BunnieSohee's Guide For Ranger 70-120 ( MAPLESEA + MAPLEGLOBAL TRAINING GROUNDS ) Content There are TOO MANY ARCHER GUIDES with the SAME BORING information. So i will not touch on level 1-70. Introduction to Ranger. 1 :Introduction : Im just kinda kinda not happy about the lack of hunter guides, Im a level 9X Ranger playing in MapleSea Aquilla and i think its time a voice from Aquilla stood out. Ranger Pros and Cons : Pro's -Good speed All you need is a + 10 speed snowshoes , Icarus 2 cape + 10 dex, a speed pill, and a +10 speed bow to make your speed 40. Therefore you land faster than Assassins and have a faster shot repeating rate than them. -High-damage and Good Skills A hunter has many skills that are a combinations of other jobs, for example,Strafe is a varation of savage blow WITH critical. Therefore you have stable medium high damage. Rain is like slash blast for a warriors pole-arm, but without the loss in damage per enemy hit. Inferno is like OMG!! It totally overpowers Fire mages explosion in terms in speed. And unlike Snipers ice shot, it has the ability to critical. -Good stalling ability Two stalling skills, Puppet and Hawk, while totally useless with higher level boss monsters due to the fact that they have massive aoe(area of effect) spells. It works very well and saves you thousands of mesos. Because one hit recieved in higher level dungeons is equal to one unagi or higher wasted. Hunters are useful in zakum for stunning the mobs zakum spawns out. -TOO MANY MOB KILLING SKILLS Just too many mob killing skills, you got bomb, rain and inferno, what else do you want? Con's -Archer is boring to train for 80 levels Firstly, youre using the same skill Double shot or Arrow blow for 80 levels, since level 1 strafe is not efficient and costs you more pots. And if you take Arrow rain and decide to train at forest of golem maps. You will suffer until level 82 before you master rain and start owning those mobs. -Archer items are HARD TO FIND(but rather cheap) I spend hours trying to look for my overalls and bows in the free market. -Archer is a upper-tier character The tier order goes this way. Dragon knight, Bandit, Sniper , Ranger , Assassin , Crusader/Knight, Ice/lit wizard, Fire/Poison Wizard, and Priest is in the lowest tier. This goes in the order of damage range.Therefore archer is not the best, But is still high up -Archer is straining on your fingers. Later ill be discussing on techniques for hunting. Consistently spamming jump strafe makes you out match assassin if youre good enough. -Lastly archer is lousier that SNIPER. No matter how i dont want to admit it, Snipers have way better damage. But we still look cool right xD? Hehehe. *The Misconception of archer is hard to train. Its harder than sins due to lack of jump evasion at level 40-60, but the speed of training is PRECISELY the same due to the same amount of exp needed to level therefore archers are NOT hard to train at all but its ONLY IN YOUR MIND that makes you not want to train archer. Comparing it with other classes... BANDIT class is the hardest to train due to lack of ranged skills and only a single hitting enemy attack which can be compared to any other jobs first job attack skill.And is easier to train at higher levels compared with a ASSASSIN due to the fact that archer has become a good handler in and out of enemy mobs. And you dont have to repetitively climb the ladder to hit one of Zakums upper hands. 2:-Techinques -Normal training techniques *The jump over small monsters,turn around shoot theory. This works for small monsters only. Example : Trapped in a corner with a agro'ed fire boar walking towards you. Simply Jump over it and shoot. *Momento Abuse(Movement) using monsters to intentionally propel you foward, which requires lots of practise.This involves a monster spawning directly on you, and pressing jump + a left or right direction and propels you forward a further distance.