Increase Ranger Damage Output With Bow.

Lu with mirke and merits in snapshot your delay would be ??(someone figure this out) be close to an unmerited osode wearing, ebow user.

pfft no more /nin! rng/nin should all take a long walk off a short cliff and make sure to land face first on a sharp rock

but your dmg will still be crap and ebow is 490 no way in hell would merits and mirke bring it to anywhere close to the same delay a osode merit ebow user

If your a true endgame Ranger, you people saying /war are clueless. If anything /Sam. Ninja subjob is still the most used for Ranger. Of course it depends on the situation but if you go /war and even /sam in most cases, your going to die a lot. Unless you really suck. I use ninja subjob at 90% of LS events and can out parse any non-kclub DD easily.

i have yet to die on my RNG as /war because i know when and how to use my abilities to help out a meripo or something and in endgame i came close to outparse a apoc drk as rng/war with Culverin +1 and Cannon shells and heavy shell for WS when i had unlimited shot up

also maybe one reason you dont die is because you are using some enmity down gear XD

/War in merit is epic fail. Ranger will get hate on first attack unless tank leads with weapons skill. Even in Dynamis where you zerg, your going to die a lot with /war.

This debate always ends up pissing people off. I'm just suggesting to go /nin and cap the hell out STR in your WS macro along with Courel sub as food, and your parsing the same as /war and you'll die less overall.

QFT ive critical my 1st arrow for 440 and had hate till it was dead. With a shitty pld i dont know ill go with /nin. I'll go /war to merits with people I know
/sam is good for longer fights but worthless imo on merit birds. All this talk about rng makes me want to merit as rng....damn i miss those 3k WS.

Oh i never looked at it like this before. Well you've done it! I'm sold on /war.

Dark lord ????? do you mean dyn lord ??? if so 1500 is avg at best. I can easily pull 1.8k sometimes 2k+ if right songs and etc...but yeah any decent well geared rng can hit between 2-2.7k on dyn lord.

Lolwhat?

When to use a subjob from experience... I never use sam sub so I won't include where I would use it, actually I never found subing sam any better, yeah you get TP faster with meditate, but really does it really make a big difference.

Sky Farming - RNG/NIN
Sky Gods - RNG/WAR
Dynamis - Dynamis Cities (Jueno, Sandy, Windy, Bastok, Baucidine) RNG/WAR
(why because if you have a good a mount of number in your runs as far as members, regular mobs die pretty fast, and pld or some EPEEN DD will keep hate, and like a lot of others in this thread sad a good RNG knows when to weapon skill and not take hate and usually a last kill shot is best.

For Dynamis Xarcabard I prefer RNG/NIN why because those demons have high Def, and hit's very hard. A simple WS from a RNG will take hate easly and you'll want that extra shadows to keep you a live and give pld time to get hate back.

Zerging NM's - RNG/WAR self explanatory, you get full buffs and you want to kill the mob as fast as you can so you go all out DMG.

Limbus - RNG/NIN to stay a live.

Einherjar - RNG/WAR pretty easy the whole 30minutes is a ZERG. Just bring RR with you incase.

Merit PT - This is really up to you. If you see a good PT setup and what mobs your killing make an educated decision. I usually go RNG/NIN either way my WS still does a great deal of dmg, and with a rdm healer it really helps. But if you see the gears on the other members and they look solid as in they know what they're doing subbing WAR might be an option since that mob will die fast either way. For example if I see a Hagun/Usukane SAM's, or relic/skadi rangers hell yah I'll sub war to out damage them or try too LOL.. don't want to be doing 180dmg while the skadi/relic range doing 500 every random procs lol..

Hope this helps. This is by no means 100% correct by it's the way I play most of the time when I'm on ranger.

hmmm He sz he fights the dark lord, I think he means dynamis lord.

He sz he does 1500 sidewinders, I said that is avg.

I say my sidewinders do 1,800-2,000 in damage.(im decent but not well geared)

A well geared knowledgable ranger can do between 2,000-2,700 in damage with there sidewinders on the dynamis lord.

Is this easier for you to read LOLWHAT. sorry trying to type this and talk on the phone at the same time

So out of curiosity does souleater work with ranged attacks... and will it proc on all barrage hits?

Pre Velocity shot with Shigeto bow. 2.7k can be reached easily. I did have songs but I was going for consistency so I mixed in some Racc.

hmm more say a taru rng :P

My set Up (mainly Dyna so /Nin)
Main: Krieg+Fran, S-Bow, Deamons
Head: Wyvern Helm
Body: Mirke (RAtt+10 Snapshot+5)
Neck: Ranger's/Chivlrous (i find gaining +5Ratt is better than +5Racc from PCC)
Ears: Minuet/Velocity
Rings: Bethemoth x2
Hands: CFG
Waist: Scout's Belt
Legs: Scout's Braccae
Feet: Scout's Socks
Back: Amemet +1

I always use meat (Subs mainly, Hedgehog Pie if im feeling fruity)

I am just starting to get merits on Archery and Str so very few merits atm

Normal shots will do about 140-200 on normal mobs but for some reason i find Sidewinder having trouble hitting for anything over 1400, any ideas why this could be? (admitidly i rarely have a Brd in dyna pt lol)