Even then the durations strike me as insanely short (+1ab with ranged weapons for 21 minutes isn't a great bargain for a level 21 character.) Really, so many of the ranger spells are either 1-offs or have super-short durations that they demand that you go deep into ranger, forgoing multiclassing benefits. +2ab and +2dmg is shocking value for a single feat, and should be split into two for fighters in my opinion, but its addition only causes ranger to lag that much further behind, and since the archery path is pretty underpowered to begin with, granting this at 11 would help. Improved rapid shot becomes available at level 6 for fighters, but ranger is stunted in its own supposed area of expertise (archery path), offering this a wopping five levels late. One of the problems with ranger as I said is that it's a late blooming build that isn't a lot of fun early in the game. move improved rapid shot from level 11 to level 6 If there's no interest in adding these animal companion feats for free, an alternative suggestion would be to allow rangers to forgo the animal companion class feature altogether in exchange for improvements to their combat paths.Ģ. Regrettably it has no value at all, and in fact has negative value in that it's a 'class feature' that is occupying a space that would otherwise be filled by class features with actual utility. Natural bond and epic animal companion are granted feats.Īt level 8 my animal companion has 30 hp and dies in two hits.
Here's a list of things that I think would have to happen for Ranger to be a competitive class:ġ. The ranger necessitates that you take 21 levels of ranger, whereas, for example, the fighter can get +8 damage and +4ab with only 12 levels of fighter, allowing them to multiclass for far greater versatility without any trade-off in power. The animal companion, spell durations, and favored enemy damage, don't really become functional until 16-21, and even then, all they do is bring the ranger back up to where everyone else is at, only the other classes don't have to use buffs and juggle a hundred variables to achieve that level of power. It's been my experience that most power comes from the 96 prestige classes that exist on this server, and ranger is harmed in a way that many other classes aren't by the fact that it's an extremely late-blooming build requiring you to go far deeper than most other classes to get a payoff. The ranger-archer path, and really ranger in general, is extremely underpowered at BGTSCC.
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