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Mounted combat.

Why Fire Giant Rangers would be better than Stone Giant Rangers:

25 strength vs 24 strength

Fire weapon bonus (fire arrows if archer, fire throwable if tracker)

Ambush with dual fire weapons + fire arrows = major pain

Resistance to the staple invoker ability that prevents ambush

Ability to kick evil cleric ***, whereas a stone giant will get their butt handed to them

Let me tell you, I would kill for a Fire Giant Ranger Reaver.

It would be nice, like forestwalk, to have elven horses sneak on forest.

After all elves are the forest people.

So 2 ideas brainstormed.

  • Big bat (something) extremely over priced mount with 100% sneak.

  • Forest sneak for forestwalk races with sneak (and mounted combat).

Witch means elves and perhaps rangers.

Withc reminds me, elves are one of the best rangers races, i dont know why people do not use them more...

Tell that to Anduo.

25 strength vs 24 strength

-- a little good, but not great

Fire weapon bonus (fire arrows if archer, fire throwable if tracker)

--fires don't get bonus from fire fired weapons..or from material/throw I'm guessing

Ambush with dual fire weapons + fire arrows = major pain

With what? Fiery daggers?

Resistance to the staple invoker ability that prevents ambush

Not a huge deal..invokers have ice storm

Ability to kick evil cleric ***, whereas a stone giant will get their butt handed to them

Unless they are fire giants...

Firebrand spear?

Hah. I hate to break it to you, but fiery daggers CERTAINLY are not the only fire weapon out there that a ranger could wield. I can think of a very strong one from a quest race area, a decent axe, a decent spear...

Resistance to the staple invoker ability that prevents ambush

I'm pretty sure that, even though a FG won't be hurt by it, he still would be drawn out of camouflage and into combat when running into an invoker's firestorm.

Ability to kick evil cleric ***, whereas a stone giant will get their butt handed to them

Wrong - its NOT a fire spell (like the invoker one). Next time you see it put on fiery daggers and see if you can actually deal any extra damage... Or normal damage...

L-A

I'm pretty sure that' date=' even though a FG won't be hurt by it, he still would be drawn out of camouflage and into combat when running into an invoker's firestorm.[/quote']

Not only that, but firestorm is useful for it's blinding affect as much as it's damage.

Not only that' date=' but firestorm is useful for it's blinding affect as much as it's damage.[/quote']

Only when cast upon one's enemy though, not if someone runs into an already 'running' firestorm. As far as I can remember, that is. Been some time

Easy enough to have it up and recast for the blind.

I'm going to say what everyone always eventually says when a pali string comes up. Pali's don't need anything, a friend of mine has ran countless pali's at pinn it seems everytime i turn around he runs another one, he always does really good, hardly ever dies, and yes kills quite a few people. As I remember he was the one whom finally con-deathed a certain nexus annoyance who was always in the shadows, They are really effective and they are really effective not mounted as well. I don't recommend being not mounted against a warrior or bashing class but against a communer/caster? dismount, Keep Goliath fight around when they get low on HP then just type mount and charge to finish'em.

You know, I still can't help but chuckle a bit whenever I see someone refer to a paladin as a "Pali".

You know' date=' I still can't help but chuckle a bit whenever I see someone refer to a paladin as a "Pali".[/quote']

What can I say I'm lazy.

Wrong - its NOT a fire spell (like the invoker one). Next time you see it put on fiery daggers and see if you can actually deal any extra damage... Or normal damage...

L-A

I would disagree, but I can't do that on the open forums.

I'm pretty sure that' date=' even though a FG won't be hurt by it, he still would be drawn out of camouflage and into combat when running into an invoker's firestorm.[/quote']

And I was talking purely about damage. The damage done from firestorm is pretty significant for most races, which is a good reason why magic resist, and in this case fire resist races would be good from the start.

I would disagree, but I can't do that on the open forums.

Having taken many deaths as a result of said skill, and significantly seen differences with and without, I agree with Evangelion. I can't go into much further detail, but one of the Imms who was snooping on a battle of mine even mentioned how I should have picked a different "skill" to use against a fire-wielder as opposed to what I selected.

Dey