Career RNG Merits?

I've never been much for working on merits, but now that I am making RNG my main, I am finding it to be more of a necessity.

So for all you career Rangers out there, what should a FULLY merited RNG look like? What General, Group 1, Group 2, etc. merits should a career RNG focus on? Any tips/suggestions/discussion is helpful.

5/5 Rapid Shot
5/5 Unlimited Shot

5/5 Snapshot
4/5 Flashy Shot
1/5 Stealth Shot


At least, that's what I did. Can drop Flashy and Stealth for Recycle if you really feel you need to, but naturally, I don't recommend it.

Unlimited shot merits are pretty much useless now with double shot. But not like the other 3 in tier 1 are that good either

Given the price of the new bullets almost reccomend recycle lol. Or lvl alchemy and synergy

My merit choices may be outdated, I quit even before the Camouflage upgrades and such. Idk what Double Shot does besides the obvious, but if what I had mentioned is obviously outdated, just disregard it.

It gives you ~40% OAT for a minute and a half, but shares a timer with Unlimited and doesn't benefit from the merits :(

So there's really no point in Patriarch Protector's Arrow anymore?

I think there are higher dmg arrows anyways but yeah I wouldn't think 1 ws with one of those would outweight 40% OAT for 1.5 min unless maybe you had the OA2-3 gun

Too bad aeolus arrow is ra/ex lol. But antlion arrow isn't bad

Camouflage is a good one to go 5/5 in, get any enmity reduction you can. Beyond that, agreed 5/5 snapshot, 5/5 rapidshot, 4/5 flashy shot, 1/5 stalth shot.

The only times I've used Flashy Shot are when I'm zerging. It's not worth the extra enmity most of the time, and it really doesn't add that much more damage to your weaponskill. I would do 1/5 flashy and 4/5 stealth. Definitely worry about your enmity before your damage when playing ranger.

@Helel Typically on zerg mobs, we do anywhere from 3-5 per outing, so its handy to have the recast on flashy down to a point where I can use it when we repop the mob. I.E. Kirin.

If stealth shot merits reduced timer and gave a flat -20 enmity or some such, then I would say merit it out. Otherwise, It's not going to be your life saver.

This is what I did:
5/5 Rapid Shot
5/5 Sharpshot

5/5 Snapshot
1/5 Flashy Shot
4/5 Stealth Shot

I argue that Camo is too unreliable(since it can randomly wear while shooting) and I LOVE having Sharpshot active even more since it all but guarantees you won't miss a single shot while it's up. Rapid Shot's a no brainer just like Snapshot IMO. I didn't see much increase in DMG on Flashy and I doubt I will now with the level cap increases since all but Abyssea stuff will be at or below your level(isn't AV even 85 or 90?). I'm absolutely in love with Stealth Shot since it essentially gives a hate free WS every time the timer is up which almost makes me want to reconsider my group 1s to toss some in Camo but I don't think I could live without my precious Sharpshot merits!

Flashy Shot is good on anything that has a level difference of 10 or more. Otherwise, you want to focus on your enmity reduction and range attack haste.

Sure, Flashy Shot helps you ignore level difference penalties, but the amount of damage it adds once every 20 minutes (or 10 minutes if it where maxed) is a critical failure to what lowering your enmity to help you shoot more often would do in the long run.

Bout the only thing I use Flashy Shot for is a deathblow to try and be "flashy.' ....... and that's basically it. lol

I have 5/5 recycle merits

umad?

I did:
5/5 Camouflage
5/5 Rapid Shot Rate
5/5 Flashy Shot
5/5 Snapshot

The flashy shot is really just fun to play with in aby while exping... On NMs one should combo with camouflage and it will pretty much mitigate a fair amount of the enmity generation from flashy shot.

Really the only must haves are 5/5 Rapid Shot and 5/5 Snapshot... others are personal preference.

you're an Anni ranger and didnt go 5/5 flashy? Wasted a bunch of merits on stealth shots when you have coronach aftermath.

this is what you should have merited on Anni RNG:

Having Flashy shot on a ten minute timer is hardly ground breaking.

Honesly, its just 5/5 Rapid Shout, 5/5 Snapshot, 1/5 Flashy then after that do whatever you want as that's all you really need.

rapid 5/5
unlimited 5/5
snap 5/5
flashy 5/5 OR GTFO!

5/5 flashy isnt really needed as you areonly going to get one off per NM anyways.

i like flashy... all i do is NM's anyways rly nothing better to merit in group 2

Stealth shot is pretty nice to have.

nah im an oldschool rng the more u die the better rng u r... LOL

its hard to take hate in abyssea tho.. :-(

I said the same thing about blm's lol

5/5 Rapid shot
5/5 Camouflage
5/5 Snapshot
5/5 Recycle

Flashy/Stealth shot are hardly worth it.

Jishnu's + Kraken club with /WAR, or /SAM. Nothing will pull hate off of you... ever...

Has anyone done the math to see which is better? I'm not really sure myself WAR will put out much higher WS, but i'm not sure if the double attack trait slows down kraken clubs 2~8 occ attack. I've heard yes and no... While /SAM gives more stp, med, and sekka

-1 /wink

Gah, sweet jesus angels ._.;;