What is the advantage of choosing the same archetype as class?

What do I gain by going Ranger/Ranger as opposed to going Ranger/Fighter or Ranger/Mage?

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I've been brainstorming 'class fantasies', imagining what might set classes apart from each other and how they might have a focused kit that feels like a thoughtful fusion of two archetypes. With doubled archetypes I think the means reinforcing certain core elements of the kit rather then just upping the power of everything across the board. That will result in atleast some playstyle shift from the base archetype. Having that secondary should feel different from just 'leveling up some more'.

For example Ranger/Ranger Hawkeye could gain an incresse in their range above what archery normally allows (as far as I know a Ranger shoots bows the same distance as anyone else even when using their skills). So this gives you a bit of a Robin Hood fantasy and makes then unique even relative to the base archetype Ranger.

Dygz

Rippley wrote: »

So if Rangers already have snares and roots, what would a RANGER augment on a RANGER look like to you?

You could put a Snare Augment on Bear Trap - which would slow the target after the Root wears off, thereby increasing the time of the CC.
You could put a Root Augment on Mark of the Tiger.

nanfoodle

Dygz wrote: »

Rippley wrote: »

So if Rangers already have snares and roots, what would a RANGER augment on a RANGER look like to you?

You could put a Snare Augment on Bear Trap - which would slow the target after the Root wears off, thereby increasing the time of the CC.
You could put a Root Augment on Mark of the Tiger.

So many assumptions, so many guesses

I just really hope all 64 options are meaningful and compelling.

Caeryl

It was described at doubling down on the class strengths, so for Ranger I'd figure they'll have increased accuracy or added range(r). Fighters a higher weapon damage scaling and more resilience. Bard an additional concurrent Melody option.

Things like that

Depraved

WumpusAmungus wrote: »

What do I gain by going Ranger/Ranger as opposed to going Ranger/Fighter or Ranger/Mage?

you double down on your class instead of tilting the scales towards something else.

for instance, a cleric / cleric might have more healins than a cleric / tank but less cc or survability, or less damage than a cleric / rogue.

we also have to consider elemental damage.for example, a ranger / ranger might get more nature damage but a ranger / rogue will change his damage type to dark.

RocketFarmer

My view is that the secondary archetypes should represent those signature abilities for the class. So going Cleric-Cleric (High Priest) means you gain access to what a High Priest is known for, and that’s probably influenced by Race and Deity.

It means fleshing out what each class is supposed to mean/be. The class names should help sort that out.

Secondary augments could do a number of things:

1 - Replace a primary ability with a base ability from the secondary archetype
2 - Enhance a primary ability to make it stronger
3 - Add to a primary ability with a major secondary effect
4 - Improve the primary ability and add a minor secondary effect
5 - Alter a primary ability to fit the style of the class
6 - Add to the base abilities so that the player may use both the original primary ability and the secondary ability, but the player has to swap out another base ability

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