Newsfiend
01-14-2010, 09:21 AM
Grrr_wolf wrote:
Dev-Ngreth wrote:
Buleril wrote:
As a long time though no where near end game ranger, I cant for the life of me think of anything I have to spend money on for dps...what am I missing?
I guess I am mistaken. I thought there were a bunch of ranger spells that consume crafted arrows. And Fleeting Quiver does not preserve the arrows used in spells. These arrows are not free. They may not take any farming, but then neither does the BASELINE rogue DPS poison. It is just money and crafting... like rogue baseline poisons.
If those arrows have been removed, then I am mistaken.
You're not mistaken Ngreth, there are some ranger spells that use crafted arrows. However, the spells are restricted to humanoids and animals only, and they are a pretty inefficient use of mana. On top of that, they are not affected by the ranger's archery mods/AAs, so it's just straight spell damage. If they were modified so that we could use them on all mobs, and the mana cost was reduced (or if mods/AAs worked with them), then we would use them as part of a nuke rotation. Unfortunately, a lot of rangers didn't even bother buying these spells because they are so limited.
Yeah I did not know they were not used, just knew that they existed (thanks, and for the other few who clarified it for me)
More... (http://forums.station.sony.com/eq/posts/list.m?topic_id=160118&post_id=2379884#2379884)
Dev-Ngreth wrote:
Buleril wrote:
As a long time though no where near end game ranger, I cant for the life of me think of anything I have to spend money on for dps...what am I missing?
I guess I am mistaken. I thought there were a bunch of ranger spells that consume crafted arrows. And Fleeting Quiver does not preserve the arrows used in spells. These arrows are not free. They may not take any farming, but then neither does the BASELINE rogue DPS poison. It is just money and crafting... like rogue baseline poisons.
If those arrows have been removed, then I am mistaken.
You're not mistaken Ngreth, there are some ranger spells that use crafted arrows. However, the spells are restricted to humanoids and animals only, and they are a pretty inefficient use of mana. On top of that, they are not affected by the ranger's archery mods/AAs, so it's just straight spell damage. If they were modified so that we could use them on all mobs, and the mana cost was reduced (or if mods/AAs worked with them), then we would use them as part of a nuke rotation. Unfortunately, a lot of rangers didn't even bother buying these spells because they are so limited.
Yeah I did not know they were not used, just knew that they existed (thanks, and for the other few who clarified it for me)
More... (http://forums.station.sony.com/eq/posts/list.m?topic_id=160118&post_id=2379884#2379884)