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JUSTICE'S RANGER GUIDE- PART 2 Introduction: THE RANGER CLASS HELLO! I am Justice, the world's biggest RAcast/Ranger fanatic. In the world of Phantasy Star and many other MMO's, I've been playing the role of the ranged class all my life. In PSOBB, Ranger is considered by many to be the most balanced and powerful class type, with considerable adaptability and a useful array of items at their disposal. Rangers play many roles in the party: Status effect spreader, enemy controller, damage dealer, support, and just all around badass. WAIT A MINUTE THERE MR.JUSTICE... WHY DO YOU CONSIDER THEM THE BEST CLASS? ISN'T THAT JUST AN OPINION!! Well Captain CAPSLOCK, technically you are right... it is essentially an opinion but I will explain my reasoning. ATA is one of the most important statistics in all of PSO and is the only stat that does not have a material. Rangers have the highest ATA pools, and they won't have a hard time maxing that stat either. Considering their ability to attack from a distance, they are always (if played well) out of harm's way and can easily solo. They are quite decent at meleeing and support as well depending on their class, and as far as androids go, their trap growth and usage is excellent. Mechguns are argueably the best weapons in PSO, and ranger's get the best ones. With access to all the best weapons, the best stats, and being so damn sweet looking... Rangers rule pso! Now that we've established that Rangers are amazing, let's learn some things about them! CLASS GUIDE ^ This Radar chart represents a comparison of each classes maximum statistics (On Ultima)* *HP reduced to base at 200 and not max so as not to distort the scale Hello again my fellow Ranger affectionados, today we will learn about the classes of Ranger, the differences, pros/cons, usage, gears/units, stat maxing and how they rank up!First off however I will say that any class when played well can suceed in the world of PSO. That being said... one must realize that some classes are better than others. Shocking! Yes, this is a fact that we all must embrace when playing our dear MMO. These rankings are not solely opinion... they are grounded upon facts. Anyway, let's start out with some statistic comparisons. Level 200 Base stats: 1st 2nd 3rd 4th LUK = 10 for all classes RAmar: HP 1520 TP 704 ATP 806 DFP 359 MST 505 ATA 230 EVP 639 Ramarl: HP 1315 TP 931 ATP 743 DFP 426 MST 732 ATA 216 EVP 798 RAcast: HP 1964 TP 0 ATP 859 DFP 505 MST 0 ATA 199 EVP 626 RAcaseal: HP 1890 TP 0 ATP 775 DFP 562 MST 0 ATA 208 EVP 713 Just by looking at the statistic colors here, it should already be painfully obvious what each class excells at. RAmar: All-Round/ Support RAmarl: Spellcaster RAcast: Damage Dealer RAcaseal: Tank Justice's Rank of classes: RAcast RAmarl RAmar RAcaseal So why? If you look at RAcast's massive HP and ATP, it should be obvious that he is built for parties. His absence of magic power makes him tough to solo with, but often his sheer power in a party with a healer/buffer is matched only by the HUcast! RAmarl is ranked #2 for her insane soloing ability! The RAmar is almost tied with the RAmar but his non-specialization is more of a detriment than a benifactor. However, he's a great alternative to those less skilled enough to operate a RAcast with his resta ability. Resta is needed by rangers but is not essencial... as the key to playing ranger is to not get hit... which is why the TANK stats RAcaseal ranks as the worst ranger.... and possibly the very worst in the game. In-depth Class analysis and usage RAcast ----------------------------------- PROS: Strongest Ranger class in party (atp by a large margin) Unique Walking Noise (STOMP STOMP STOMP) Durible Best HP stat in the game(2300+!) Great at Melee In ult: increased freeze/confuse/hp steal/exp steal +30% Cannot be slowed by faltz, Paralyzed/poisoned HP automatically heals itself Traps/ Trap vision CONS: Requires more skill to use over RAmar Poor at Soloing compared to RAmar/l (ESPECIALLY EP 4) and is very dependant on party Will miss alot without proper gear/mag No Magic Cannot use Virus Armour (can use wedding dress though) Overview: There's no hiding it, RAcast is my favourite class in all of PSO and for good reason. I'm not a solo-er, and on a party these guys just decimate anything in their path with Buffs/debuffs. The strongest party is a party with specialists, and RAcast is the damage specialist being the strongest ranger. Freeze traps are your very best friend, making RAcast far less reliant on Frozen Shooter/ Queen. While our HP is the best in the game and our DFP is better than RAmar's by a large margin you still have to battle very carefully, taking care not to get hit as much as you can. This is due to a lack of resta. Always try to carry 10 Dimates, 1 telepipe (at least) 10 Trimates, 10 Moons 10 Sols and if you aren't too poor... try to carry 10 star Atomizers. These are basically reserve trimates for when you run out. Don't waste them on humans/newmans if you don't have to because they have their own resta. Some RAcast opt to hold a spare antipara for their human/newman friends but I frown upon this! They should carry antiparalysis/sols, it isn't your job to support since you are dealing the majority of the damage! RAcasts, while inferior to the humans in this aspect, can solo. It is not impossible! Use all of your traps wisely and group the enemies. Group and Trap then pull out a good spread weapon and kill. This is your basic means of handling large groups of enemies in and out of parties. USE TRAPS!!!! I