Ranger wan-... NEEDS.

[Superchicken]

Everyone will play RNG their own way. So to say a real RNG uses this weapon or that, is an opinion not a fact. In my opinion only gimp RNGs use Kraken Club. Yeah sure you MAY spam weapon skills more often, however and what cost? To make it so you actually hit a decent amount of time on that club you must sacrifice some Ranged Accuracy/Ranged Attack for melee Accuracy. Even if you macro the good Weapon Skill gear in, youa re still sacrificing a Weapon that would benefit your Weapon Skill better. Also, as Superchicken says, it only works IF, and only if, the mages can keep you alive from all the extra enmity. I'm sure I speak for many groups out there when I say the extra attention on a glass jawed job is not desired.

I'm sure at least one numskull who swears by the Kraken Club is going to try and rage and flame me for saying this, but that just proves the point that they truly are NOT a team player, which is what this game is mostly about.

you got at my point exactly. Everyone plays the job different. Yes i carry the staff as well. And what do you mean have to sacrifice racc ratk gear to get hits with KC. Of course, when you use a KC you have a melee tp set and then of course you have a WS set. You think WS in the KC gear? WS set is the same no matter if using KC or staff as main hand weapon. So the statement about sacrificing ratk and racc for melee acc gear is not even a factor here, cause if you are a KC rng you have a tp build consisting of haste and acc to build your tp from the melee hits of the KC. If i'm tping from bow shots then of course i'm using my Ratk / little bit of RAcc build for that (i dont need much Racc from gear as my merits and torque and some of the archery + gear is plenty).

And of course the KC is situational. It the situation can handle me beating the crap on it with KC and spamming Jishnu's Radiance and my mage can handle it then theres no way a Ranger who's using Ratks solely is gonna keep up in dmg when i'm cranking out WS's every few seconds. if the situation cant handle the massive tp feed a KC brings and me constantly getting beat on from all the enmity of ws spam then yes, i'm in the back pluckign away with Range attacks in my appropriate ratk gear.

Oh and i must add seeing RNGs walk around and shoot in all this Racc instead of Ratk and STR gear makes me ><. I will say this, REAL rangers have merits in their weapon of choice. I've never ever had an issue on RNG where i need to stack Racc in every slot like i see alot of rangers doing

The right to opinion is awesome and yes this is mine. Everyone plays their job different. There's RNGs who swear by /nin so they can dual wield two weapons for stat bonuses. I personally will not /nin as /sam and /war provide more imo. Their's rangers who /drg so they can jump their hate. We all know their comes commen sense when playing any job. Sittign there and spamming WS's or epeening out on those battles that last longer than a couple minutes is not very beneficial when you are laying face down from it due to your constant pulling of hate and you are spending more time dead/weakened than you are fighting and contributing to the fight