Magical Skills

[jcbain]

What magical skills are good for archer rangers? MIU or Arcane Symbols? How much is recommended for using certain items like haste imbeds and whatnot?

[BriarFox]

What magical skills are good for archer rangers? MIU or Arcane Symbols? How much is recommended for using certain items like haste imbeds and whatnot?

10 ranks of MIU is a good start.

[Ayamei]

In much later levels, magic skills will help you wear spells not in your circles in spell burst areas. Personally, I think MIU is much more handy to have than arcane symbols, unless you are interested in hunting in the broken lands, which you will need 10ish (maybe more?) ranks for.

Arcane symbols will let you cast more defensive spells if you have the right scrolls, but rangers already have a kick ass selection of defensive spells, and most those other elemental spells are easy enough to find when you really need them. Also, you can get access to fun spells like eye spy or manna if you find the right scroll.

With MIU training, you can make your own trinkets to be imbedded using 614, and haste plus a longbow is a lot of fun. I would say get 15-20 ranks so you can use rods with ewave in it. However, 10 ranks should be just find to get the benefit of haste and things with guards in them.