cannot stress this enough! You not using traps is like a RAmarl refusing to use magic. Our ability to instantly spread status effects across the field is a godsend and really supports our party! Best use of a trap is to set the trap and step a half step or so back behind it, turn around and shoot it to activate it faster. Practice doing this in the first room of a normal TTF until it becomes second nature to you. DO NOT WASTE TRAPS EITHER! Don't use a trap on a group of 2 small enemies if you are in for a long run. Teleporting back to refresh traps will kill your PB meter. (which sucks) This is the same reason why you need to conserve your Mates too. Constantly reteleporting back to town wastes time and meseta and interupts the flow of your party. The walk to the Hospitol is a long way IMO. Memorize where Healing Rings are in quests/ maps instead. These will fully restore your traps! Freeze traps are your best bet by far... but the other traps are by no means useless. Confusion traps are always fun since they pit our foes against each other but use them with caution... you need to step further back when attacking a mob of confused enemies... if they are close enough they can still hit you. Damage traps are awesome too! (Especially while you melee) Fire/Damage traps actually hurt the enemies more than you expect (At lvl200 mine usually do a set amount of like 300+ on enemies) an added effect is that enemies will be stunned when these things explode. This is enough to stop a charging Zu or any minion type enemy mid attack. Nuking is a technique I invented where I spam the fire trap button while running through a mob of enemies or standing still. These will explode faster as they chain with each other after the incial delay and spread decent amount of damage across the mob. When ever I go to melee I drop a damage trap, it just became habit to me really. It adds alot of damage, and it usually stuns the enemies fast enough to stop any incial attacks prepped for my entry or gives me enough time to get behind them. Use traps when fighting Satillite Lizards in Episode 4, if you freeze them you can get behind them fast and still use your guns. Guns WILL still work from behind. When fighting bosses always make sure to be near a force that can heal you. Don't expect half/mage (RAmarl/Hunewearl) classes to always buff/heal you as their job is to deal damage attacking as well. Same with Fomar/l. If they are meleeing you really shouldn't badger them... Don't be afraid to remind your party that you need buffs/resta politely. Some newer players don't realize how party dependant racasts are. If they tell you to just use your mates... find a new party. There's nothing worse than dealing with an unhelpful force who wants nothing but to nuke all the enemies with his attack spells and nothing else OPTIMAL GEAR: -Shield: At low levels: Ranger Wall- This adds ever needed ATA and is equiptable at even level 46. Easy to aquire as well, all you have to do is get 300 Gallon points at gallon's shop quest and you will unlock a ??? option when talking to gallon. Then you will be able to buy it. RED RING! Sure the MST is a waste... but it still gives +20 to every other stat, including ATA! Beyond base too? Just hunt this shield it's the only one you'll ever need. It's dropped 1/38 by Dark Faltz ULT white ID. EASY HUNT! (Best quest: TTF/ Path to Salvation) -Armour: Black Hound Cuirtass- You're an android so use this sweet android only gear! This subtracts equiptment EVP -200, (not base EVP) but adds 300 DFP. This is great because EVP is a generally useless stat. There's two defense stats, why do you need both? Specialize! And our DFP is already quite high and our EVP is already very low so why not just go to greater extremes? Electro Frame/DF Field: These armors are good for casts as well, yet they are not as good as black hound. Visually these are way cooler though so I like to use them! Hahaha, NOW UR SEXY... AND BEING SEXY IS HALF THE BATTLE. -Units: V502, V101 You gotta hunt these! Seriously! 502 2X the activation for hell! Helps paralyze, freeze and confusion as well but we have traps so who cares? 101- Increases your attack speed by 40% and adds 15 to every stat! (1.5 to ata) GET IT -S parts: These add ATA beyond base. This is good if you have alot of low hit weapons! Centaurion ability: This you will need on this server because it adds quite a bit to your stats. The max stats have increased by 100 (ata by 10 and evp by 30) so with our 100 mat count, we need all the mats we can get to get those yellow stats. MAXing RAcast stats: TO BE ADDED SOON Advanced: GODcast soloing If you have access to two computers like I do... there is a way to make RAcast the ultimate solo. -Create an alternate account with a FOnewearl/ FOmarl (best support classes) -Get said character to around 120, and have Resta, Shifta/Deband, Jellen/Zalure at level 30 (using technique units if you -Long on to RAcast and your support on each computer -Practice walking both characters at the same time The key here is to focus on one screen, and have that character always be visible on your screen -Once you've mastered that you can easily solo with racast! Have you racast protect your force and have the force simply stand back and s/d, j/z, and resta when needed. This makes for the ultimate soloing team when you cannot find a decent force to partner with/ just feel like soloing. For bosses, you can allow your support to die just so you can have a source of buffs/zalature. With the power of a racast on level 30 buffs you wont waste that too many mates (especially if you