Crafts for Rangers

[Hereaux]

Re: Crafts for Rangers

I actually did at first after the change. Being RNG/WAR when I got the range and all down right I let go a Sidewinder of 1,500 damage on a mob we were fighting, never heard complaints after that. All I heard was 1 player make the comment "RNG got nerf'd? How did you get excluded."

what is the best range for optimal dmg?

[neighbortaru]

Re: Crafts for Rangers

cool... cause before i always just saw rng's in close hacking with daggers and shooting every now and then till they built up tp.

and those, my friend, were crappy rangers

[Macht]

Re: Crafts for Rangers

Don't know if you ever used your compass to range, but the mob you are fighting set in the middle of the radii of the compass. Adjust back and forward from there a little does appear to help accuracy (or for me at least it does).

[Malacite]

Re: Crafts for Rangers

Woodworking

- Shihei
- Arrows
- Bolts
- Lumber for said arrows & Bolts


Alchemy

- Meds
- Bullets
- Materials for Elemental Arrowheads


Goldsmithing

- Needed as a subskill to make bullets (25 for silvers)
- Bling (^^)


Blacksmithing

- Bolt Heads
- Certain Arrowheads


Bonecrafting

- Other Arrowheads
- Required as subskill for Kabura Arrows (I think)

[greydaze]

Re: Crafts for Rangers

Here is a good alternative craft for RNG: Cooking.

I make a LOT of gil at 80 cooking, and my wares always sell very fast. I make a stack of yellow curry when i need 1-2, and by the end of the day, I'm 100-200k richer. Plus, sushi. Since it's a consumables-only craft, your popular items sell very quickly (au laits, yag drinks, yellow curry, etc)

[Neomage]

Re: Crafts for Rangers

Woodworking is really nice, but due to recent patches you almost need to have Alchemy and Smithing, Goldsmithing and Bonecraft leveled to an extent to make it effective.

[Hilde]

Re: Crafts for Rangers

Well I have been leveling Woodworking for arrows. Not so bad really, I leveled Goldsmithing and will continue that so I can create elemental staves, picked up blacksmithing for iron arrowheads, since on Asura no one was selling those. Leveling woodworkign through arrows, was reletively cost effective though. Goldsmithing has become my gil/money pit.

[Avoklex]

Re: Crafts for Rangers

If you are a budding Ranger with no other jobs say above 60, I highly recomend you stay away from goldsmithing. To expensive to do, even after the inflated xmas we just had, still spendy.

[zagex]

Re: Crafts for Rangers

Depends on how far you plan to take goldsmithing... I took goldsmithing to 33 and I made profit on every stage of skillups I've done. Some stuff took a while to sell (thief's tools), but yeah. Ran out of fire crystals from levelling, so I took a break. Going for bonecraft now.

At low levels, seeing optimal skillups paths isn't that hard. You just have to be really smart about your money. I took a while to convince someone that making grass thread from lightning crystals -> moko grass was NOT worth the lightning crystal even if you farmed the crystal and harvested the grass. That person was not very smart about money. Even if I farm something, I still count that as a cost because I *could* have made xxx gil selling it on the AH.

Time is money too. If I spend xx hours farming a bunch of stuff, I *could* have been desynthing and synthing other profit stuff to make more money.