rh0dAn

I don't know about the rest of you rangers, but I for one appreciate Stealthmode's effort for at least trying to get the idiot dev to change something. Some things in your message could've been left out though, but some I do agree on. A few examples:

Streamshot: Definitely needs some adjusting. I love the basic idea of it, but just needs either a boost in damage, or a very quicker cast+recast time of each shot with a shorter duration

Decapitate: I do think it's overpowered. If you go to eq2players and look on any server and see the highest melee attack, you see that assassins are always on top. Comparing that to our sniper arrow with our lesser damage and longer casting time on it is really unbalanced

Rare Ammo: Would be interesting, but I think it might make us overpowered. I personally achieved over 17k auto attacks after 3 weeks of getting my mythical. Wouldn't see a reason for it right now, but perhaps any situational types of arrows, or at least fix summon arrows to make it in line with crafted arrows, since the other scouts don't worry on ammo as much as we do.

Things that could have been left out:
Poisons: I think our poisons are fine the way it is.
Offense stances: I don't know exactly how bad the difference is, but I don't think it's anything to worry about
Racial Abilities: Not quite sure about it, but doubt anything is wrong with it

Things that could've been added:
A small request to at least balance the melee/ranged bonuses on the shard gear, to at least show that areilik cares about the rangers

AA lines: I'm personally not impressed, especially with the focus aim AA. Should request him to change it to +recast speed or something so we don't have to wait as long as how much more time we have it up. Would also be nice to see some changes to the other AA lines, which I don't want to go over right now.

Coverage: I can personally use this to get over 50k on sniper arrow, but I think it's a bit too much work to joust out and in to even cast it. Should request to remove the ranged restriction or to change it completely.


I rarely have any trouble pulling aggro as said from the OP, perhaps because the combination of blame arrow and the hawk (least the hawk has "some" use)
To be honest though, no matter what grieving nerf Aerilik decides to change to our class, we will still kick ass.

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icKx

Assassins are designed to be the highest damage combat art class in the game. Go figure that we have the highest damage combat art.

If you are going to make these kind of stupid comparisons then don't just single out Execute, lets complain about the relative merits of every single spell between the Predators until the devs just give up and merge them into one class.

Next: Kunark Blade vs. Jugular Slice, go!

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rh0dAn

I'm just agreeing with stealthmode in his post to areilik. So you think assassins having the ability to do twice the damage in 1/8th the time to cast execute than sniper arrow is fair, then please stop trolling ranger thread. The only possible reasoning for why assassins are meant to be the top melee class is because areilik made them so. I only said execute is because it's the first thing i noticed that was unbalanced between rangers and assassins, and which was stated in stealthmodes pm to areilik.

So much for being the gentleman in all this -.-

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Vocals

Don't see the point in ruffling feathers of devs. Classes go through cycles. T7 was our hayday. It will all come around again. If you're any good, no reason to complain. I would rather parse high because I was the shit then parse high because my class was over powered.

BTW, Vocals = Vayne if anyone remembers the name from EF. Figured I would change my flames name.

Pudaan

Idk there are a couple worthless spells to rangers but there is for every class, i'm actually pretty happy where we are at now.

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Listad

QFT

Rohoni

I'm pretty happy with rangers as well as a whole. My only competition is our assassin (and occasionally our brig when something lights a fire under his arse). I will say i wouldn't complain if they threw us a bone on Coverage.

Rohoni - warden
Esshines - ranger
Poncho - guardian

hiero

rangers have always been about the buffs and the gear, without both even the most skilled player in the world is gonna struggle.

It'll be nice to give us a tincy bit of util tho to give something back to the other classes. Personally id like to see a single target hate reducer cast onto a mage or healer class, (help us to keep IA so the illy dont get aggro on pull ) or maybe a single target ranged for a group member or even maybe a snap aggro ca that throws the hate back onto a tank, useful in a raid, long timer yada yada

Pudaan

Evasive maneuvers?

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Crychtonn - Bylar

/fixed


Anyone that's been around since the start knows DoF was the golden days. Ahh the good old days of being insanely overpowered