Ranger Discussion Thread

[Valin]

Mail can't come to you on the field.

Yes it can. If you send it express.

[Noobta]

Mine are:
1: Brightwing Arrow, 2: Swift Shot, 3: Entangling, 4: Stunning Shot, 5: Silence Arrow
G: Aerial Wild Shot, E: Fleshcutter, V: Arrow Storm
Alt+2: Poison Arrow
Shift+V: Focused Evasion, Shift+2: Explosive Arrow, Shift+E: Sleep Arrow, Shift+5: Tactical Retreat, Shift+C: Devotion, Shift+4: Shock Arrow

F1: Bow of Blessing F2: Bestial Fury F3: Focused Shots

C: Auto Attack/loot, Shift+middle mouse: Toggle wings, Mouse4: Autorun.

Works well for me, tried to match stuff up with similar abilities from my hunter

[Gryffes]

Best to carry a spare stack of arrows in your bag.[ Mail can't come to you on the field.

Yes you can get mail in the field...express mail.. you get an icon on your minimap and you summon a shugo who delivers you the mail. Even in instances.

That's kind of the point of doing it

( And I do keep 10k in my bags as well ).

[Valin]

Mine are:

F1: Bow of Blessing F2: Bestial Fury F3: Focused Shots

That's a really good idea. I'm going to steal those keybinds from you if you don't mind >_>. What do you plan on binding your Advance Stigma shots to? Thanks for the input, I didn't even think about using the F keys lol.

[Noobta]

I had Speed of the wind on F2 before I got Explosive arrow. I'm not going down the full path, so the only stigmas I'm missing are Holy Arrow/Trap of slowing/Speed of the wind. Most likely going to use:
F4: Speed
Shift+1: Holy Arrow
Shift+R: Trap of Slowing

[Ququroon]

Question!

I'm fairly certain that Holy Arrow and Brightwing share the same timer; something that would kill that skill for me. Anybody want to confirm or deny this?

[Valin]

I had Speed of the wind on F2 before I got Explosive arrow. I'm not going down the full path, so the only stigmas I'm missing are Holy Arrow/Trap of slowing/Speed of the wind. Most likely going to use:
F4: Speed
Shift+1: Holy Arrow
Shift+R: Trap of Slowing

Ah, so you're skipping out on Lethal or Heart Shot? It makes sense, since both routes make you take a really useless stigma. I'll probably end up going the Heart Shot route, but it's a tough decision cause the burst from the Lethal route sounds so fun. If you don't mind, could you link your stigma build?

Question!

I'm fairly certain that Holy Arrow and Brightwing share the same timer; something that would kill that skill for me. Anybody want to confirm or deny this?

You are correct! Holy Arrow is an "upgrade" to Brightwing at the cost of a stigma slot.

[Vail]

Ah, so you're skipping out on Lethal or Heart Shot? It makes sense, since both routes make you take a really useless stigma. I'll probably end up going the Heart Shot route, but it's a tough decision cause the burst from the Lethal route sounds so fun. If you don't mind, could you link your stigma build?

he's more then likely trying to use the same build as all the koreans who still stick with ranger use:
Basic Stigma
-----------------
Bow of Blessing
Focused Shots
Bestial Fury
Trap of Slowing
Silence Arrow
(Filler basic Stigma, most often Sleep Arrow, but there are some variations)

advanced stigma
-------------------
Speed of the Wind
Explosion Arrow

[Fallyn]

so at 20 should i use Deluge or Sleep Arrow?

[Valin]

so at 20 should i use Deluge or Sleep Arrow?

Both. You can equip two at 20

[Fallyn]

Both. You can equip two at 20

lol durr. brainfart, etc.

[Lebzile]

don't bother socketing deluge waste of stigma shards

[Fallyn]

don't bother socketing deluge waste of stigma shards

just wait it out until silence arrow?

[Lebzile]

Yea basically. Even though Deluge is extra damage, it's a waste of shards and you're better off without it.

Also, am I the only one who thinks Bow of Blessing does null for skills or do I just have bad luck? Lol

[Kerberoz]

Also, am I the only one who thinks Bow of Blessing does null for skills or do I just have bad luck? Lol

I honestly can't see any significant difference with it. Going to trash it as soon as I hit 45 and finish the adv stigma quest.

[Chun Liroy]

If that's the case, wouldn't that make this:
Aion Stigma Planner - aiondatabase.com

Better than Aion Stigma Planner - aiondatabase.com

Hmmmm???

[Vail]

don't bother socketing deluge waste of stigma shards

people talk so much shit about arrow deluge but they don't realize it's potential uses. For damage yeah it's fairly awful no lies there.

You can target yourself or friendly players and use arrow deluge and any enemies in a 5m radius will be hit, which makes it great for hitting enemies in "laggy" sieges when you can just target your front line plate wearers drop a deluge then return to tab-targeting

Arrow Deluge is also the only counter you have to people going in stealth before 41 and is more usable against hide II since all seeing eye's bullshit 10min timer.

if you see people going into hide you can watch their image fade while they still move, simply target yourself and jumpshot an arrow deluge on top of them, and good by hide.

I just recently removed deluge since I have trap of Slowing II (10m radius) and arrow storm if needed for those moments, but Arrow Deluge served me well.

[Valin]

Arrow Deluge is also the only counter you have to people going in stealth before 41 and is more usable against hide II since all seeing eye's bullshit 10min timer.

if you see people going into hide you can watch their image fade while they still move, simply target yourself and jumpshot an arrow deluge on top of them, and good by hide.

I just recently removed deluge since I have trap of Slowing II (10m radius) and arrow storm if needed for those moments, but Arrow Deluge served me well.

I realized that you could do this with Arrow Storm, too late by then. D:

Either way, I used Arrow Deluge as an extra attack in my rotation when I first got it. I don't feel it was a waste of Stigma Stones at all. If you choose to grind in the abyss starting 25 you receive stigma shards from the majority of mobs you kill. I did that and I never ran into any Stigma shortages and even now I have plenty to spare.

[Kerberoz]

True, but at 20 you might as well just wait for silence arrow at 25. Not like you're going to run into a lot of invis enemies pre-abyss, or be able to survive if you do.

[Ququroon]

I'd say to pick it up. Sure, it isn't that great, but it works as a little more damage for 5 levels.

Unless you're a grind machine.