Ranged weapons and gameplay

This topic is mainly for the Ranger(and mage) class!

Maybe I am alone with this, but i would really appreciate it if we could augment ranger abilities to gain extra range.
I think it would make an interesting playstile to focus on range and slow heavy hitting abilities for a ranger (ranger/ranger is called hawkeye and would make a good class for this idea).
The focus here would be to deal heavy damage in short time windows, before disengaging and setting up another position for another chance.
This would maybe not be the best stile for straight up PvE, but put more focus on open PvP, castle defense and ks-ing boss kills in the open world.
What do you think of this idea? Should a class be possible to enhance the normal max range of their abilities and autoattacks through augmentation or not?

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Damokles

Okay guys here is what I thought of:

First things first:
I assume that the normal max range is 30m and that the "normal" deadzone for Rangers is 5m.

Hawk Training(Passive): Increase your max range by 10m.

Sniper Conditioning (Passive): Increase crit chance by 20%, if you take damage, your damage and movementspeed is lowered by 10% for 5sec.

Longbow Combo:
Target an enemy and use your bow to strike with a devastating blow. Deals piercing damage and powers up focus. You can charge the shot to deal extra damage.
Can only target enemies at least 10m away from you.

Hawkshot:
Deal x amount of physical damage to a target that is at least 20m from you. If fired from max distance, the attack recieves a 50% crit chance.
Cooldown: 10sec

Longshot:
Charge up a shot that flies forward in a straight line. Range increases with channel duration. It hits the first enemy it reaches.
Cooldown: 15sec

Arcaneshot:
Empower the next attack to deal additional Arcane damage, and root the enemy for 1.5sec
Cooldown: 15sec

Focusshot:
If your focus is at least at 80%, use up all your focus to channel an empowered attack. The empowered shot cant miss your target.
Cooldown: 20sec

Marking Arrow:
Fire an arrow at the enemy to enhance the next attack against the target.
Cooldown: 30sec

Stalking Stance:
Only one stance can be active at a time.
Stalking Stance lowers your movement Speed by 70% and reduces the enemies chance to detect you with detection abilities by 50%.
Cooldown: 1min

Concentrate:
Root yourself to the ground, enhance max range by 15% for 20sec. If the caster is hit, then the root is broken and the caster is thrown to the ground.
Cooldown: 1min

Eagle Eye:
Enhance your senses to deal +300% damage on the next three attacks.
(That is from an actuall skill that we know that a ranger already once had: Snipers Eye. Snipers Eye Summons a zone around you, while in this zone, deal +200% damage for ALL attacks and that is on level one)
Cooldown: 5min

All of these attacks are at least based on already known off Ranger attcks from the wiki.
I even had to nerf some of them... (Longshot comes from Power Shot that hits all enemies in a line, Eagle Eye comes from Snipers Eye which seems really op tbh, Concentrate is the opposite of sprint)

Azryil

I think it would be interesting to have a saboteur type class that specializes in traps and explosives, similar to how Rift handled their saboteur. This would be a class that could deal very high burst damage with the downside that if they weren't able to detonate charges they would do little to no damage.

Damokles

@arzosah
I somehow really like that idea xD
The idea is good, but what would be the downside on it? They could turn areas into a minefield, but loose single target abilities in turn?

I really liked the Legion Survival Hunter, with his explosives and throwable bombs etc It gave him something unique. They could have tbh leant into it some more.

Azryil

@damokles the biggest downsides would be that traps would take a fair bit of prep time and explosives would do nothing if you or your target dies before you get a chance to detonate.

Damokles

@arzosah
I now really want to see a group of saboteurs defend a castle *start WW II music*

CROW3

To be fair, a sniper is just someone who 'shoots from a concealed position.' Distance or accuracy isn't really a key attribute. A Ranger / Rogue is more of a sniper. A Ranger/Ranger could benefit from increased accuracy, power, and distance as more of a 'marksman.'

Damokles

CROW3 wrote: »

To be fair, a sniper is just someone who 'shoots from a concealed position.' Distance or accuracy isn't really a key attribute. A Ranger / Rogue is more of a sniper. A Ranger/Ranger could benefit from increased accuracy, power, and distance as more of a 'marksman.'

Well, the Ranger/Rogue is called a Scout so I really think of him more as someone that constantly harrasses his enemies, while staying on the move.

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