

Even after seeing what was happening to him I was still convinced it was his ranger bonus, despite the fact GM's were saying the bonus problem in the beseeches were fixed, but wanted to confirm it. So I thought the best way was to have him work his mech lore more, and his arcana skill more, so he could use a CJ and then use the mech lore CJ to confirm whether or not it was still a bonus problem or there was a Mech lore requirement, which by the way no one seemed to know about. Too my knowledge he is the first ranger to run into it, though others might have but never posted here on the boards to let folks know. I figured he would work that mech lore up and in fact when he was in there with me he only had 60 ranks in it. By the time he tried again he had 70, a day later. Seems to me he worked it pretty good. Wish I could get 10 ranks in Mech lore in a day but alas my mech lore is too high for that kind of gain anymore.

Bottom line he proved it was a mech lore requirement and the bonus was not still messed up as I suspected for that beseech. So for one, I'm very happy you can use a CJ to do these quests. It provides an option to see what is going on when you run into things like happened due to the bonus change. That is also something that will come up when a person tries to catch their first horse. Only in that case it will be a stat problem cuz they will end up tangling themselves up in their own rope on every throw of the rope. When that happens remember its a stat problem not a skill problem.

Which also reminds me. All of you who have all the beseeches, would you please go check each one of them and make sure they still work for you. I have my doubts all the bonus problems are still fixed and it would be very helpful to have some folks check it out. I'm still seeing some things in two beseeches that I don't remember happening the way they were working previously (course some say none of our beseeches actually work for anything but thats also another story). I dont have all of them myself. Mostly cuz I dont like going to the islands all that much but thats also another story.

Ranger Pfanston and his Soggy Doggy

>I think you have some crusading to do over on the Cleric boards ASAP. Sources say people have been using CJs to complete their quests for years.

Yeah, but those aren't Rangers. This guy is a Treveri reject.

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>describe boar
It's a boar. It doesn't like you.

This whole thread reminds me why ranger conflict folders are empty.


The Dragon priest hisses, "We'd have won, too, if it weren't for thossse meddling kidsss."
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"None of you seem to understand. I'm not locked in here with you, you're locked in here with me!" - Rorschach

<<Treveri was the guy that was absolutely obsessed with the idea that rangers should have it the hardest. To him, ranger were the marines while other guilds were like the national guard. Or something like that.

Jent really wasnt too much different than that (a mini-Trev, if you would). A huge majority of the stuff Jent got released were ideas that Trev started. I wouldnt be surprised if many of the difficulties that were part of the 'Jent' era were of Trev's philosophy and originally his ideas in part.

Falker

That's more like it. We can always depend on the Falk to make a conflict out of nothing.

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Individuals, families, countries, continents are destroyed at the heavy hand of Vinjince.

-GM Abasha

Actually, I just said that I was glad other rangers are helpful instead of whining about how things aren't what they remember them as. You're the one that got up in arms because you have a fragile egos attached to your in-game "accomplishements".

Someone else called you out for being a tool and that's where this thread came from.

You mean ran some mech lore script for an extra 2-3 days. Such a hard life!

Besides, I'm sure CJ's have always worked in these quests, so it's not like this is some recent change. Just because you weren't smart enough to think of a CJ, that doesn't mean others aren't. I'm just lucky that Pfanston is smarter than you and came up with that suggestion, allowing me to see if Mech Lore was actually the problem before I spent a week training it on a hunch alone.

Face it - you're just old and bitter.

>You should be ashamed Leithlen. Your ability to preserve meat so you can later feed it to your functionally-questionable companion really should be nerfed.

Cheating at RP is bad, mmmkay?

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>describe boar
It's a boar. It doesn't like you.