Mini Ranger Guide

[Ron]

This is just some general information about RA's I thought some of you should know.Most of this will simply be suggestions and not telling you exactly what you should have.

Also i'll probably be adding additional information to the guide such as battle tips n other stuff.

Equips

Here are my current equips;

Spirit Vulcan
Spread Needle
Frozen Shooter
Bringers Rifle
Excalibur
Daylight Scar

DF Field;
-Cent/Ability
-Cent/Ability
-V501
-H/Battle
-Cure/Shock

Ranger Wall

Soniti 5/145/50/0

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Those are my personal equips I use,and most of that you will see on many rangers.

Suggestions for equips

Mech-Gun type weapon-These will probably be your main choice of weapon.They are very powerful granted you have the ATP.You will be owning enemies easily once you have a good amount of atp.

Spread Needle-This is a shot type weapon with rifle speed and mechgun range.This will become your standard multi-hit gun you will never leave Pioneer without.

Frozen Shooter or Snow Queen -Froozer as they call it,always freezes an enemy if they can be frozen.It makes a perfect support weapon and it's great for when you are alone and you need to stop a few enemies in their tracks.A Snow queen is the same as a froozer,except the ice can pierce enemies meaning it can freeze enemies in a line,and it cannot combo.

Bringer's Rifle-You won't be using this rifle much except for it's special.It's special,demons,cuts enemies HP in half by 1/4.So that means when your fighting those Indi belra's on ult or those nasty Dorphons on Ep4,this gun makes your life so much easier.

Stat Boosting unit(v101,cent/ability,etc)-These units boost your stats.You should have atleast 1 of these bad boys,or even two.

Speed Boost unit(h/battle,v101)-You should also have a unit to boost your attack speed.As a ranger,you really focus on hit and run tactics.Speed boost allows you to get in,hit your target quickly,and get out quickly.

Cure unit(cure/shock)-Having a useful cure unit is very important and helpful.For example,cure shock saves me from that crappy shock from vol opt which can mess u up!

POW Mag-This is debatable,but I think a POW mag is a must have.As a ranger,defense isn't something you have to worry about.ATA isn't anything you have to worry about either because..well..your a ranger.Mind is completely useless to seeing as the only techs that will really be of help are S/D(if your human).ATP is a must for rangers.I personally went with 5/145/50/0.The extra dex so I can use on my other characters as well.You don't have to do this exact same stat plan,but it is effective and gives you a few points extra on DEX if for some reason your lacking dex.

Ranger wall-Also debatable.Once again,your a ranger.Defense isn't of any importance to you at all.This shield adds 20 ATA and a small amount of defense.Alot of rangers ignore this and go for something with some good defense like FTD.I choose to go with something a bit more useful than a extra 200-300+ on my defense.

Useful Armor(Lieutenant Mantle,Sacred Cloth,etc)-I'd recommend something like either of the two mentioned above.Lieutenant Mantle has built in trap vision which can save you and your party the trouble of being frozen or paralyzed by those traps.Built in trap vision adds to your ability to better support the guys on the front line if they are fighting enemies near traps.Sacred Cloth also prevents paralysis,but you can't use that till level 140ish.

From my experience,those are the most useful items i've come across personally.Some of this stuff is debatable but all of this stuff is very helpful in ultimate.When you get higher you guys will probably start looking at some of these items.

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[Tenshu]

If they can obtain it early on from Black Paper's Deal, a Frozen Shooter can be useful to a Ranger, the androids in particular.
Perhaps certain tiers can be put up for this guide, in terms of N/H/VH/Ult.

In my experience in helping Rangers, I felt that Handguns, Rifles, Sabers, and Partisans are good choices to have as a weapon/side-weapon, and to leave Shots and Mechguns aside until Very Hard.

As you know, I'm not a liker of special strikes but if anyone likes it, a BPD Spread Needle can suffice for most of your fighting. Just remember that you can use some Hunter weapons for a reason, this seems to be ignored as I see Rangers shooting enemies when they're VERY close.

The Hunter weapons move you as you strike, in particular the Male Saber animation is very good for striking while avoiding another enemy's attack or your target's "counterattack". A sacrificial set of Mechgun type weapons either from the shop or found ingame can help as well, to limit any endangering of yourself, Spirit would be a good choice for the human Rangers. Charge can work just as well, provided you have enough meseta, though in my own opinion abusing of these special strikes should be saved for tough bosses rather than regular enemies (you kind of need a bit of a challenge to have fun on PSO, giving the enemy a free fighting chance is good for that)

Armor, for Rangers starting out, any armor you find in the field is good enough, simply make use of moving around as a hunter would, you'll barely notice you're using an Armor on Hard mode Ruins (yup... was the only armor I had with 4 slots starting out lol) on Ultimate, an early Lieutenant Mantle can protect you rather well, later on you may be using a Guard Wave more (easier to find with high stat boosts)

Shields, if you want to boost your ATA before going onto trying to find *cough* Red Ring, a Ranger Wall can help you out as well, for RAcasts and RAcaseals, a Gratia can be of use for you for a long time. Unit-wise, Arms and Power units can be of great use to you so you can hit things hard and efficiently, in the later difficulties you may want to find a V101 for its stat boosts as well as raising your attack speed. If you plan on using the Hell special strike, a V502 will give you a needed boosts, for ATA, a Heavenly/Arms can suffice or if you want to, try to find a Limiter and change it into Adept for its 20 ATA boost, 10 to all other stats and 6 to all resistances.

[Ron]

Feedback and debate are welcome

[kola]

Thanks for the Guide Ron, It's great for starters like me, I'll try and get others to view it also.
One question: What are some great items you can get for the Ranger class that aren't only in Very Hard?

[GamesBloke]

DOH!!!

i gotta mind mag...............
total and utter................................

FAIL!!

[Ron]

Oct 12, 2008 19:03:42 GMT -4 @kola said:

Thanks for the Guide Ron, It's great for starters like me, I'll try and get others to view it also.
One question: What are some great items you can get for the Ranger class that aren't only in Very Hard?

It really depends on your ATA...You should be fine with something like a Final Impact,L&K 14s,and maybe a Vartisia.I pretty much made it through VH on gamecube and BB with those items.Of course,your definitely going to have to ditch those weapons later mainly because there are much much much more useful weapons than those.

How helpful the weapons are are always a top priority to me.