Vain question on rangers

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Hello every one (been lurking for a week or so http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_razz.gif) http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime1.gif

I have a rather vain question I have been watching the trailers and beta footage having seen amazing spells and even more amazing melee skills, jump slashes, charging cork screws and such, and I was wondering what of Rangers?

I can not seem to find anything on them from an aesthetics point of view I’ve read about freezing shots and so on but I haven’t “seen” anything about the class. Does the ranger class get flashy skills like the hunters and forces or are they limited to hurling bullets/arrows/bolts at the enemy that have special affects like turning the monster into an ice cube which is fancy just not as visually impressive as charging across the map in a tornado of pointy death http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime1.gif

So just wondering if anyone has seen or knows if rangers get impressive looking skills as there seems to be no footage of them.

Sorry for my highly shallow question http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime2.gif

[Ryna]

On 2006-06-20 02:46, -Linear- wrote:
I can not seem to find anything on them from an aesthetics point of view I’ve read about freezing shots and so on but I haven’t “seen” anything about the class. Does the ranger class get flashy skills like the hunters and forces or are they limited to hurling bullets/arrows/bolts at the enemy that have special affects like turning the monster into an ice cube which is fancy just not as visually impressive as charging across the map in a tornado of pointy death http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime1.gif


There is a reason you have no seen any "flashy" effects for Rangers. That is because they don't have any from what we've seen. Rangers can only sling bullets/arrows at enemies to inflict special effects.

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Ah thank you very much, bit of a shame but I’ll probably still be a ranger http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime1.gif. just wondering as I’ve seen many many clips of hunters and forces but nothing on rangers so I was curious.

Thanks again!

[Ryna]

On 2006-06-20 03:27, -Linear- wrote:
Ah thank you very much, bit of a shame but I’ll probably still be a ranger http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime1.gif. just wondering as I’ve seen many many clips of hunters and forces but nothing on rangers so I was curious.


In PSU, it seems like the intended purpose of Rangers will be to inflict status effects while the hunters/forces do most of the damage. You can do some decent damage, but you will need to have a lot of guns in your inventory due to the PP consumption.

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So I would assume that the ranged weapons come with certain usable skills and/or attributes for different status affects for each Individual weapon.

And pp would be ammo? As far as my understanding goes you don’t by ammo for ranged weapons so you would need to buy multiple guns of the same type and throw them out when the PP is used up?

Also if that’s the case the shops must sell fairly decent ranged weapons or you would be looking for ranged weapon drops constantly for certain types to replace previously used up ones.

(I’m assuming better weapons drop of monsters rather then store bought ones like in PSO).

I so full of annoying questions today http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime2.gif

[Sindustries]

Most of your questions can be answered in the photon art's section, via the main page.





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Whoops totally missed that thank you, I'll be quiet now http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime2.gif

[Ryna]

On 2006-06-20 03:49, -Linear- wrote:
So I would assume that the ranged weapons come with certain usable skills and/or attributes for different status affects for each Individual weapon.

And pp would be ammo? As far as my understanding goes you don’t by ammo for ranged weapons so you would need to buy multiple guns of the same type and throw them out when the PP is used up?

Also if that’s the case the shops must sell fairly decent ranged weapons or you would be looking for ranged weapon drops constantly for certain types to replace previously used up ones.


PP is used for special attacks (Photon Arts) and regular attacks on ranged weapons. You can refill your PP after missions by using special cubes. During a mission, you can use expensive PP-refilling items.

I would suggest looking over the Weapons and Photon Arts guides to try to get a better understanding of the PP system.