Returning Ranger - Very Disoriented

[Alorn15]

Greetings,

I've been away for over a decade at this point, and am trying to re-acclimate to the game. Can anyone tell me if these are reasonable skills for a level 47 ranger to have?

 Alornen (at level 47), your current skill bonuses and ranks (including all modifiers) are:
  Skill Name                         | Current Current
                                     |   Bonus   Ranks
  Armor Use..........................|     170      70
  Combat Maneuvers...................|      99      23
  Ranged Weapons.....................|     198      98
  Ambush.............................|     150      50
  Physical Fitness...................|     170      70
  Dodging............................|     150      50
  Harness Power......................|     150      50
  Perception.........................|     198      98

Spell Lists
  Minor Spiritual....................|              19

Spell Lists
  Ranger.............................|              40

Looks like I'm an archer - and I do have a graceful ruic recurve longbow set with ivory nocks - whatever that is. I have a vague recollection that I'm also a fletcher, and that I used to do a lot of bounties.

More info:

Name: Alornen Race: Sylvankind  Profession: Ranger (shown as: Expeditionary)
Gender: Male    Age: 0    Expr: 2323884    Level:  47
                  Normal (Bonus)  ...  Enhanced (Bonus)
    Strength (STR):    85 (17)    ...   85 (17)
Constitution (CON):    82 (16)    ...   82 (16)
   Dexterity (DEX):    74 (22)    ...   79 (24)
     Agility (AGI):    82 (21)    ...   82 (21)
  Discipline (DIS):    91 (15)    ...   91 (15)
        Aura (AUR):    88 (24)    ...   88 (24)
       Logic (LOG):    91 (20)    ...   91 (20)
   Intuition (INT):    68 (9)     ...   73 (11)
      Wisdom (WIS):    82 (16)    ...   82 (16)
   Influence (INF):    92 (21)    ...   92 (21)
Mana:  149   Silver: 374

Alornen, your Adventurer's Guild information is as follows:

You currently have 44112 unspent bounty points.

You have accumulated a total of 204572 lifetime bounty points.

You have 0 expedited task reassignment vouchers remaining.

You have succeeded at the Kill Creatures task 46 times.
You have succeeded at the Retrieve Heirloom task 67 times.
You have succeeded at the Procure Skins task 84 times.
You have succeeded at the Procure Gems task 76 times.
You have succeeded at the Protect Traveller task 8 times.
You have succeeded at the Procure Herbs task 115 times.
You have succeeded at the Kill Dangerous Creature task 60 times.
You have succeeded at the Rescue Child task 46 times and failed 5 times.
You have succeeded at the Kill Bandits task 4 times.

The taskmaster told you:  "Hmm, I've got a task here from the town of Wehnimer's Landing.  It appears they have a creature problem they'd like you to solve.  Go report to Quin Telaren to find out more.  He's the Landing's West Gate guard, though you might want to check Helga's Tavern if he's not at his post.  Be sure to ASK about BOUNTIES."

Current society status:
   You are a Master in the Council of Light.

You have learned and are able to use the following abilities:
   Sign of Recognition
   Signal
   Sign of Warding
   Sign of Striking
   Sign of Clotting
   Sign of Thought
   Sign of Defending
   Sign of Smiting
   Sign of Staunching
   Sign of Deflection
   Sign of Hypnosis
   Sign of Swords
   Sign of Shields
   Sign of Dissipation
   Sign of Healing
   Sign of Madness
   Sign of Possession
   Sign of Wracking
   Sign of Darkness
   Sign of Hopelessness

Past society affiliations (resigned or cast out):
   The Order of Voln
   The Guardians of Sunfist

You may reset your society status one time.  Enter SOCIETY RESET for details.

You may view your society task information via the SOCIETY TASK command.

I woke on Teras.

Anyway, I guess I'm just wondering what I should be doing with my life. What are the best/most fun ranger builds at present? Where should a level 47 ranger live?

Any guidance greatly appreciated <3

[Taernath]

You're open archery or just 608? You should be fine with that. Is the CM for wspec or shadow mastery or something?

I did pyrothags at that level, if theirs or their buddies' maneuvers are too much you can try trali/vortaz/faeroths over in EN.

[n0551n3n0m1n3]

Looks about right. Not too much experience with rangers but the training looks solid. I'd suggest a wiki read though, gswiki.play.net also archery is getting some updates RSN, so keep an eye open for those

[Alorn15]

You're open archery or just 608? You should be fine with that. Is the CM for wspec or shadow mastery or something?

@Tearnath hmmm good questions. I honestly don't remember. Do you have a recommendation between open archery and 608? I'm not sure about the CMs either... do you have a recommendation on that?

[Taernath]

@Tearnath hmmm good questions. I honestly don't remember. Do you have a recommendation between open archery and 608? I'm not sure about the CMs either... do you have a recommendation on that?

Open archery is fine, it's mostly personal preference. You can use 608 in conjunction with open archery and get most of the benefits without having to train in hiding, which is kinda the main draw.

As far as CMs they are relatively mediocre imo and not really fire pushing too early. Mfire is trash, surge only if you have strength issues. Wspec and Smaster would be nice but not necessary.

/edit: almost forgot, there are some new CMs that are or will be added to archery. No idea how good or bad they are just yet.

[Alorn15]

Great. I'll try and remember how to spell/sign up, how to use lich, how to fletch, how to find the hunting area, and how to shoot arrows

[TheLastShamurai]

Ranger CMANs are limited; can't learn WSpec or Surge.

For open archery, I would go CDef/Dirtkick first, then Disarm. Assuming you don't want/need Sweep.

[Alorn15]

I figured out how to cman info:

Alornen, your Combat Maneuver training is as follows:

Skill name Mnemonic Ranks
Combat Movement cmovement 2
Cunning Defense cdefense 2

Available Combat Maneuver Training Points: 3
Unlearning Combat Maneuver Training Points: 6
Estimated time until next point conversion: 1 hour, 38 minutes
Total Points converted during your current 30-day unlearning cycle: 1
Number of days remaining in your current 30-day unlearning cycle: 28 days

Oh, and it looks like I'm migrating Minor Spiritual down for some reason:

Alornen (at level 47), your base skill bonuses, ranks and goals are:
Skill Name | Actual Actual
| Bonus Ranks Goals In-Game Time to Goal
Armor Use..........................| 170 70 70
Combat Maneuvers...................| 99 23 50 ASAP (will rise when points are available)
Ranged Weapons.....................| 198 98 98
Ambush.............................| 150 50 50
Physical Fitness...................| 170 70 70
Dodging............................| 150 50 50
Harness Power......................| 150 50 50
Perception.........................| 198 98 98

Spell Lists
Minor Spiritual....................| 19.865 14 12 days, 3 hours, 37 minutes

Spell Lists
Ranger.............................| 40 40

[Taernath]

Ranger CMANs are limited; can't learn WSpec or Surge.

For open archery, I would go CDef/Dirtkick first, then Disarm. Assuming you don't want/need Sweep.

Argh, yeah, forgot about dirtkick and disarm. I guess disarm isn't as bad now that we can recover stuff?

[Gizmo]

Welcome back old man