(pretend you got hit by a lupin banana in midair and thats the motion im talking about) *Momento Abuse part two Ever had a large monster spawn on you? Where you usually took 2 bump hits from it trying to get out from its center,Stone golem for example.Use the momentum by the direction it knocked you in to escape the second hit. *Invincibility frame abuse For example, in Santuary 3, where you see a Taurospear ready to poke you, just bump into a cold eye and recieve 70 damage instead of 1600 ^^ *Jump raining This method is the best way to lure and kill large mobs asap. Its equivalent to the mages teleport and cast. Unless mages jump cast and then teleport(which i dont see often).Just jump rain into a group of monsters and repeat cast it. *Rope Escaping Using a rope to evade damage from a charging attack(monster bumping into you), or an projectile. *Order of skills Close proximity to medium proximity to far away. Use Arrow rain to lure,puppet to provoke,and when the enemies are stalling in that other direction, you get to arrow bomb/strafe/inferno them at your own disgression. Using the correct skills at the correct time is very important. *Cliff Sniping Stand on an area where enemys cant hit you and... SHOOT *Knowing when to run Do not stick in a corner when you have a mob charging towards you. Monsters usually have a patrol radius of half a screen left and right from their target(YOU).Therefore if youre cornered with no mob hitting skill at close proxmity, you may have to waste potions just to get out. -Advanced Training Techniques -Jump Shooting (3 parts) Binding-The perfect button,SPACEBAR!! Its in close proximity within your probable keyboard setting. Mine is Z - Arrow Bomb, C - Arrow Rain, V - Fire shot, F - Puppet, X - Strafe. As you can see. binding jump to a common key with a big surface area is easier than haveing a cramped key setting like u,i,h,j,k,n,m. With j as your jump key. Finding the perfect key is important otherwise you may suffer from carpal tunnel syndrome(hand joint disfiguration) Technique- A jump shot must be executed with both buttons pressed at the same time in the same frame.A tap will suffice, holding it will just increase the effort needed to lift your fingers and hit them again. I suggest you try practising a light bounce of the keyboard with your fingertips.To save money, practise chair-hopping. This involves a chair(relax chair,sky-blue wooden chair). Press at the correct time, and you will see your character jumping without changing the animation to a jump animation, and you will see your character in the sitting position "jump".Jump shooting also saves the time you stop moving for 16 frames when you cast a support skill like Soul arrow. Timing- Jump shooting needs proper timing, not for the initial jump, but for the exact time you can do another jump shot again. You have to estimate the amount of time needed to land if you hit a monster. For example you jumps fowards into a mixed golem, and you have that knockback animation in the air where your character freezes for a frame without moving when the monster hits you. This lag time will cause you to lose out on a split second advantage with your ksing foe. Using Monsters/Background objects to propel you fowards. For example in the ice caves,using the geysers to knock yourself forward and slip past a mob. For me its like Spacebar+left/right + attackskill/support skill - REPEAT 3:-Known Bugs *Double Shot arrow bug One steel arrow left, one double shot, both arrows hit with +2 wa.Simple and NOT useful *Instant Kill Mortal Blow bug Kills enemy at hp not reduced at all occasionally. *Focus Hit Bug Sometimes a miss appears on you but actually you had taken the damage when the enemy missed you. 4:-Equipment for hunters. If you are rich Get a +10weapon attack work glove asap at around level 83-85(this is when you can afford) Get a +10 dex cape, prefarably an Icarus 2 so you can skip the points on THRUST due to the +10 points speed bonus. Get a 100 WA(weapon attack) dark arund or higher asap Scroll a +10 speed Greensnowshoe(7 slots) Since your chances of getting a +5 our of 7 is pretty high Get a Zakum helmet asap X_X +15 dex + 15 str is equal to 6 weapon attack If you are poor Just scroll a +10 speed Green Snow Shoe and An Icarus 2 and spam it with 100% cape for dex. 100% your level 70 overalls with overall for dex.