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Does anyone know what drops the temporal sack?

A level 50 ranger can deal out much more damage then a level 50 warrior, and we have a wide array of spells that can be very helpful in most situations, so maybe the lack of HP and AC is our downside, im not saying this makes these items ( shich are a waste of time ) awsome, im just saying we will never have a AC like a warrior of the same level

Alright. Look at it this way: I do more damage and hit faster than most warriors I group with. Which means that I get AGRO, now that is why Verant made Jolt. However, after 50 if a mob unslowed is beating on you for the time it takes to cast Jolt, maybe 2 or 3 times a fight then that = one or two Celestial heals from a cleric. So a Ranger with bad ac post 50 = a MAJOR mana drain. (before 50 I didn't have so much trouble with getting agro, bt in fact a ranger at ANY level with bad ac = a major mana drain.) We need to be able to take the pop shots mobs throw at us while casting jolt without getting down to far in health. You have to understand that a Ranger has like 3/4 to 1/2 the hit points of a warrior. So if we have good ac and get doubled for 100 instead of 130, those 60 hitpoints mean alot. This is especially applicable when we are the snarer in the group, as snaring generally gets us agro. (Tunare bless the few warriors i have met who can hold agro even while I am snaring!) However, without taunting or snaring or casting AT ALL, I generally get agro a few times a fight which, if fighting things like bodyguards and cursed hands in KC, can mean up to about 600 hit points of damage taken while casting jolt those 2 or 3 times. 600 hit points is about 1/3 of a Ranger at 52's total hit points.

I am sure from this you can begin to see the necessity of Rangers having good ac. This is just speaking from my expirience as a level 52 (first character and untwinked) Ranger. I am sure that some Rangers out there (the ones with better gear and aha! better ac) could find this unreal as they don't get hit for quite that much, etc. However, a majority of the Rangers I meet have ac about like mine.

Hope this sheds some light on this for you.

Velondra Sedai
52nd Ranger
Erollsi Marr

P.S. Glad I didn't go out spending hours trying to get this gear, or spend pp to buy components! YUCK once again they give Ranger's the stiff. This should be level 25-35 quest gear, not 45-60.

dont you just love it when a player of another class tries to tell a player of a different class how he should play his character? Take the druid telling the ranger (who is lvl 52 he said btw...i think he knows his class by that time) how to play his ranger. Love it love it. Now lets go see if we can find some cats telling dogs how to behave.

I never flame anyone for their opinion but this time im gonna flame verant big time, im 52 and was trying to get these armor items and it is very hard to come by them, most items needed drop from rare spawn named stuff anywhere from light blue to dark blue cons to me, but as these items are being posted I look at there stats and they really, really suck for the trouble one goes through to get them, I say BAH on verant, they suck, as a ranger at post 50 lvl's I need more AC not str and 1 dex is laughable on any item at any lvl LOL, very unwise armor planning verant, give us more ac please