Recurve Bow  

OK.. I gotta ask.... Ive read a couple posts now about people being able to easily kill yellows, and that blue's don't even get to them. Really ? I must be doing something wrong, cause with the best arrows money can buy, I can get a blue to about 1/2 life by the time it gets to me, and a yellow can ussualy kill me, though its close. Im at 23 ranger, and have always kept my bow at max. I started with STR=50, DEX=90, QUI=90. I don't want to be a melee ranger though, so Ive left my piercing at 8. Parthfinding=18 and I am buffed when fighting. Bow and Dagger are both orange. Ive tried with yellow and blue, and nothing seems to make a difference.

What am I donig wrong ?

On the subject of the Recurve Ability I think that the listed skill level/crit shot combination is incorrect. At level 6 I had a SKILL LEVEL of 6 in Recurve and only had Crit Shot I.

When I leveled to level 7 and raised my recruve skill to 7 I received Crit Shot II.

So is there something that I am missing or is there a better, more correct list of the
Skil Level at which you get the Crit Shots?

Montolio
"Follow your heart and your arrow will be swift and true."

Am currently a level 11 Ranger. Using Elm recurve (store bought), and medium dmg xlong range arrows with normal accuracy. I crit for around 70 on yellow mobs. That just using crit shot 1 because I havent raised archery to level 6 yet. I think it is best to balance out melee skill and archery for soloing though. I had a yellow con Prunar almost dead by the time he got to melee range earlier today, then all it took was one blinding rain to kill em. But that was after 3 normal bow shots post crit doing about 30 each. Well anyway enough babbling from me :)

I am a lvl 18 ranger and i max bow every lvl, this is what i have found so far.

3 critical shot 1
6 critical shot 2
9 critical shot 3
12 critical shot 4
15 critical shot 5
18 critical shot 6

so how many progressions of critical hits are there?? Ive seen reference to CH V. Is that the last one?

simle as that, duel weild or a sheild?

sheildz save ur butt soloing, i heard duel is alot better for group...is it worth pumping celtic duel when u have already put some into peirce? justa few questionz...

Bluntman da lvl 14 guild pothead
of da muffin men
Galahad

I got a lvl 5 Lurk ranger with 87 dex, 85 quick, 55 con, I have crit shot 1, I use the training bow and only medium dmg low range arrows, I crit blue cons for 40 dmg, green cons for over 50. Hehe whats great is I am only lvl 5 =D. I can kill green cons with one crit and one regular shot lol. I can leave a blue con with 20 percent life left with one crit and a reg shot lol. Havent tried yellows yet.

Ok, guys. Hotkeys are easy. Its been said like eighteen times. Move on.

Provide new information. You aren't special or smart because you know what a hotkey is.

What kind of abilities in recurve bows am I looking at as I spec? At what point should I be bttw gunning it into maxing bows? Skill 9 Crit 3? Any sites with more specific information yet?

Thanks

Question, I am a lvl 7 ranger and I have a ******* sword and us a seletto in my left hand. Question is, should I just use a shield for now or am I actually duel wielding now? I heard that duel wielding is lvl 10 but I am wielding 2 weapons even now at lvl 7. Any suggestions on how to put points in. I am good at the bow, blades, and pathfinding. The rest of my skills are lower especially stealth.
Any suggestions?
Thanks

Whats the deal with getting Critical Shot I thru IV? Do you get it from points into Recurve bow, or just from leveling up???

Rangers don't get 2 handed weapons sparky. Only Hero's and Champions get to weild 2 handed weapons. Except maybe some casters with their big sticks. But the only 2 handed weapon rangers get to use is their bow.

Equipment is one key to ranger tactics. You do need good weapons and bows and long range arrows. At level 13, I just don't even melee blues. Three arrows and they die. Yellows get to me with so few hit points that two attacks dual-wielding quartz falcatas and they are dead at my feet, too. That's solo. With a healer behind me, an orange is nothing to fear. Fighting curmudgeons with a level 11 druid, we fought 2 blues and 2 yellows and handled them pretty easily. Rangers are major damage-dealers but you have to be smart enough to know how archery works. For those who haven't mastered it, USE HOTKEYS. Put a bow and your melee weapons on the hotkey pad, put critical shot and your weapon styles on the pad, and do this: Equip bow, target enemy, click critical shot, click your bow twice -- one click enables automatic release after the timer counts down, the second immediately draws another arrow after the shot -- now wait. After the timer counts down, you shoot and immediately reload. Click bow twice again, process repeats with a normal shot. Click bow twice again, process repeats. Continue doing this until target is in melee range. (If you use flight arrows and time your shot right, that's a minimum of 3 shots). For melee, hit hotkeys for your two weapons and your basic style. Keep meleeing until target is dead, then loot. It's that simple. You should be able to solo blues wiht ease and yellows with only slight difficulty. If yellows are killing you consistently, upgrade your equipment -- kill greens and blues until you can afford it. That got me from 1 to 12 in a week.

Faolan
Level 13 Ranger
Kay Server

Does anyone know when a Ranger gets Long Distant Shot or Volley of Arrows? Just wondering
GN