Celtic Heroes

Lol napol what lvl r u I'm 75 and I'm a dex ranger too u sound like me but I hit 250 and occasionally 366 so I'm rocking the dex I don't have a lick of strength too

Okay bub. Before this devolves into something bigger than it should lets take a look at my fighting style.

I don't even have a single point in bolas at the moment, because I tank through mobs, bosses, etc. I use my bow to pull and keep up a continuous stream of fire on the mob while I do whatever I need to do (heal/cast a skill). It is highly effective and if there are no tanks present for my clan I can tank a boss. I also do really good damage, so dps is not an issue. I consider running around trying to evade a mobs auto attacks when I am dex based and avoid almost all of the auto attacks anyway completely pointless.

After I hit around 120, I was originally going to be putting the occasional point in bolas, to bring it up mainly just for bossing (as it can help a lot sometimes). But with this new skill called sharpen I will be able to increase my damage by say 50 damage or so, which is just totally awesome and in addition it is a group cast, so I can cast it on more than just one person at a time, which will greatly increase just about everyone's dps if I am grouped with them. This damage could possibly let me get 400 plus damage hits on mobs my level, which I have seen up til now rarely, in addition to completely taking out all the pathetic 230 odd damage hit that I manage to somehow hit occasionally.

So instead of putting the occasional point in bolas, I will put the occasional point in sharpen. The benefits of sharpen sound like they will be something else that will be quite awesome. In addition I am a dex build, which means I will probably get even more of a bonus from sharpen than your average ranger.

So yeah I will be dumping bolas possibly permanently, although I will have to check out that new rooting skill...

So as you can see, my style of fighting actually benefits the most from sharpen, and not bolas. [/quote]
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Golums may change your opinion about not upgrading bolas at all.
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+1 @Napol you don't want 400 damage on yourself with Quake, do you? It casts every 10 seconds or so.. If ya dont up bolas now... Im afraid ya wont last

There are a Few new ranger skills and I figure I would give you guys a sneak peak at them although as with the rest ofthe information from beta this is still subject to change .

Sharpen weapons - a new group buff that adds pierce damage to all group members in range

Long shot - a new bow weapon skill that can only be used from a distance , when it hits the mob is rooted and it does damage .

Explosive arrow - another bow skill fires an explosive arrow that hits all enemies within it's range , aoe skill .

Are theses the only New Skills that they have? Also, Is Sharpen Weapons basically Poison Weapon?

sharpen wep is like a full group poison wep.

sharpen wep is like a full group poison wep.

I wouldnt say its like poison weap cause sharpen weaps is pierce dmg and can still be resisted.

sharpen wep is like a full group poison wep.

I wouldnt say its like poison weap cause sharpen weaps is pierce dmg and can still be resisted.

I agree , poison is a much better skill . It just sucks really bad that for ranger to be a good support class we require a Mage to enable that . Why should we need a 2nd support class to support our support class ?

yes poisen wep is poison dmg and sharpen is pierce dmg. i was just trying to explain the basics of what it was like. It is a grp dmg buff in much the same way that poison wep is a single player dmg buff.