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<blockquote data-quote="Mad Mac" data-source="post: 4863016" data-attributes="member: 27873">Being a ranged character has it's own advantages. In particular, being a Ranger with a powerful missle weapon that outranges most spells and special attacks, coupled with the mobility to outright avoid melee attackers rather easily allows Bow Rangers to spend most of the battle handing out massive damage in relative safety. They can also afford to dump strength in order to pump Dex and Wis as high as possible, compared to two-blade rangers. &nbsp; Melee Rangers aren't bad by any means, but they have a lot more things to juggle in both character building and combat (Trying to balance Strength, Dex and Wis so their AC doesn't tank, trying to dish out their heavy damage without being splatted or nullified by status effects, do you want ranged potential as a backup? ect)&nbsp; Of course, it probably helps that optimizing a bow ranger is as easy as selecting, Race=Elf.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mad Mac, post: 4863016, member: 27873"] Being a ranged character has it's own advantages. In particular, being a [I]Ranger[/I] with a powerful missle weapon that outranges most spells and special attacks, coupled with the mobility to outright avoid melee attackers rather easily allows Bow Rangers to spend most of the battle handing out massive damage in relative safety. They can also afford to dump strength in order to pump Dex and Wis as high as possible, compared to two-blade rangers. Melee Rangers aren't bad by any means, but they have a lot more things to juggle in both character building and combat (Trying to balance Strength, Dex and Wis so their AC doesn't tank, trying to dish out their heavy damage without being splatted or nullified by status effects, do you want ranged potential as a backup? ect) Of course, it probably helps that optimizing a bow ranger is as easy as selecting, Race=Elf. [/QUOTE]

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