Sniping Ranger - GOS?

[LivderaDeralleur]

Background Information
My Burghal Gnome Ranger - L50 - is currently in COL, though debating switching her to GOS and wondering the pros/cons of it. She's a pure sniping build: 2x ranged, 2x dodge, 2x ambush, 2x perception, 2x hiding, etc. My only worry is that I don't have any MOC, though could likely get a few ranks of it from my AG badge or something. She's usually pretty spot on at killing things with 1-hit eye crits from hiding, though, and figure I can handle with stealth, Camouflage (608), Tangleweed (610) and Mass Calm (619). It's how I handle bandits and it usually works pretty well, though not sure how it would transfer to GOS.

I've been debating this change for a while, as it'd give me another outlet of exp/hunting without having to completely uproot to a new town and try to find a proper hunting ground without being able to see maps (hardest part of playing this game blind - I'm limited to whatever areas I had memorized before I lost my sight and I hadn't gotten a character this high in level before.)

Questions
1. Do any of the grimswarm disarm? I really don't want to risk losing my best bow.
2. Do you suppose it's possible to attempt warcamping solo with this build? I realize some of the tasks can be done with stealth and unsure how perceptive grimswarm are in their warcamp.

[Cereal Killer]

1. Grimswarm do not disarm.
2. Warcamping solo as a sniping ranger is doable. The key things are target selection and being willing to run away from a bad situation. Having a full complement of outside spells makes it a lot easier. Having access to haste of some kind makes it a cakewalk.

[loxe]

For an ambushing ranger I recommend as much summon lore as possible and keep vine and swarm/breeze up at all times. I soloed my way through GoS this way with self cast spells only and really the only time I died was due to massive stacked round times from warcry and other cmans and the occasional implode.

[Shaps]

I would concur with most the comments here. I would recommend trying to 2x PF for the switch to GOS if you can fit it in. But the great part as a Ranger in GOS, is you do not use CMANs to much for maneuvers, which allows you to run plenty of Sigils as you wish.

[LivderaDeralleur]

Thanks for the opinions, guys!

I think I've managed 1.5x in PF at the moment, though should hope with Mobiles, etc., that maneuver evasion should be pretty good. As a gnome, too, my character's pretty quick. Think it's been a while since she got hit by a roa'ter maneuver, for example.

Think I'll try it out this weekend and see how I fare.

[gs4-PauperSid]

Quick question,

Does sigil of major bane apply to the arrows one shoots as a sunfist archer, (ie heavy crit weighted arrows) or to the bow you are shooting with (thus providing sighting/improved aim)? Gut instinct always figured it was the former, not the latter. Anyone know? Don't believe the documentation on gswiki clarified it.

[Jeril]

The arrows you shoot get weighting added to them.

[loxe]

Another great sigil for archers is determination. It allows you to keep shooting even with arm wounds

[LivderaDeralleur]

Definitely doing it for that determination sigil alone - there have been a couple times where I got injured in the arm and was effectively crippled except for Spikethorn.

[Vorpodu]

I'm very interested to know how you play this game blind.