One thing to note, a lvl 500 barbarian gets 1300 in rage of fury (2S COD), while a lvl 500 ranger gets 650 in hellish volley (4S CD).

This is just a comparison class, I'm not even going to compare it to warlock.

I am playing activly my Rogue which is my second character and atm he is mid level. I had bring it to the highest level on Seasonal before Rogue was buffed. Also I have tested marksman at level 300 and level 500 on Test Server and I had spoke with some friends from the guild that plays Rangers, so I have some feedback about that class.

Thats why I would like to share with some ideas which could improve rangers -mid and -end game, although I think that after the buff which had place this year ranger class is really playable and nice, its not hard to make very good, close to best experience per hour on mid level's. And even on level 500 Marksman can make solo a huge experience on such monsters like (spoiler! ) Ice Throwers, if anyone want to have exact numbers we can make a conversation on priv.

The last thing that I would like to point before I will write my ideas for the rangers, is that the key is BOOSTING. Like in every game daily routine which is a full boosted hunt, sometimes two, is the key. I know one Marksman which was boosting every day, made very good, close to perfect equipment like I owned just few weeks after enchanting was implemented, and he made leveling crazy (almost like me xD ), to become the top ranger level before he made break from Zezenia, in less than a half year on a x1 server ( this is the fact aswell, look at the highscores or msg me in game).

Ok, lets get to the point.

1. In my opinion for the good rotation of spell for a Rogue, he should receive an additional spell, which already was a Rogue spell but after one update was given to the Marksman. I am talking here about spell SPREADSHOT. In my opinion Spreadshot should be a class spell, like HELLISH VOLLEY - so Rogue and Marksman should be able to use Spreadshot. It would help a lot in rotation of spells while luring and killing group of monsters SOLO and in TEAM.

2. Rogue spell LETHAL AMBUSH, which is equivalent to Marksman DEXTROUS SHOT, deals something like ~15% less damage and this 1 second casting delay is really annoying. I know that there must be some diffrences between the subclasses, so Marksman spell has 1 second cooldown while Rogue has 1 second casting delay, but the damege should be the same. Staff, please fix that.

3. Dear Staff, the balancing bring to the Rogue subclass many positive changes, but there is one thing You might forgot (maybe it was intentionally, but I will take my chance to point it one more time). I have in mind spell RUTHLESS EXECUTION. You increased power of BARBED ARROW, so the spell which had instant damage little less than Execution, now become more powerful on the first strike + it have addiotional DoT damage. Its great You reduce the cooldown of this spell, but now we have a situation, where BARBED ARROW have:
- less cooldown
- less requirement of magic level
- have additional DoT dmg
- and finally no HP restriction like RUTHLESS EXECUTION
have higher dmg damage.
Please fix it by increasing dmg of Ruthless Execution so it will be stronger than Barbed Arrow something around 15-20%.

4. TRAPS. Great and unique spell. I dont know how You guys, but I feel that Rogue have some cool, dark aura around him, spells are dark coloured etc. Thats why ICY TRAPS doesnt suit there :D Btw the description of this 300 level Talent is: "Greater area but slightly decreased damage". SLIGHTLY. The damage is not slightly decresed, its something like 20% if I am correct? ( I had it on my notes somewhere, but cant find exact numbers right now and dont have time to test it on Zezenia while I am writing, anyway its late here xD ). My suggestion would be to stay at the dark theme of Rogue ( its just my RPG suggestion ) and sprite of 3x3 TRAP should be the same as 2x3, and the damage should be the same. So conclusion is: 300 level talent should just give to the TRAP bigger area. Nothing less, nothing more.

4. Ricochet and Areal Dmg from weapon is really nice addition but in my opinion we can make something more for the whole class. I have idea to add to the HELLISH VOLLEY which is a Class spell a second wave of damage (like Shaman Hailstorm). I am not sure if better would be to increase the damage of Hellish Volley or to decrease its cooldown from 3 to 2 sec, but for sure it need a second wave, (33 or 50% dmg).

Those are my personal ideas, I spent a lot of time on testing my Rogue on many diffrent places solo and in teamhunts with my friends, writing thix text took me a while aswell, so I just hope its not so bad xD

I would like to invite to the discussion people that play RANGERS and have some expierience in playing it. For sure I will persuade my friends (which plays Marksman or Rogue) to share their thoughts and what can be done to improve the class.


Yours sincerely
Xplosion