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Ya the pet isnt perfect and we need some lovin when it comes to our different abilities and whatnot but i still prefer playing my ranger over the other classes i thought i might like.
p.s. i thought the age of conan ranger was pretty fun to play. Before they revamped it that is. Crossbow was yhe shizzle!
Sorry typing on phone at work outside in the freezing cold.
I love it when people say “you can just make more bullets in the wild!”
You need moulds (easy enough to carry around or even make in situ) the metal itself (heavy) and facilities to melt the metal down, a smelter.
The fun bit is the smelter. Melting iron down requires ~ 1.4k degrees Celsius. For context, water freezes at 0 and boils at 100.
So if you’re going to melt iron you need a good fuel that produces heat. That essentially means, certainly in Tyria, coal or charcoal. The latter is more likely, it’s lighter and can be made in the field; it’s effectively wood with all the impurities burn away, leaving you with the carbon.
Charcoal requires it’s own furnace which takes at least a day to make and own set of skills as well. If you get it wrong, the charcoal… isn’t. Alternatively, you actually burn it, leaving ash.
Assuming you have the fuel, the forge has to be built (again, requiring a separate set of skills) the best part of a morning/afternoon to get up to heat, assuming you have the fuel and bellows to heat it up enough in the first place, which you’ll have to pump all the time unless you hitch it up to a machine powered by something like the flow of a river.Alternatively you can run around with a bow with their larger, easier to replace arrows.
The arrowsheads are larger, can be sharped and refixed onto the shaft If things get really desperate you can always make the shaft of the arrow really sharp and go without a metal arrowhead at all.
The shafts are wood, and if you’re in the wilderness, where there will be trees. It’s simply a matter of finding the right tree, easy enough when you know what you’re looking for.
Feathers are needed for fletching, which is effectively any large bird. Even if you can’t find any, if you have some packed in advance it won’t really mean much (light as a feather?)
This is all using skills your predecessors have perfected over hundreds of years.
Lead. Not iron or steel. Lead slugs…. lead melts at about the third of the temperature your of basic/average sized camp fire. And you wont need t lug around massive amounts of lead to make a hell of alot of slugs.
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Simple scrap metal can be melted and formed into musket balls out in the field (the patriot) and since the tech is already present why wouldnt a ranger use a rifle or supressed rifle?
I doublt any engineer would bother with downgrading weapons to use a bow when they can blow **** up.
Recently got into running dungeons and with all the aoe/ground targeted damage from bosses the pet is 100% useless.
I dont post much if at all in forums and im one of those guys that can adapt his game to be effective through class bugs/imbalance but this is really bad.
From what ive read the pet is the core mechanic and class defining feature of the ranger and it is not working in its current state.
I think giving playes the option to create a petless build if they choose would be a great idea.
In GW1 did you have the option of going without a pet?
sorry for bringing this up again if it was already covered in another post.
Hi, I was hoping to get an answer from the Arenanet crew to this question….
Are crossbows a possibility in this game for a ranger weapon?
I was also wondering if they are part of the world/lore or would they be something new?
p.s. would also like to use a rifle with some cool skills …http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz3zHUsQWKE
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