Noob ranger - skillup locations?

[Alderin]

Noob ranger. Having fun so far - Archery / Marks is sitting around 240 each. Everywhere I go is either extremely slow (having to run away every time a worm decides to -ga me). Every mob I can get reasonable skillups on (0.4-0.5's) can kill me fast if I am in lazy skill-up mode.

Ideas?

[esoR]

low delay xbow/bow, sleep arrows/bloody bolts, abyss uleg. that should serve well for your purposes.

alternatively, try fortalice in castle zvahl S. they cap arround 330/370?

[Lokithor]

^ This.

Get yourself a Loxley bow, which is the lowest delay for archer PLUS it has a bonus for accuracy, which is handy when skilling up, and spam sleep arrows at worms in Aby Ule while using skillup food. It's a pretty easy RaEx bow to get that drops from a mid level NM in Quicksand Caves.

For marksmanship, get a repeating crossbow (<100K on AH) and do the same using sleep bolts. You'll get great skillups with very low risk.

[esoR]

fluid crossbow is another option, not as good but it's free from abyss

[Alderin]

Ah right cheers. Thought fortalices capped around 250 but I guess I am wrong. At the moment I am using a Repeater Crossbow & Lamian Kaman but will go pick up the ones you suggested.

Have been using sleep bolts / sleep arrows - until I bled the AH dry. Thanks for the tips though.

[Lokithor]

The fortalices will cap at whatever skill level applies for a level 82 character. For ranger, that means 306 for archery and marksmanship. Lamian Kaman is the best AH bow you can get for low delay but the Loxley is quite a bit faster. The time it takes to camp one will probably pay off in net overall time to cap your skill.

[esoR]

loxely is fun to claim stuff with. lower delay than most daggers, you can almost outclaim someone at range with it vs a JA (with a shorter range)

[Alderin]

Cheers for the tips again guys.

Skill ups started to slow down on fortilaces once I hit about 260 - which sounds like 306 is more like the cap. Ended up using Lamain til 300. Will finish it off when I am EXP'ing I think.

The worms worked great post-260. Skillups were too slow on them before that though (maybe I am just picky). I tried this before I even asked on these forums however I wasn't getting any skillups at all under 260 - even with consistent hits.

Anyways cheers guys. Think I will camp the loxley just so I have a nice bow to pull with if it is ever needed.