are skilled at dodging). Just moon the force when you need a buff refresh or near the end of the fight so they van gain exp. In this way, you are truely a GODcast and the Force will level as an added bonus. (using zal/jell will give them exp as if they fought the enemy!) I will create a video of me doing this soon. I can actually solo Olga, Faltz, and shamberlain this way (Though it does take a try or two sometimes) RAmar --------------------- PROS: Best ATA of any class in the game Second best attack power decent in solo and parties Shifta/Deband 15 Resta Basic Spells Can use 250 Materials Coolest looking in all of PSO CONS: Much weaker than RAcast (outclassed next to a racast in a party with buffs) Worse at soloing than RAmarl Low level techniques No Jellen/Zalure Doesn't really excell at anything Poor for Melee Very overplayed OVERVIEW: This class is probably one of the most overplayed and overrated classes in all of PSO history (Much like the HUmar). The only thing that saves the RAmar from the level of mediocrity of the HUmar is his S/D. This class is not a bad class however, and is very solid and safe choice that can do most anything. Versitile is the best way to describe this class. It's really the best class in the game for a new player since they are very easy to play as. With Resta 15, you can heal yourself rather well. The low defense isn't too much of a drawback since you'll be attacking from a distance but you probably should avoid meleeing as much as the RAcast. Your ATA is high, but don't think you won't need ata boosting gear or hit on your weapons. You can solo effectively and play on teams and be very strong. I see RAmar as the middle point between the party powerhouse RAcast and the Solo queen RAmar. In V2 of PSO, these were insanely good since there was no RAmarl... but now, they really have been outclassed. Still easy though. I mean playing RAmar is so easy even a RAcaseal can do it! J/K! =p Do not chose this class based on his attack spell ability at all. He's by no means the next Harry Potter having only 15, save your TP for restaing yourself or spirit mechs. Gifoie is your friends though as it can hitstun enemies as they spawn etc, racks up damage. Gi/Rabarta can freeze things if you get surrounded... but really use a snowqueen or frozen shooter gets that job done faster. In parties filled with High levels that kill stuff quickly a quick gizonde/rafoie is usually good enough to ensure you get exp. But don't spam your spells, focus on your ATP based attack methods. I shouldn't have to remind you of your poor MST. Beserk attacks (like Heaven Striker) are alot easier to use over the RAcast as well. (RAmarl is better at using Beserk however) Really though, the RAmar is pretty basic and easy to play, and doesn't need too too much instuction. But remember just because you CAN do everything... doesn't mean you SHOULD. You can melee as well, but you should probably avoid it. When I see RAmars rushing in blindly with a double saber I'm just liek... NOOB PLZ. U AIN'T NO HUMARZ. If you want to play like that play a humar... (no wait, play a hunter that doesn't suck like a Hucast /Hunewearl). The reason you shouldn't melee apeshit all over the place (aside from the fact that you're RANGER) is because you have the worst defenses out of all the rangers. MR. JUSTICE YOU SAID I WAS WELL -ROUNDED! Well, I lied. Your EVP is way worse than RAmarl, and your DFP is far worse than the androids. This isn't bad for a ranger at all, it just means you shouldn't pretend that you are some sort of anime samurai character and releash your banki kao-ken Gomu gomu fists of kyubi fury all over enemies. Optimal Gear: -Shield: Red Ring/Ranger Wall: (See descriprion under RAcast gear) -Armour: Leutienant Mantle: Use this at lower levels... (like 101+) Enables trap sight and has great def/evp. Virus Armour: This is a rather expensive armour to comeby, costing 80pds and stink frame at galleons shop just to make but it is much better than Aura Field. Aura is your cheap backup if you can't afford this. -Units: 502,501, Cent Ability (See RAcast Equip section for details) ADEPT: This works alright for RAmars that use Spirit S-rank Mechguns/Vulcans. Adds 20 ATA/ resistances and stats.... so not bad. Maxing Stats: COMING SOON RAmarl ------------------------- PROS: Decent attack magic abilities (Isn't crippled in EP 4) Best at solo in the game lvl 20 Support spells (INCLUDING JELL/ZAL!) Able to use Female only gear Highest EVP of all rangers Melee potencial given her DEF/EVP + High (de)buffs/resta Great with Spirit/Beserk Weapons Independent Bitchin' attack animations Can use Clio 250 materials! CONS: Worst attack power of all rangers Less effective in parties with forces (support outclassed) Frail HP-wise You know them RAmars will be always be tryina tap that sexy azzzzz Overview: What do you get when you cross a force with a ranger? A Fonger! Since that sounds extremely unpleasent we'll call her the RAmarl! RAAAAAAAAMARL! Great for losers with no friends or you badass lone wolf types. She's definately a raging feminist, she don't need no man to tell her how to run her life! OR SUPPORT HER! Bitch can solo all by herself, and insanely well at that! The downside of being any hybrid is always being in a party with either of your halves... A RAcast/RAmar will always outdamage you in a party, and a force of any kind makes your buffs obsolete. This doesn't mean you can't still support though! GIRL YOU DO YA THANG!! UH HUH! YOU KNOW THATS RIGHT JUSTICE! Every party always benifits from extra restas! Chances are you'll be partying with