Ranger

About

• Genre: Fighter
• Races: Human, Elf, Dwarf, Halfling, Pixie, Half-Elf.
• HP Gain: 15 - 19 per level
  • Prestige: 16 - 21
• MN Gain: 2 - 7 per level
  • Prestige: 3 - 9

Stats

• Primary: Strength
• Secondary: Wisdom (Dexterity*)
• Deficient: Charisma

(*Ranger skill 'mercuria' raises max dex to 22, acting as an additional secondary stat when applied.)

Max Warrior Stats

CLASS	Str	Int	Wis	Dex	Con	Cha	Lck
Ranger	25	20	22	22	20	18	20

Note: Shown as if Rangers skill 'mercuria' is applied, granting dex max 22 (normally 20).

Fighting

• Weapons:
  • Talonous Arms - "Clawing"
  • Missile Weapons - (Bows)

Rangers get "Two-Handed" and "Dual Wield" weapon skills

• Tactics:
  • Gash
    • Your primary alpha attack. Costs Mana. Damage is based on Str+Wis. Requires a Talonous Arms weapon.
    • Causes mobs mobs to 'bleed' once they reach 50% health, doing additional damage per round.
    • Gash inflicts neither 'weapon type damage' (based on your weapon) nor 'magical damage' and therefore mobs do not have any immunity/resistance to it. It tends to hit things that are otherwise immune magic/non-magic weapons.
  • Two-Handed Weapons
    • Similar to Warriors, Rangers can wield the two-handed long sword "Nasr, Claymore of Sovereignty".
    • Nasr is a magic weapon that also casts a spell along with each melee hit, dealing high melee damage, affording the warrior time to focus on healing.
  • Missile Weapons
    • Rangers can use a bow to fire arrows at a mob from 1 or 2 rooms away (depending on bow). This can outright kill a specific subset of mobs, without any active combat at all. Limited application however.
  • Rescue
    • Similar to Warriors, Rangers can use the 'rescue' skill in combat, which makes the rescuer the tank (primary target of the mob). Two warriors rescuing each other can share tanking a difficult mob by simply healing to full, rescuing the other, and repeating back and forth. (Note that Rangers can also be used for this)

Skill & Gameplay

Combat Passives

Level	Skill Name	Adept	MinPos
15	rescue	95	fighting (berserk)
23	2nd Attack	95	fighting (berserk)
23	Parry	90	fighting (aggressive)
24	Dodge	85	fighting (aggressive)
30	3rd Attack	90	fighting (berserk)
30	Enhanced Damage	75	fighting (berserk)
32	Grip	75	fighting (berserk)
40	4th Attack	70	fighting (berserk)

Combat Actives

Level	Skill Name	Adept	MinPos
2	strike	95	fighting (aggressive)
3	kick	90	fighting (berserk)
12	swipe	80	fighting
15	cuff	95	fighting
20	elbow	80	fighting (aggressive)
20	punt	75	fighting
20	shoulder	80	fighting
23	disarm	90	fighting (aggressive)
30	roundhouse	65	fighting (aggressive)
42	punch	60	fighting (aggressive)
47	wasp talon	80	fighting (berserk)
49	optometrum	95	fighting
50	gash	95	fighting (berserk)

Utilities

Level	Skill Name	Adept	MinPos
5	fashion torch	95	resting
6	track	90	standing
8	collect tinder	70	standing
8	gather wood	70	standing
10	kindle fire	70	standing
11	scan	95	standing
14	aid	90	fighting (aggressive)
18	cure poison	85	fighting (defensive)
18	herbal infusion	85	standing
20	fletch	95	fighting (evasive)
20	snare	90	standing
21	refresh	60	fighting
24	identify	75	fighting (evasive)
32	create spring	90	fighting
35	continual light	90	fighting (evasive)
35	pick lock	95	standing
36	mend wounds	85	fighting
41	detrap	90	sitting
44	call familiar	75	standing
45	word of recall	90	resting
48	regeneration	80	fighting
50	locate object	90	fighting (evasive)

• Notes:
  • Herbal Infusion is a 35ish hp heal
  • Mend Wounds is a 23ish hp heal
  • Regeneration is a 13 round 7-8hp heal (90-100hp total), with a cooldown period before re-use.

