ok so apes are starting to not teach me as well as they used to (read: I can with four of them, no spells up, and not get touched). I like a challenge, aka getting beat up. and I'm not sure where to move to. I prefer mainland hunting as i can get anywhere on the mainland in about 5-10 minutes (yay being a ranger) so... what's your thoughts?

~Purnay
"The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his."

You can move to hierophants in river haven but the puzzle is a pain in the ass especially if you don't have an empath inside with you. Or just bite the bullet and go to juveniles since they're a much better alternative. Though you're off the mainland since until not too recent (unless we're being fed more BS about mainland dillo level hunting actually happening) HLC have been quarantined to M'riss.

Ok, I found the maps of the black spire on elanthipedia's forhfedhar hunting guide. The priests in the spire that are upper ones are juggernauts and interssesors (ranik's map 142. I'm trying to find the guide that actually rates these. Best of luck to you and your hungry wolf.

Zinaca and her fully-grown raccoon, Shadow

I saw a post where whoever posted it said he was training in interssesors up to 1250 or so. That might be good for you to hunt. As for malchatas, when I was circle 40th or so, I was the recipient of the sand swarm knocking me down and stunned while the malchata casually ate me. But I think Purnay will do just fine in there. I haven't been back there since so take what I say with salt.

Zinaca and her fully-grown raccoon, Shadow

Oh thanks for the order of critters! I'm way below Purnay in skill so I can only guess.

Zinaca and her fully-grown raccoon, Shadow

eh I'm pretty much toughing it out in apes still, honestly they still lock all my combats, just a lot slower then they used to. i have a feeling that when 3.0 exp and 3.0 combat I won't be moving up critters. I used ranged and I'm pretty sure that A) I'm going to have to bring missile mastery way up as my combats are ahead of my circle (my sixth survival is whats slowing me down) and B) bows aren't going to be able to hit as well against critters. For example with defenses around the 600's my bow is at least 100 ranks behind. I have a feeling 3.0 is going to make me train my bow up to where my defenses are. Also I'm sure I'm going to be back training tactics and what not. also i have the min reqs on parry... I just hate to use it when a shield does the same thing and more (aka blocks melee AND missile ranged attacks, where parry only defends melee attacks) so I'm going to be bringing a whole lot of skills up once 3.0 rolls out so I won't be worried about moving up critters at that point. I figure by the time I DO have to move up critters, they'll have rolled out something on the mainland in theren like they've been hinting at. but what I want is something 600-800 range that's just like apes. I am one of those people who hates eeking out ranks to the very cap of a critter. I move to new critters once I have the min skills needed to a) kill one, and b) survive one for more then a minute :-)

~Purnay
"The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his."

I read some of the changes I.E. the masteries were being implemented to make back training LESS of a pain in the ass, so I don't know, hold out hope you may not be in such a bad situation post 3.0.

- Buuwl

When has any new implementation ever truly helped Rangers?

Arct

I posted hope, not great hope. More like very thin hope but hope none the less. I think the rangers guild should have 2 mottoes:

No ranger stands alone and

Suck it up and carry on

We always do.

Zinaca and her fully-grown raccoon, Shadow

>>Where does this No Ranger Stands Alone nonsense come from anyways?

I think Rangers were traditionally viewed as Elanthia's "special forces" so I've always chalked up the statement as a militaristic camaraderie phrase.

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>a militaristic camaraderie phrase.

Yeah, that.

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The Shard Sentinel nods to Alexii and says, "Yes, you may pass."
Alexii says, "Sucker!"

::rubs his temples::

reading this has giving me a headache. if you're a ranger please go to the cursings ranger guild, head up to the library in the tree. There's a book that has a story about a young ranger long ago who learned why our motto is.. No ranger stands alone.

Having said that, these days there are a few rangers out there I don't feel that way towards, ones I think give our guild a bad image. when i joined the guild there were some older rangers who really taught me how to BE a ranger. There were others who i just looked up to in awe, who I wouldn't think to approach, but when i was in need they just showed up and offered help, like it was nothing. No tips accepted, just help out another ranger when you can was all they asked of me. I try to do the same for young rangers in need of help when i see them. Heck i also remember the days when teefs and rangers had guild wars... i was REALLY young then. sometimes makes me wistful for the old days...


In my day we walked to school up hill, both ways, in the snow, barefoot, with pirates attacking non stop!

~Purnay
"The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his."

>Having said that, these days there are a few rangers out there I don't feel that way towards, ones I think give our guild a bad image. when i joined the guild there were some older rangers who really taught me how to BE a ranger.

Rose tinted lenses. Every guild has 'back when I joined we were real men and the women were men and the horses were women and we ate raw glass and walked uphill both ways to the tree and loved it' etc. etc. etc.

Times change. Reading this in the rangers forum is a little less tedious than reading it in the thief forums, but only because it doesn't crop up here every 3 months.

We have a cross section of good players, snerts, worthless human beings, and awesome players/people, same as ever. I don't see weapons grade stupid out of Rangers any more often than I see it out of thieves, WM, or Necros.

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>...There is a reason we all became rangers...

Best skill set placement in the game.

>Best skill set placement in the game.

not a good reason to become a ranger...

~Purnay
"The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his."

>not a good reason to become a ranger...

Why's that? If they do 3.0 right it'll be an even better reason once ranks actually matter.

Hell has frozen over...I agree with Purnay! I just don't understand those who play for the numbers and by the numbers only. Guess that's why I don't play WoW.

And oooo I got promoted to a geek-me who can't script a hello script.

Zinaca and her fully-grown raccoon, Shadow

i don't know if you've ever been arround me in game... but i'm generally not a talk about tea kinda person... I try to train hard so i can kick ass, admittedly I've had my ass kick by the arkarms enough. but i enjoy gett'n into the battle against them. I believe shooting people in the face is the epitome of good RP. but at the same time, someone who bought a char and runs arround killing people just because they can is dumb, someone who runs arround killing people with a good goal or objective that makes it so that many can be involved or NOT involved as they want, with a good story behind it is worth while. i'm pretty sure i rambled this entire post and have no idea if it makes any sense

also Zin the world will not end until I agree with rantjur on something

~Purnay
"The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his."

>Then I realized that our guild is like a rudderless ship. We haven't had a rudder in a long time.

Ya. Rangers totally suck. You should reroll. All of you.

I get tired of almost every ranger post being self pity parties.

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>>you should become a ranger because you have a love for the wilderness, because you want to explore, you want the comrade-re... be a ranger for the sake of being a ranger... not because oh hey in this game they're one of the best stealth classes... I honestly don't care if this makes me a geek/nerd (we all are, we play a text based game) but seriously becoming a ranger because of the "best skill set in the current form of the game" takes away from what it means to BE a ranger.

Or because they have the best skillset in the game.