(available at various scroll npcs) 5:-Skill distribution for Non-Thrust hunters 70 -Strafe (1) 71 -Strafe (4) 72 -Strafe (7) 73 -Strafe (10) 74 -Strafe (13) 75 -Strafe (16) 76 -Strafe (19) 77 -Strafe (22) 78 -Strafe (25) 79 -Strafe (29) 80 -Strafe (30) -Mortal blow (1) 81 -Mortal blow (4) 82 -Mortal blow (5) Arrow rain (2) 83 -Arrow Rain (5) 84 -Arrow rain (8) 85 -Arrow Rain (11) 86 -Arrow Rain (14) 87 -Arrow Rain (17) 88 -Arrow Rain (20) 89 -Arrow Rain (23) 90 -Arrow Rain (26) 91 -Arrow Rain (29) 92 -Arrow Rain (30) Puppet (2) 93 -Puppet (5) 94 -Hawk(3) (useful at"black squids" and death teddies) 95 -Hawk(6) 96 -Hawk(9) 97 -Hawk(12) 98 -Hawk(15) 99 -Hawk(18) 100-Hawk(21) 101-Hawk(24) 102-Hawk(27) 103-Hawk(30) 104-Inferno (3) This skill has good damage. Besides, what else is there to add x-x? 105-Inferno (6) 106-Inferno (9) 107-Inferno (12) 108-Inferno (15) 109-Inferno (18) 110-Inferno (21) 111-Inferno (24) 112-Inferno (27) 112-Inferno (30) 113-Puppet (8) 114-Puppet (11) 115-Puppet (14) 116-Puppet (17) 117-Puppet (20) 118-Mortal blow(8) OR THRUST IF YOU CANT AFFORD SPEED ITEMS 119-Mortal blow(11) Since mortal blow is techinically useless with rain. 120-Mortal blow(14) Depends if you play like me,or enjoy trying your luck with melee. Other builds involve subsitution of Inferno with Thrust, or Leaving puppet at 14 and maxing out mortal blow. But im just too darn lazy to list them all out due to the number of combinations available. This is my build, and there are other builds such as arrow rain first then strafe, for those people partying at mixed golems( sorry maple global people x-x this build is for you,since you dont have any high spawn mob maps yet^^) 6:-Skill assessment IN ORDER OF USEFULLNESS Silver Hawk This skill is an life saver,usually those spell casters such as vikings and grim watches are usually in their attack range. The range gradually increases by every mp increment. Strafe This skill is one of your only attack skills at higher level bosses. With an shot average at 7-11 thousand at level 90.Depends on defense of monsters too. Compared with Assassins Lucky Sever Stacked with Shadow Partner, our arrows travel in a group of four, unlike the sins where it comes in a group of two. This gives archer a comparatively a faster edge on re-firing although sins have the claw speed on fast usually.If a assassin does not flash jump throw, you can win them on a one hit kill per monster basis at zombies etc.This skill can be compared with a bandits savage blow, as its many hits ensures stable damage. Arrow Rain This skill is either for you to stand on ledges in Ludibrium and shoot, or used as a crowd clearing movement skill.Combined with jump shot and lag, The range actually increases.Example :I can hit four mixed golems if i jump shoot but whereas i stand and shoot, i only can hit 3 in the same position.Jump shot actually increases the left and right width of the rain. I have personally tested this myself. Puppet If youre in an area where you can one-hit kill the monster, dont use this. Since you require to hit the monster first before it gets lured over to the puppet.This skill may also incur the wraith of spellcasters and you can use them to hit unsuspecting afkers(EEK!) if youre really pissed with them and their afking in a dangerous spot. Also, do not stand too near to a hunters puppet, as spellcasters will target it, resulting in you getting caught in the crossfire or in the area of effect. A proper puppet would be placed behind where the enemy is standing, or ON the enemy itself. This prevents yourself from getting hit from the patrol animation where it walks to the puppet if you place it BEHIND yourself.Placement is important or you will just be wasting your mp Inferno If you think Inferno is lousy, just compare it with a mages. Explosion maxed with 120 basic attack 60% minumum damage,and two times the range of a normal fire arrow. And the casting time is SLOW,REALLY SLOW, even with magic booster and element amplification. Which DOUBLES your mp cost. So its 50 x 2 = 100 mp gone. Hunters fire shot has a really fast shooting frame and travelling speed. Its as fast as a Assassins normal shot WITH booster. I cant compare the damage between level one Inferno and level 30 Explosion. Since i dont have much information about this skill yet. But with critical on a neutral monster. Its like 700 damage on a dark golem at level 94. With critical would be 2.4k and + another 100% of your damage minus defense? If firemage could critical with their Explosion, i would have made a fire mage. Fireshot is as fast as ice shot, but lacks the stunning ability of freeze. Since archers had stun ability for 2nd class. I guess this is just retribution. Compared with ice shot. Ice shot has a damage percentile of 140 while Fire has a percentile of 150 when maxed. This would mean that we would be doing 10% more than snipers although they still have that 0.2 decimal advantage in their weapon formula.This skill is under-rated, and im still testing it. Mortal Blow This skill is your 