Is this because so few choose to be rangers? Where's a crossbow-totin' gal to go?

I'm only level 9 right now so I don't have much to discuss, honestly. I'm just trying to save up for some basic skills and get some decent gear. :P

<---100 Ranger.

Sooo.... how bout them Rangers?

So, Mr. Ranger Master, what are your favorite skills? How do you play (do you tank the mobs or kite)? How do you feel about the power of the ranger compared with the other classes? Do you prefer faster or slower weapons? What's your date of birth? Grandmother's shoe size?

Inquiring rangers want to know!

My favorite skill is definitely Trigger Frenzy. I use it as soon as it refreshes. I later adopted a method of grinding (xp and loot) whereby I only fought while TF was active. It has a 220 second cool down which is roughly 4 minutes. Basically, I'd farm a dungeon until my cooldown was up and then refresh. Why? Simple...I killed faster that way. Other skills I like are Acidic Blight and Unnerving Shout used in conjunction. Gaseous Blast was also nice. Ice Bolt and Fear Shot are nice 'kiting' skills to have. Righteous Stomp is the get away 'free card.' My place style was pretty much kill it before it got close to you, so I dumped all points into agility except 15 (spent in my low levels on endurance). As far as gear is concerned, I made two sets, one of crit and the other of ranged attack speed. I currently run around with 37% increased ranged attack speed +55% increased ranged speed from TF. You can begin to understand why I never wanted to hunt thing w/o TF.

Eventually, I stopped kiting and just tanked everything. Given the right gear, you can survive being mob rushed. I quit using Stomp/Gaseous Blast in favor of Shout/Blight. Shout reduces attack speed and movement speed by 75%. Shout reduces defense by 70%. Together, it makes for quick killing.

Weapon speed? Fast...since all purple Xbows are currently fast. I do have a BFG and a Boomstick in my vault (slothful and grandma respectively).

DOB: I turned 22 the 18th of last month. Grandm'as shoe size? ...she and I don't get along.

Lol...thanks for the info. TF does sound awesome, I'll have to look into it when I can grab it.

I just started playing this weekend and got my ranger up to level 21. I like playing with friends online so I am making him more of a support character using skills like noxious blast, Ring of fire, basically anything that has an area of effect.

I currently have all my ranger skills maxed out for my level. But to keep things lively I took a couple of fighter and mage skills so I can tank a little bit with a different set of gear I keep in the bank.

Current Stats
HP 2036 MP 843
STR 76 AGI 126 END 68 INT 60
DMG 283 - 559 (Fast)
Attack 928
DEF 749

I posted this elsewhere...

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Just wondering how I "stack up" next to other characters...

Ranger
level 16

Health 3095
Mana 260

Str 14
Agi 126
End 113
Int 15

Dmg 167-329
Att 886
Def 409

Fire 6
Ice 20
Poison 7
Shadow 30
Divine 20

So far I have some decent equipment, some purples and took a mix of Ranger special attacks, the fighter damage reflect and the AOE attacks from all 3 classes...

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I feel I'm doing pretty well but just heard the reset is not coming until March/April so I might wipe and restart. Will suck to lose my equipment and cash but I took a lot of different skills I'd rather dump at this point and get more focused. With what I know now I could level up faster anyway (especially with the tank method described above).

I was tempted to go fighter instead, the number of times I die when mobbed is frustrating but everyone is saying good things about Ranger...

The devs have said the only wipe will be a skill wipe (with gold to compensate you), so you're in luck.

I'm using "Tachan's Tanking" right now. Just hit 19 and my buffed stats are str 5 agi 140 end 130 int 16...

Maybe I should stop raising agility for a bit and put some to end? I have only raised agility (100 base) and everything else is from items.

How high do I need agility to be?

Agility will always equal damage for a ranger. You can get endurance from gear. YMMV.