Level 19 RNG, looking for equip help

[Ashtyr]

I'm level 19 RNG right now with the following equips:

Silence Dagger
Power Bow+1/Cross Bow+1
Iron Arrow/Acid Bolt
Scale mail set
2x Bone Ring+1

I want to know which equips I should go with until level 30, when I can wear all the Noct+1 stuff I bought and use Military Gun/Great Bow+1

[Caspian]

Main weapon really doesnt matter at this point, so whatever you want there.
Powerbow +1 is good till 30, and you can upgrade x-bow at 25 if I recall correctly.
Go with either fang or beetle arrows (depending on how much you wanna spend)
I just went with whatever had the most def until 24 when you get martial slacks, and nomad mantle.
Beetle rings +1 at 21.
I think that should cover it unless someone else knows of something I'm missing.

[Cri]

Archer knives archer knives

[Macht]

As far as arrows go:

Fang, Beetle, Silver, or Iron are fine

Those arrows have such a small difference in there DMG that as far as extra damage you actually do is 1s and 2s. The difference in arrows isn't really prominant till you can get Scorpion Arrows.

Then at that point getting either Scorpion, Ice, Fire, Thunder, and Bodkin Arrows are fairly equal with again a 2s to 5s difference in damage (At this point a different of 2 damage is almost unnoticed when you are doing an average of 110 damage).

Then the next leap goes from those 5 to Demon Arrows and a few others if I remember right been a while since I looked at all that. Will have to look at it again.

Guns I would say to not bother with until you get around the 40s and higher, instead use crossbows more. Guns damage is quite pathetic untill you can use normal bullets then they are a bit more decent and tied with bow and arrows. Once you can use Silver Bullets then a gun starts to become the most damaging weapon you can get, there are a few spots though were it will be weaker compaired to the absolute best bow but that only occurs at like 1 or 2 specific levels and then it catches up and passes it again.

[greysenn]

Fang, Beetle, Silver, or Iron are fine

Silver do noticeably more damage at the lvl you can get them, not to mention bow damage is starting to suck pretty hard at that point (25). If you can get hate using the others, cool, but I would save some high damage arrows for WS.

[Thegod]

the difference between fang and beetle isnt noticable? its 1s and 2s.....


please disregaurd this infor as it is grossly missleading.

fang arrows are the way to go fi you wanna do the most damage.

fang arrow- damage -15

beetle arrow- damage 12

thats not even 1s and 2s for dmg rating the actual hit points it takes off is much more noticable.

anyway on to gear, you can wear your lizard gear on body slot to 30 if you want, most rng i see do it.

you should get a beestinger dagger in your main slot, most use that till 209 then dual wield battle axes, or they just keep a beestinger till archer's,. either way it doesnt matter.

i would try out dual wielding battle axes, i dual wielded two +1s and was doing more meelee dmg then the drgs...lol

heh i was looking around and i just happen to have a pic of my rng at level 20+ dunno witch level exactly, but its not 24 or i would have wht pants on i.e. marshals


http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/4...016108WbsnDZrQ


^ my rng at im guessin 20 ...notice the dual battleaxes, you should use those, then you can meelee when ur getting too much hate

[imac2much]

Um, if you're fighting IT's in your xp pt, your damage output will be significantly higher dual wielding archer/hawker knives than battle axes. So what if your melee damage is higher? The archer/hawker wielding RNG will have a dramatically higher ranged damage output than you.

The whole concept of "meleeing if you get too much hate" is flawed. You're just saying to lower your damage. Knife wielders can do the same thing by not shooting.

[Thegod]

Originally posted by imac2much
Um, if you're fighting IT's in your xp pt, your damage output will be significantly higher dual wielding archer/hawker knives than battle axes. So what if your melee damage is higher? The archer/hawker wielding RNG will have a dramatically higher ranged damage output than you.

The whole concept of "meleeing if you get too much hate" is flawed. You're just saying to lower your damage. Knife wielders can do the same thing by not shooting.

he's level 19, untill archer's i dual wielded nattle axes, and switched to beestinger and a battle axe when i was having trouble hitting mandys (only at around level 25-27) that 1 agi didnt really help much, but i didnt meelee mandys at all with my rng, only crabs and pugs in qufim.


but i dont even think i hinted at using battle axes over archers or hawkers.

19-28 isnt much exp when you concider i have 15k tnl, but it is when you have to get gear for ur level 19 character and he cant well equip archers or hawkers anytime soon.

[Thegod]

Originally posted by imac2much
Um, if you're fighting IT's in your xp pt, your damage output will be significantly higher dual wielding archer/hawker knives than battle axes. So what if your melee damage is higher? The archer/hawker wielding RNG will have a dramatically higher ranged damage output than you.

The whole concept of "meleeing if you get too much hate" is flawed. You're just saying to lower your damage. Knife wielders can do the same thing by not shooting.

he's level 19, untill archer's i dual wielded nattle axes, and switched to beestinger and a battle axe when i was having trouble hitting mandys (only at around level 25-27) that 1 agi didnt really help much, but i didnt meelee mandys at all with my rng, only crabs and pugs in qufim.


but i dont even think i hinted at using battle axes over archers or hawkers.

19-28 isnt much exp when you concider i have 15k tnl, but it is when you have to get gear for ur level 19 character and he cant well equip archers or hawkers anytime soon.

anyway i forgot to mention all the other slots.

at 19 rng i had no back equip, a warrior's belt+1, lizard body piece, +1 rings and +1 attack earrings (the ones that lower your evasion, i know its beetle at 21, but i had the ones for level 16 i think it is, its been a while)

ummmm....i wore leaping boots till my rng was level 37 or so then switched to bastokian greeves because windy was in first (kept leaping of course.

ahhh... yeah thats about it, oooh i wore scentless armlets till level 37 too (this was before the update that patched in noct+1 gloves those are much much better use those when u hit 30.