2nd Final Attack, since its free , makes your arrow look like a Arrow blow, has around the same damage of arrow blow, and changes to a yellowish spike if it instant kills. Theres a bug in all versions of maple(tested in jms and maplesea) Where you actually INSTANT KILL a monster at any hp(even 100%) and get get half the exp you can get. Just think of this as arrow blow if you accidentally press strafe or something too near to a enemy. Thrust This is your least important skill in maple, firstly with good equips and passive speed adding bows at level 70.What more can hunters ask for? All you need is a +10 speed snow shoe, a +10 Gold Hinkel/Dark Arund/Metus, Icarus (2) cape and a speed pill and voila!! 40 speed with no jump. Unless youre gonna abandon fire arrow if youre not planning to train on ice based mobs and gonna add 20 points into thrust X_X(which i see no use in). i rather have the attack skill than the passive speed i already get when party with haste or from your equipment 7:-Places to train for Hunters/Rangers Solo locations 55-70 (prefarably with a cleric with full Holy Symbol) Zombie maps 3 and 4 Luster Pixies Hectors(60% cape for dex drop) Jr Yetis(60% glove for weapon attack drop) Pepes (Anything with around 135-190 per monster is good now) *70-80 Transformed Yeti(Master Jump shooting first) Zombies(one hit ko) Hectors(one hit ko) White Pangs(one hit ko) Buffy Soul Teddy(60% glove for weapon attack drop) Pepes (Anything with 190-220 exp per monster is good now) (Why 190-220? See reason below) *80-90 Ghost pirate(careful they 3 hit kill you probably) Death Teddy(Needs puppet) White Pangs Pepes Bains 90-100 Pirates and various vikings(Hawk needed) Phantom Watch(with solo priest party) Bains Black Squids(Maple Sea only) 100-120 Pirates and various vikings Phantom watch Bains Black Squids(Maple Sea only) Zakum(You must BE KIDDING if youre gonna try to SOLO this boss) (You can leech at least two boss forms of exp, the third form kills you in one hit.) Party Locations *70-80 Forest of Golem (mixed golem spawn of 12 per every 8 seconds)(victoria island) Average rate of 700-1200 exp per second in ACTIVE party *80-90 Forest of golem(victoria island) Cave of Trial 3(ossyria :el nath) YnPp(Yeti and pepe) Average rate of 700-2400 exp per second in ACTIVE party *90-100 Spirit Vikings(Ludibrium) Black Squid(aqua dungeon) Bains(rather slow now) YnPp(Yeti and Pepe) Average rate of 1895-3600 exp per second in ACTIVE party *100-120 Black Squids Spirit Vikings Grim Watches Death Teddies Thanathos(ITEM HUNTING ONLY) GateKeeper(ITEM HUNTING ONLY) Zakum Trial Runs Doom Flounder(good drops) Sharks(they can replace thanathos because thanathos spawn is low) I cant calculate the average exp at this level, since zakum give millions per arm destroyed @_@. Why 190-220 exp? Killing two pepes is more efficient than killing one werewolf. Killing two Hectors in two strafes is more efficient that killing a pepe in two strafes. Since 170 x 2 is better than 220 x 1. *EFFICIENCY Think of efficiency. Dont think just because your level matches the monster you can handle it. I recall my first time fighting thanathos and it was a total waste of money as in the time i took to kill it i could have killed 7-9 vikings and gotten 4 times more experience.The balls down to one thing, not monsters you can one hit kill, since its practically impossible to one hit kill a level 90 monster unless you can do 45k in one hit.Besides that, Thanathos has low spawn with only two per map or so and you dont get status effects from lower mobs. So KNOW YOUR LIMIT BEFORE YOU HUNT. *Item Hunting Only hunt items from monster you can kill, or suffer from major Safety charm losses. General Discussion Is power knock back that usefull? With Skills like rain and Mortal Blow, power knockback isnt that useful anymore. Is Mortal blow really a good skill? It serves as a close range final attack to me.The instant kill factor is useless, since you probably be killing the monster pretty fast with other skills and insane damage. Is final attack usefull? Youre gonna train 81 levels with the same boring skill if you dont have fa. Besides, the shot comes out pretty fast and can help you out in places where you can kill two monsters in a row with one shot(Fire boars?) Cuts mp cost by around 33% for 30 levels or more if you add it early. Crossbow or Bow? I would say Crossbow is better, in real life, the damage of an arrow depends on the persons