You are correct; movement spells do not affect mounts (although levitate will).

In my experience, Rangers have very little need for mounts. That's certainly not to say that there aren't certian times they'd come in handy, but I've found those times few and far between. The only reason I could see getting a mount as a Ranger is if the dropped bridle was going to rot, you had millions of excess plat, or if you were one of those odd-balls that put all of his AA's into casting abilities (lol).

I would save the free mount for your shaman, or for another casting class if you plan to roll one. If you'd like to get an idea of what it's like to use a mount as a Ranger, you can do the Resurrection of Marnek the Wicked quest. The very first part yields a Ghostly Bridle, which can be used (once) to summon a horse. Fun, easy quest, and very old-school. Ironically, I carried mine around for months and never did try it >:( (note that if you want to carry it around like I did, you have to finish the quest; the first bridle is no-rent)



Edited, Wed Oct 19 16:14:00 2005 by Gladestrider

Better for a pure caster if you have one you will play a lot. However in case you were not aware, you can med while on a mount, shooting arrows. Being able to do reasonable DPS while medding is a pretty nice deal, althought you may only end up using it after a rez.

Hmm, Brushfire is 612 base with a .5 sec cast time. your bow damage better than 1224 dps?

Shammie-wise, sitting on a horse = sitting mana regen + standing hp regen / bear form was about 4 hp regen last time I checked.

Edited, Fri Oct 28 07:24:42 2005 by Brewnoe

Thanks for leading me to this thread. I must be blind. I ended up using my /claim warhorse on my 64 ranger. I often trio with a pally and an enchanter. between fights I heal the pally to full life about 10 casts of chloroblast this was taxing on the mana pool even with good chanter mind candy. With the mount I can do everything I did before, but I don't ever run out of mana. I just wish the animation of the bow shots wasn't to the side. looks stupid to me, but not as silly as a ranger on a horse I am sure. i guess i just wanted to be a sucess story for ranger mounts. I wouldn't go back to sitting between fights if I could.

Just to clarify - wasn't suggesting chain-nuking (I assumed you'd be shooting during the recast delay), the 'dps' figure was just to point out that slipping a nuke in between shots might do more than just convince your group-mates that you're not hitting an 'autofire and afk' macro too often.

Glad to hear it's working out well for you Lakkof. Not so glad to hear you're getting stuck with the ghetto-dr00d job, but it beats spending nights afk in the guildhall hottub, right?

(Torn between a 'GD hippies' response to the 'no nukes' dewds and a 'GD Mongolians' line here)

I disagree with most here, lvl 70 ranger and im SOOOO glad I used /claim on my ranger. Your right with your first post, once into the GoD and OoW zones the tank usually pulls more often due to incoming agro wooping our butts and if your going to sit and pluck away its always nice to have a horse, like in mpg, many new por, & dod DoN zones are outdoors and you can do this. Non rangers tend to think we dont need mounts until they want our buffs, snares, roots, plus our post 65 nukes do great dmg due to the low cast times, plus dmg shields once in a while etc. Add to the fact that we are the last class to get FT items from raids we usually have no other mana regen than C and mask of the stalker line self buff. Plus we have a small mana pool if your wis isn't maxed, and of course we focus on str, agi, dex, stam and of course HP way before focusing on raising wisdom. As you can see this adds up to a very poor perfoming mana based class and the horse rocks for keeping it up. In chain pull groups this can be the difference between being Fom or Oom at all times.

Okay. First of all, a mount is an excellent idea. Who doesnt want an extra +15 mana regen while in combat?

You dont need the warhorse, or any of the more expensive monts, though. A 9k drog (yes, the slowest and cheapest one) is NO DIFFERENT than any other mount when youre sitting in the back of the group on /autofire... The movement speed issue isnt a problem, were ranjas :) just /dismount and you can trip the beastlord on the way -zooom- past them all LOL.

If youre going to /claim a mount for a ranger you should have used the roboboar (yes, the roboboar) cuz it's in no way going to be put to any better use on any other toon. But hey, thats just my 2cp.

WEll, I will say this first, I would be willing to bet that most people posting here have never claimed or perchased a mount and up untill about 2 weeks ago i hadnt either. That being said i wish i would have a lot earlier, it is very nice having a mount indeed, I am in a raiding guild and when there is a wipe it is very nice that when in outdoor zones you can loot your corpse and click a mount for medding while you rebuff the raid and so forth. When I do bow (which is becoming more rare as we move into newer zones) because of AE's and such or other reasons, I am on a mount, ranger's are not a pure DPS class, you cannot get great dps from hitting autofire or melee attack it just wont happen, however when you are doting and chain blasting (yes I said doting...it's worth it, parsing has proved that) you can pump out fairly good DPS but you need mana regen to do that. The other benifit is of course speed, I have the fastest mount which I combined with the warhorse making it a fast warhorse. It's much faster then SoE.

Now back to what i started off saying...I wish i would have gotten it coming up as a ranger (thru about 50-65) because of all the bowing we do coming up and because we do a lot less pulling at lower lvls.

Over all I would say YES rangers having a mount is usefull there is no dought about it I am very glad I got mine and would not resell it at this point, HOWEVER...NO it is not something you need or that would hinder your ability to play your class...thats a given.

Hope this help's somewhat, I just wanted to put in feedback as someone who got one.

Well let me tell you something not having a mount during self buffs or for fear kitting early in life just makes no sense.This is a must for buffing times,solo times fear kitting and medding or just looking good with auto fire on eating a large combo pizza and drinking monster energy drinks lmao.Yes all my toons have high end horse i earned them all farming platium myself not buying platium off e-bay or toons for that matter.Im currently at lvl 51 with my ranger and have to tell yea between horse speed and instant gate potions i dont die unless linkdeath happens.Anyways anyone who tells you a horse is useless is just pure silly.It dont matter if you get a free one or a cheap 8700 plat one buy it you wont regret it.I have meleed from lvl 1-49 and now from lvl 49-51 i have been bow kitting get skills up quickly.I will keep hunting in outdoor zones fear kitting all the way to 65 easy if not 70 while im lfg.The only time i melee now is when im in groups otherwise the bow is being used solo.

You bother to dig up a year-old post to make the poin that rangers are lazy?

And everyone with red hair is a psychopath? Finns all like to stab people with knives? Left-handed people are all ghey? All Cretans are liars?

Please, oh please, impart more of your endless wisdom upon us ignorant masses. I can't wait to hear the next pearl of profound insight that might come from your (rear) end...



Edited, Oct 1st 2007 11:54am by Whitman

Are basically wa**ers