[Rikkitikkitavi]

Why would you bother meleeing at all without a Kraken Club? Snapshot merits and Velocity Shot make meleeing for TP an archaic tactic.

That's sorta what my post sais lol. I just included more mumbo jumbo.

[Lambtor]

generally it's a good idea to stand in melee range while you're shooting for TP. nobody relies exclusively on standard melee for TP as rng w/o a multi-hit weapon. if you stand at the edge of melee range while you're shooting you'll still get those few extra hits for TP while minimizing the impact on your ranged damage.

[Ratatapa]

Sorry i guess i wasn't precise in my questipn

Before Velocity shot i mean before lv 40-45 If i don't melee and just shoot is it a problem for the PT fonctionality?

simply cuz my Axes are underlevel, But i guess starting 30 i could DD when i get my Hunter's knife since dagger is capped

[Rikkitikkitavi]

Sorry i guess i wasn't precise in my questipn

Before Velocity shot i mean before lv 40-45 If i don't melee and just shoot is it a problem for the PT fonctionality?

simply cuz my Axes are underlevel, But i guess starting 30 i could DD when i get my Hunter's knife since dagger is capped

You should always be meleeing before you get VS, and even when you get it you can still melee.

Move to proper distance for WS though.

[Ratatapa]

so i heard the "sweetspot" is about 10' can anyone confirm this?

[Rikkitikkitavi]

so i heard the "sweetspot" is about 10' can anyone confirm this?

Depends on what you are using.

The chart is Here

10' is a well rounded spot for bow/xbow.

[Ratatapa]

I have Some questions i wanna ask about gear too

I am currently 51 but i think alot about 75 So i need some help. I plan to use RNG for ixion and other random End game events, It will not necessarly become my main.

So here goes

TP

Weapon : VulcanStaff or Francisca + trailer Kukri (until i get kriegsbeil)
RAnge : Vali's bow or Selene's Bow + Demon arrows/Obow + Darksteel bolts.
Head : Enkidu cap (will be long till i get The Quadav head)
Neck : Ranger's necklace (until i get PCA or Hope torque)
Earrings: Vision + Drone (i might get bushi earring, depends since SCH is main might get Abyssal) /Genin earring when i get gil.
Rings : Behemoth X2 until i get +1
Hands : Enkidu until i get Blood and/or Seiryu
Body : Mirke Racc +10 and snapshot
Back : Amemet +1
Belt : Buccaners until i get Scout
Legs: Paluwhan till AF2
Feet : Kinda stuck with Warboots +1 till af2 (could use advice here)


WS

Weapon + ammo same

Head : Wyvern/+1
Neck : Gorget
Earring Doesn't change from TP
Body : I am far far far inline for Osode so should i keep mirke or get another body?
Hands : RSE2 taru or Enkidu here but never know
Rings : Flame X2 (ruby for now till i get gil for flame)
Back : Amemet +1
Belt Buccaner until Relic Belt
Legs : once again : Paluwahn (need advice here if Af2 is good for WS or just TP)
Feet : Taru RSE2 feet



Thank you for any advice you can give me

[orions]

If you dont have "ranged weapon skill" merit, dont think to put all STR/ranged attack on WS set.

Depending on mob, i switch W.helm for O.hat and one or 2 STR ring for behe ring (i'm working on gorget so thats maybe why i miss to often full STR/RA gear ~).
In hands, seiryu/crimson are fine for WS.

For end game THF or NIN mob like Byakko, i put like nearly everything in ranged accuracy.
To be sure of what you need, the simple way is to test it !


PS: <3 Pot-Au-Feu food !

[1]

somebody already said it but it is something that needs to be reiterated time and time again.
The spike damage that you see in the screen shots comes from the support of the party not the ranger themselves. Three jobs that will give you consistent spike damage when combined in a party are:

Red Mage / Dark Knight / Bard /

RDM for Dia II/III
DRK for Absorb - VIT
BRD for Minuets III & IV.

2 jobs lower the mobs overall defense and VIT rating compared to your overall STR. The other pushes your attack threshold. It is true you can only get so much from stacking STR and ATTACK on your RNG. To get more once you reach that threshold is to have jobs in your party take away the stats that you need create the STR : VIT and ATTACK : DEFENSE ratios to achieve retarded spike damage.

As a side note closing a skill chain after the Drk absorb Vit lands usually one shots the mob.

Dragoons with Angon work too, and is great in G Colibiri camps.

If you could get a pt setup with just the five and a random 6th : Drk/Rdm/Brd/Drg/Rng/xxx : in Nyzul bird camp you will be a happy ranger especially if everyone is debuffing the mob and buffing each other.

*also in sky if your nation is in control RK+2 > Bucc's and Scout's belts.

[Minaras]

A question from another n00b Rng!
I'm currently exping rng,lvl 45 atm, and i can't find anything to wear for heads & feet but bounding boots & empress pin...
Is that right?
Also,i know that once ill reach lvl 55 i could wear jaridah stuff ,but feet and head don't look that great to me,im going to lose 6 agi and 6 dex...
So,until what lvl do i have to wear bounding and empress?
Ty

[Matsuo]

Your avatar looks Hume, so you may just be stuck with Bounding until 62 like I was. Yes, it sucks. >_< I didn't bother with Jaridah anything except legs, which have a nice +1.

For head, I personally recommend Sinister Mask. It's the easiest of the 3 NM's in the area by far, the trick is finding Mahisha up since he shares a spawn with that hooker, Eba. But I thoroughly enjoyed my mask while leveling.

[Minaras]

Question



This is my current gear.
Im thinking of switching to vulcan's staff and /sam once ill reach lvl 51,but that would mean "trashing" 22 r.accu.
Do you think that AF body, and 1 r.accu rings will be enough to replace the daggers?
ty

Ninja edit: oh,neck piece is ranger necklace.

[Spider-Dan]

/SAM is utterly worthless until 60 (Meditate) and not really a serious option until 70 (Seigan).

/NIN 24-74.

[Greeber]

/SAM is utterly worthless until 60 (Meditate) and not really a serious option until 70 (Seigan).

/NIN 24-74.

no way to put it better. also stick with daggers/franny/kriges till 70-75ish.

[Lambtor]

Question



This is my current gear.
Im thinking of switching to vulcan's staff and /sam once ill reach lvl 51,but that would mean "trashing" 22 r.accu.
Do you think that AF body, and 1 r.accu rings will be enough to replace the daggers?
ty

Ninja edit: oh,neck piece is ranger necklace.

short answer: no.

long answer: no, unless you're eating sushi.