arm length and arm strength to keep it steady. i prefer fiberglass bows because they have a more authenthic feel than a carbon one. A crossbow is easier to fire, harder to load, and painful for people with delicate fingers to cock.A bow allows a larger surface area so its less painfull to load it, but harder to keep steady. Inferno? Thrust? Mortal Blow? I know there are many other builds out there involving inferno at level 1 and thrust and mortal blow maxed. But in my opinion arrow rain PWNS Mortal blow due to its 150 x a maximum of 6 enemys. Unless you rather kill the enemies one by one which would cost more mp by strafing them to death. Imagine 6 enemys x cost of strafe. But imagine killing 6 enemies in 2-3 arrow rains. There are also full dex equipment sets out there so people might want to add +10 to thrust and get a Green Snow Shoe with +12dex +20 jump and +4 speed.(4 10% scoll passes * yes i seen this before) My build also depends on you wanting to spam the hotkey for your common ludibrium speed pill.(you can consume it while shooting,moving,etc) so it does not really affect delay except if youre desperately trying to save yourself in a life or death situation. Which comes down to your selection. Which potion comes first. Which potion to use second. Status Of MapleSea Maplesea is a vibrant community filled with gangster wannabees and level rushing "ah bengs and ah lians". The community is divided into 3 subclasses. Map Owners, Map raiders, And CC plsers. I consider myself to be a Map raider since i have no patience to look for a map to party with others and ignore cc pls because its more rude. Map owners are those people who are OFFLINE but actually in a way OWN the map like real estate. The maps that are most popular are forest of dead trees 1-4 and forest of golem. There are always map buying disputes and this is a infingement on intellectual property law and Maplesea gms are just standing there and watching. Also there are people who are 16 year olds or older with a mentality of a 6 year old. Use of the F word is frequent and at the slightest conflict they will usually insult your mother, your father, your siblings, and then your appearance which they obviously have no idea about.There are two idols in maplesea,Mryandao literally translated as mr Handsome and the other idol is shadowsin. Mr yandao is the highest level in Maplesea currently(i think) and shadowsin is a retired but used to be highest level. Mryandao is one of the most HATED character in maplesea because of his arrogance and shinanigins in maplesea, such as performing ksing services and harassing lower levels. This contributes to his wealth in maplesea and people fear of being ksed by him. I have met him in game a long time ago but he seemed docile. Shadowsin is a legend in maplesea due to his level BEFORE the third job came out. Now for the top guilds in maplesea would be TianDiHui,IndianTribe and Exodus. I know these guilds and have often seen them since they started out since the inital release of guilds, but their arrogance sometimes sickens me. As SOME of them threaten you with their guildname to kill-steal you. In maplesea, KSING is considered to be a crime to the PLAYERS. Since most of them are considered under the class of MAP-Owners where they actually PAY to own the map. Have you even seen anyone at 4 am hogging at zombie maps? I have. These special maps are Zombie maps 1-4, Cave of Trial, Forest of golem. AVOID THEM OR RISK HAVING YOUR ENTIRE FAMILY INSULTED BY 13 YEAR OLDS.lol... Lastly i would like you to give me info of any other maple server besides JMS and MapleSea Reasons to ks in Maplesea Im tired of answering this, ksing isnt a crime, nor is it considered harassment until you insult or defame(not literally minus his fame) him/her. In maplesea, we have forced party maps such as forest of golem and black squids. This means we HAVE TO BE IN THEIR PARTY JUST TO STAND IN THEIR MAP. Coming in is equal to an instant PLEASE CC or please change channel. Which is the equivalent of saying F'cuk off, im training here. In my opinion, this is a stupid gesture as maple is meant for the Public to play. The most common reason they tell me why not to ks them is "Oh i have 2x now please leave me alone". 