Well, ever since our game of "We'll pay you if you can survive the escalating Fury of Elanthia's rangers," the dominance of rangers has reigned supreme and unchallenged. After a little while, though, the rangers got bored and retreated to their typical activities of hunting, trapping, and ignoring everything on two legs.

In other words, there haven't been any mechanical or professional updates for rangers since you left that I can think of. Wehnimer's Landing with Kenstrom as the new guru has been hopping, though, and you're back in the middle of a storyline. You also missed Droughtman's Maze, which released a ton of neat items back into the game. EG's coming up soon for more festival fun, though, and Frontier Days starts right about now.

Welcome back.

~ Nuadjha, the Briar Fox

You inhale deeply upon your pipe, puckering your lips as you send out three rings of smoke before you, then puff out a small vine of smoke that darts right through all three which causes them to disperse in a hazy shroud!

We've had pretty much 0 dev. Our old guy Mestys was promoted and he's filling the role Warden used to fill. This hasn't resulted in a boon of ranger haste spell or even an improvement to 650. Animal companion attack speed was supposedly increased but no one can tell how. Despite our class not getting much dev I'm pretty happy overall with the level of in-game dev.

As far as ranger trends: even more rangers are going to archery, Nuadjha wrote a great archery guide for archery. Pretty much the standard advice now for new rangers is to get a claidhmore for the first 30 days then switch to archery. Post-cap most rangers are going to a much heavier spell build based on the success Droit has had with 202 spell ranks.

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Drew/Chiv

Proud inventor of the Droit ballista and the Droitapult.

Invasion canary in the coal mine.

Wait til you see what I have planned to release at EG.


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GemStone IV will be up shortly!
Sorry guys, my bad :(

Always good to see an old school ranger return. Last I saw Sepher, he led a massive group into one of the first warcamps during the GoS release and let the alarm sound before hiding, disbanding the group, and leaving us in chaos.

Good times. :)

Droit

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Speaking to you, the ghostly voice of Kaedra asks, "Have I ever told you, I think you're crazy?"
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The ghostly voice of Kaedra says, "That was an insane rescue."

Well you're awful at your part then.

Wait, maybe it wasn't Missoni. Found a partial log on the PC. I think there's a full one somewhere. I'll see what I can dig up.

Droit

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Speaking to you, the ghostly voice of Kaedra asks, "Have I ever told you, I think you're crazy?"
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The ghostly voice of Kaedra says, "That was an insane rescue."

>Wait, maybe it wasn't Missoni. Found a partial log on the PC. I think there's a full one somewhere. I'll see what I can dig up.
Droit


I survived.

-farmer

>>- Odysia

So, you back playing again or just lurking? And I don't think anything ranger specific was released at EG.

Hi, Ody!

While I didn't go to EG, I did dig through the lists upon lists of stuff that is being sold there and, beyond a few neat trinkets and baubles, there is nothing spectacularly spectacular in my humble opinion. As for what rangerly things were sold, I think there are some special imbueable items (this is complete hearsay, I admit) that I did not make any effort to investigate.

Have someone buy you one of those cool hidey hair baubles.

~Brian, Sepher's player

>Details, if you would be so kind.--Brian

The imbue boxes are pretty damn neat. Basically, you imbue a stick, bark, or wiregrass, then put it into the box, shut it, rub it, and it changes the description of the wand, etc. So if you started off with "a cracked rod" and put it into the mistwood box sold off of the shelf, it turns into "a smooth mistwood rod" instead (or something like that). There is a different off the shelf variant for each type of imbued object, and each off the shelf box has a limited number of charges.

One merchant service offered once per EG per ranger was to change the box in its entirety (its description as well as the description of the final object) AND make it so that the box had permanent charges. I had one done for wands/rods, and if the service is done again, I'll likely try for bark amulets next.

The way I see this as being useful is to easily tell what spell is imbedded in to which wand or bracelet or whatever, since they will all have the same description from a series of available ones.

I may or may not be stocking up on lots of these boxes.

- Overlord EK

I just had a friend talk me into buying several of those boxes last night. A neat item and not bad for 22.5k each. There are five different boxes for each type and as stated a merchant came around and altered one box per ranger, I also heard these boxes have unlimited uses while the ones bought off the shelf only have 125 each.

Sepher is a goddamn pimp. Things are cool because he makes them so. Also, I don't always drink beer, but when I do, I prefer Dos Equis.

~Brian, Sepher's player