alot of noob forces so always ask what level S/D they have! Sometimes your buffs and debuffs will be better so act like a woman and SPEAK YO MIND GIRRRRRL. Hey this girl can still fight though. SHE GREW UP IN THE HOOD HOMIE! SHE KNOWS HOW TO HOLD HER GAT! You'll still be doing decent damage! After all you are a Ranger! Berserk away without fear my dear as a resta is always near! With your large TP pool, restas are like candy to you. CHEAP CANDY THAT YOU CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF. RESTA RESTA RESTA. Resta till you are restaing in yo sleeeeeep. But seriously, don't resta for little damage, you should still be somewhat conservative with your TP. Attack spells.... WOOO DADDY. You got em' girl. level 20 and ready fo dis honey to make dat money! Gizondes gifoies, rabarta and occationally rafaoie are all your friends. Frozen shooter/snow queen is still better than Gibarta/RAbarta so w/ez girl you can go either way. OH THATS SEXY U SAYIN DIS CHICKZ BI? Oh yeah shes bi. Force and Ranger she goes both ways..... Erm yeah... Anyway, VIVIENNE is your like your closest girlfriend. TAKE HER EVERYWHERE WITH YOU EVEN THE BATHROOM. This thing steals TP. If you are running low whip this little lady out and snake somea dat sweet sweet tp necter. Don't be afraid to shank some ho's wit dat excalibur too since you can heal off that berserk recoil. No woman should be caught without her shank. Or was that pepper spray? Whatever. Aside from being just so damn fine, RAmarls can equip Clio and prinicipal's gift parasol. Clio has HUGE MST, and you can be a psuedo force with it equipted. Zalure range increase by 1x. The Principal's Gift Parasol increases the range of RESTA/SHIFTA/DEBAND by x1! This is extremely helpful because you won't have to rush over to your party members to support them. Using these weapons is KEY to being a great support RAmarl, and the MST/Zal boost of Clio aids your soloing exponentially. Keep in mind (haha pun) that Clio requires 900 MST so you might not be able to equipt it for some time depending on your material build. I will suggest one that gains it early on. Not even HUnewearls get to use Clio, so you really should try to get your hands on one. -To find: EP4 ult Greenil Astark... or Purplenum Kondrieu Optimal Gear: -Shield: Red Ring/Ranger wall: See RAcast for description -Armour: Virus Armour/ Leutenant Mantle: See RAmar for description -Units: V101/502: See RAcast for description ADEPT: This is a must have for RAmarl. This decreases your TP consumption and increases all of your stats by 15 (ata by 20 past base)... Just get it! V801: Use this for faster spells~ Pretty basic. =) MAXING STATS: COMING SOON RAcaseal... ------------------------- PROS: Can melee okay Best DFP in the game High HP, DEF and EVP make her a tank (IF you even consider this a PRO) Traps/Trap vision Can use female gear? CONS: Low Attack power Terrible placement of stats (Ranger TANK? WTF) No spells Horrible Trap Build (specializes in confuse) Low ATA No cool ramarl attack animation Can't use Resta Can't use Virus Armour Cannot SOLO at all! Completely dependant on buffs to have any attack power Useless in parties even though it needs them Overview: Don't pick RAcaseal it's the worst class in the game. ... Okay so that isn't good enough for you? You need to know why? Okay we'll play your game. Think of a Hucast. Now take away his sword and give him a gun. Make him weak as hell. Now you have a good idea of what playing a RAcaseal is like. It's like you have all of the downsides of being a RAcast without any of the positives other than traps and even that you fail at. (RAcaseal has the worst trap builds of all the robots IMO HAVING THE WORST FREEZE TRAP GROWTH) You have nice EVP THE BEST DFP, and great HP. SO WHAT? You're a friggen ranger, the point is to never get hit? WHY THE HELL WOULD THEY GIVE A RANGER THE BEST DEFENSE IN THE GAME IF HE'S NOT SUPPOSED TO GET HIT? You're in theory supposed to be shooting the enemy. You have the defenses of a hunter with shit terrible attack power! How does that ever make sense!? Mr. Justice.. at least we have Vivienne! F*** VIVIENNE! YOU HAVE NO TP RENDERING IT USELESS. You can melee decently because of your def, but that still doesn't change the fact that you have NO ATTACK POWER. Use Excalibur if you MUST melee... but serious ZERK SUCKS ON RACASEAL. You don't have resta and you have no attack power. How feeble. People will think its cute that you are trying to do damage though... WHO AM I KIDDING.... FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DON'T CHOOSE THIS CLASS UNLESS YOU WANT A CHALLENGE. What's the point of a wall if you can't use resta??? Why do we even need a meat sheild? WAIT THAT DOESN'T EVEN MATTER BECAUSE WE HAVE A SHIELD ON OUR ARM. RAcaseal is useless w/o buffs and even still useless with them. A RAcast AND RAmar outclass it by far... and the RAmar has its own buffs and good ATA. It's just like.... WHY? WHYYYYYYYYYYY WOULD THEY MAKE THIS CHARACTER. SHE'S AS BAD AS THE LIP SYNC IN THE SONIC ADVENTURE CUTSCENES. Can I say it like this: TL;DR VERSION RAcaseasl HAS TANK ABILITY WITH NO RESTA, AND HORRENDOUS ATTACK POWER WITH NO SPELLS That's all you need to know about RAcaseal. If you are a machocist and you MUST play her just read my overview for RAcast but ignore all the parts about it being good. You're a mentally challenged RAcast basically. maxing stats: COMING SOON So yeah! That's all the time we have for today Check out my other guide if you haven't already! I'll be adding the Material Builds and best ways to Max your stats for each class soon!