Additional things that are either common to all classes, so not very interesting, or completely useless: cook, dig, climb, mount, swap, search, forage (find food), extract moisture (refill drinkcon)

Buffs & DeBuffs

Rangers get a small set of self-buffs and debuffs:

Buffs

Level	Skill Name	Affects	Adept	MinPos
16	Camoflage	Hide & Sneak	90	resting
18	Forest Prayer	-7 SaveVsRod, -7 SaveVsSpell, +7 HR	80	standing
29	Heighten Defense	-18 AC	85	fighting
30	Ursine Brawn	+1 Str, +1 DR	90	fighting (berserk)
31	Mercuria	Increase Max Dex to 22	95	fighting (evasive)
38	Feline Grace	+1 Dex	80	fighting (berserk)
39	Granite Skin	-33 AC	80	fighting (evasive)
43	Falcon Sight	Detect Hidden/Traps	90	standing
49	Optometrum	Cure Blind	95	fighting
50	Lucidity	Pass Door	80	fighting

• Notes:
  • Feline Grace will replace 'slink' if applied. This is a downgrade as slink is +2 Dex, Feline only +1. Feline is only useful if you do NOT have slink and cannot get it.
  • Ursine Brawn will replace "ogre might" if applied. This replaces ogre's +2 Str into Ursine's +1Str +1DR.
  • Forest Prayer will replace 'bless' if applied. This is an upgrade, and adds an additional -7 Save vs. Rod on top of the usual bless affects (-7 Sv Spell, +7 HR).

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DeBuffs

Level	Skill Name	Affects	Adept	MinPos
37	Impair Defense	+?? AC	80	fighting
40	Blindness	duh	65	fighting (berserk)
46	Woodland Harmony	Suscept Sleep	70	standing
48	Sleep	zzZzz	95	standing

• Notes:
  • Impair Defense is an AC debuff (+ AC) but I'm not sure how much

Equipment & Align

Ranger's 'gash' is based on Str+Wis, so dress to max those first and foremost. Then, typically dressed for high HP and high Mana. Usual suspects DR/AC/Luck after that.

• Devout: Easy to equip, the defacto standard alignment for Rangers.
• Neut: No real 'need' to be neut with a Ranger that I know of.
• Evil: More difficult to equip, but just as nice as devout if you can do it.

Equipment Info & Examples: Ranger EQ

Summary

Within the Fighter genre, Rangers function very similar to Warriors, and offer a bit more in terms of magical spells, buffs, and spelldowns. Overall, they kinda seem to just be warriors with 'more'. I am not exactly sure why someone would NEED a warrior over a ranger ever. Note that because of 'mercuria' Rangers can have 22 dex, exactly like warriors, and get their intrinsic 22 wis as well. So.... in my mind rangers > warriors, but maybe that's just me. You don't get 'stun' but otherwise, not much difference in terms of usage as a fighter genre character.

Rangers can tank as well as hit, and do just fine in both roles. Having rescue, they can rescue-tank just like warriors, and the fact that gash lands on almost everything is super useful. The prestige upgrade to Hunter shows a massive increase in Gash damage, plus gets some useful new skills. Overall, Rangers probably the most well-rounded Fighter genre character and are great for tanking, hitting, exploring, and get the missile-weapon gimmick which can drop a few mobs with very useful gear.

Full Skills List and other info: Rodpedia Page

Quests:

• Rangers can do the Danger in the Woods quest.
  • This yields the defacto ear equipment for Rangers, which is a staple for stock ranger gear. Fun quest.

Prestige

• Hunter:
  • Max Str raised to 26.
    • Max carry weight 1100.
    • Stronger 'Gash' (since it is Str+Wis based)
  • Gash is also faster, and less mana cost.
  • Can fletch arrows faster
  • New Skills:
    • Cascade: melee rounds hit EVERY mob in the fight. Nice for whacking lots of small stuff that gangs up on you.
    • Indomitable: immune to stun/bash
    • Pursue: Similar to hunt, auto-track-move-track-move... to mob.