Update on rogue ranged weapons?

[Laxlez]

You see.. I've got this nice pouch for my daggers and darts, but rogue ranged weapons are not yet in the game.. I'm not bitching, I was just curious as to how the development of rogue ranged is progressing, since I haven't heard anything about it since archery came in..

A simple answer would suffice.. preferrably more than "we're working on it," but I'll take what I can get

-Laxlez

[Yayaril]

I still have over 500 darts that I bought the second week the mud was up. Anyone want to buy some antique darts?

Yayaril

[Shevarash]

"We're working on it."

"Soon."

"I'll look into it."

Take your pick

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[Guest]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Yayaril:
<B>I still have over 500 darts that I bought the second week the mud was up. Anyone want to buy some antique darts?

Yayaril</B></font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Not if they smell as bad as I think they do.

[Dlur]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Shevarash:
<B>"We're working on it."

"Soon."

"I'll look into it."

Take your pick

</B></font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

You forgot "Coming Soon!" as in Forage: Coming Soon!

ghimok

[kaitos]

Laugh.....

[Ashiwi]

I still don't want rogue ranged. It just doesn't seem as suitable for the rogue class. Can't I hold out for my 1h whip skill?

[Laxlez]

Throwing knives and darts (possibly poisoned) doesn't fit in with a rogue class? It's something that I've looked forward to playing a rogue.. the way I envision it, it'll just be used strategically, not as a mode of battle like archery.
And what Ashiwi said gave me an idea.. Rogues could have a choice ala specialization.. Ranged weapons.. or 1h misc.. or maybe even something like garrote.. It's already set up so you can spec in ranged.. and I don't think it'd be too overpowering to allow 1h misc to have a higher cap if you specialize in it.. or to allow garrote to work a little better if you specialize in it, etc.

-Laxlez

[Treladian]

Laxlez: As interesting as letting rogues or many other classes specialize is, it's something that seems to have gone the way of the dodo. Mages no longer choose a specialty at a certain level and instead start out as a specialist of sorts, druids and shamen are now specialized in their nature and spirit spells respectively, and during the discussions on rangers started by Miax WAY, way back, proposals to let rangers choose between melee and ranged were answered with "no." While it's not as interesting in terms of making a character unique, it is understandable from a balance standpoint. It's much easier to ensure that each class winds up being useful for its primary and secondary functions if their primary and secondary functions are more clearly defined.

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[Yayaril]

I do miss ranged combat and the benefits. By and by, do you think that poisoning arrows could be fixed- I tried to poison some of Weylarii's arrows and it didn't work on any of them- it kept telling me that I could only poison weapons..

Yayaril

[muma]

u know what would be cool is if rogues could throw like little stars as weapons (u know the kind ninjas use) and disguise themselves as ninjas and wear all black or something.