Well this is a possible trailer I came up with xD http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFsUTaIE-dg&feature=youtu.be Watch in HD

Hai Faivu~

It happened to me some times, until i realized that the problem is when I switch characters... I had a character with the joypad mapped, when i changed to another character it worked, just fine, but when i changed the characters again, the controls had reseted. What you need to do is map your pad with all your characters, otherwise if you have mapped the pad only with one character, the reset thing will aways happen.

Get out of my lobby haha

My 1st Ultima Finds... That moment when you feed your mind mag one Dex by mistake... That moment when Falz drops a red item Fighting stances at boss's.

I want to have an open Team Speak 3 server up for all Ultima players if anyone is interested in this just message me. Anyone should be able to access it through Team Speak 3, you should be able to find it through a search feature being called PSOBB, that should bring you straight to it. If you want to put in the address it is crimson.typefrag.com:4595 I want to stress that this is NOT a team specific feature this is open to all of Ultima. This program is good to help you get through to other players right away even if you don't use a mic it can be useful, there is also a chat ability in the program. This is not an official server program through Larva etc. It is just a feature I, myself want to bring to the server that I have enjoyed for years. All of Ultima is welcome from Admin-new players. I hope to be able to be able to bring on a richer PSOBB experience for all.

Yeah, I'm quite aware, but the way I see it, you should still include them for players who have gone past the beginner stage and are still seeking more advice. And I used to always follow higher level guides as a newbie, as it let me know what I should be trying for.

Thank you Zynetic. Your nerdy input is always welcomed! But keep in mind Zyn this is a low-level guide... much advanced things like Zal needles I haven't included as it would be useless information for many who play on ultima .

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