2x is the 2x exp card. This gives me the impression that people in maplesea expect special priviledges after purchasing cash from asiasoft? WHAT utter nonsense. Ksing is misphrased in maplesea. In ragnarok online, it requires you to hit a monster a person is hitting. But in maplesea, a person standing in his lane even when he has not hit the monster, and you hitting a monster, is considered kill stealing. I have been reported for harassment many times, but how can someone harass another person without uttering a single vulgarity at them for the entire duration while its is them who has been calling you names and etc. The definition of pro is misdefined too, any godly item in maple is considered a PRO item. And people compare PRONESS via weapon damage,(oooo they pay great attention to numbers). Ksing speed and Equipment. I remember being flamed for wearing a level 70 overall when i was level 80. How to respond to ksers in Maplesea There are two types of ksers in Maplesea, attention seekers, aaaand hardcore bullies. The attention seekers usually f2 at you and ks you without uttering a word. This in my opinion is the most efficient form of ks. It gets people really pissed to see the f2 on your face. Hardcore bullies are those hanging out in low level areas, such as henesys hunting ground and mob killing the green mushroom for some weird purpose. *One, F2 back until the person loses intrest. When the person does not get any response from you if you keep silent, that will make him/her lose intrest very quickly. *Two, politely request that he move somewhere else. If he shows you attitude, ignore him and change channel yourself,as you would not want to waste time with losers like him. DO NOT USE THE WORDS PLEASE CC oR PLEASE CHANGE CHANNEL as it will "Agro" some players into ksing you for fun. *Three, Train somewhere else. At level 70-120 theres always a alternative monster for you to shoot. For example if youre being ksed at Jr yetis go to Luster Pixies!! Or even, if youre being ksed at hectors try white pangs!! How to earn money in mapleSea Scrolls scrolls SCROLLS and more scrolls. Not those cruddy scrolls you get in PQ, but by training hard you get at least one every two levels. In maple sea, scroll prices are HIGHLY INFLATED due to high demand and high availability.The fastest way to make money in maplesea is to make multiple accounts,train each of them to level 40(can be done in 4 weeks) and complete all the quests that gives you 60% glove for attack or 10%. This means either 2-3m for each character. And then they can put their eqips found in storage and delete the character and start over.(This may be considered abuse, but i dont think many know about it) Train at efficient places. Since monsters have a 60% chance of dropping money and an etc drop. So one shot one kill = 60% chance a money roll will drop. This means more loot and more chances of rare drops. Scroll Equipment and sell them at higher prices. Since godly equips in aquilla are high in demand. And each goes for about 4m-54m depending on the stats. We have high rollers spamming 10% scrolls on weapons these days.And high rewards if they suceed. Status of author My ign in game is BunnieSohee, youll find me at mixed golems hopping joyfully around in my bunny suit(yes i have one XD) If you have any questions feel free to ask me, ill write down your ign somewhere and respond to you asap. Please do not beg for items because i dont have anything valueble.I have a level 165 hunter in Japan Maple Story, and have 8 year of experience in the art of Kyudo(Japanese Archery).Therefore i think im overqualified to write this guide for you. Youll find me in other games such as O2jam and Ragnarok ONline under the IGN of Sohee or Sohee02.If you have any comments or find any errors please send a e-mail to kasugamio_sakura@hotmail.com this is also my msn address, and dont bother adding me unless youre a girl and very pretty because im a lesbian ^^.This work is under intellectualy property law of singapore and i only allow it to be reproduced WITH PERMISSION, only on these two websites... Hidden- street.net and mapletip. I will be producing videos as soon as i figure out how to edit stuff in FRAPS. And you can see clips of what i mean in the section for training techniques.I shall be posting videos under the name of Bunniesohee so watch out for them if youre curious about archer. This guide is solely based on experience and opinions after experience, if you would like to contradict me and if you find any grammatical,spelling,content errors , just send an email to the email address stated above. Additional Info I like food.