
Even then, with basic defensive AAs, I was a finger in the ***** and only was able to do so long enough for the clerics to camp or on rare occasion, for the real tank to be rezzed and rebuffed. Rangers are not tanks and doing so is situational.Įdit: I feel it bears mentioning that I have, in fact, tanked Raid targets in the 60's while doing Planar progression, but only in the situation where the tank went down. The fact is that if you can tank between 40-something and 50-someting (after defensive AA's), you're twinked beyond belief, and still dont do it that well. Yes, tanking with AA's is certainly viable as a Ranger with good gear, but I didn't want to complicate the issue for someoen new to the class.
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If your truely a noob to the game meaning you have no alts and platium to spend or gear i would drop it in wisdom at this point.Hit points mean nothing early in life but self mana heals and buffs you need wisdom maxed early in life.All other stats can easily be raised with gear alone and aa skills.If you have platium i did exactly what they say here get hit points but i bought weapons and all bazaar gear possible with hps on it+ temperance to power lvl myself.I was able to melee to lvl 49 with temperance,self thorn shields and pure hp gear i could careless about Dexerity cause you bow damage is feeble at these lvls.Now once i hit lvl 49 i started to buy gear with Dex,Mr,Cr,Fr,Dr,Pr gear.Now from lvl 49 with a good bow and good Dex+ dex buffs you will see you can now pretty good.Heres what i used to do to raise bow skills from lvl 20 to 49.I would find the a blue non killing mob and would just fire away till i ran out of arrows then zone.I had summon bracelet from ldon venture i bought for 5k.I would buy those green crystal from ldon camps and summon 20 at a time.I was able to summon 1,000 arrows at a time i had weightless bags paid 10k per bag.Now zone back and fire off 1,000 arrows at the same guy,rinse repeat till your bored of it.I had my bow skill maxed at 49 didnt take long.Now when im in groups i use pure melee because bow will not out due melee which no biggie.I will wait till tank gets mob down to 95% then jump in and melee for some reason my tweaked 40 percent haste ranger takes agrro if i dont and i dont use taunt or nukes ever.Now if the tank in group uses a 2hander weapon i will bow cause he aint going keep agrro for long with 40 haste ranger whacking away being a warrior class.I`ve seen shadowknights and Pallys hold agrros because they use spells keep on the hate list which makes sense.Anyways if you have hit point gear like me plus Temp it gave me 1400 to 1600 extra hps which is hugh indeed.īeing that a ranger is by no means a tank at later lvls i would advise dumbing all your points into wisdom and dex at the start.I say this now because of newbie hit point gear and temperance 800 cleric hit point buff at lvl 1 it sticks it might even be wise to load it in all dexerity.I loaded all mine in wisdom at lvl 1 only to realize if i could i would`ve dumped it into all dex or half in wisdom and dex for archery.I noticed when a shaman or chanter dex buffed me and hasted chanter spell i was getting incredible bow dps at lvl 51 compared to non dex and haste buffs.I dont care if a ranger has 500 hit points more or not we all know a walls of slaughter will eat us alive anyways.We are meant for or bow dps and staying clear of heavy hitters in my book.Only a high end guilded ranger no drop gear and all melee skills maxed and right no drop weapons we he only out dps a bow dps.I have seen maybe a handful of upper tweaked rangers anyways so until you can be truely tweaked stay with your bow aa ability`s first max them then work on melee ones after if that floats your halfling toes.We all know at lvl 59 when a ranger gets endless quiver and am 3 is when the goof times start to rock and roll anyways.
