Power Rangers: A Guide To Pewing

Someone on the forums once said don't put aluminum siding on an outhouse when talking about getting RMEA when not having other good gear. While I'm not calling your gear an outhouse it is a funny way to think of things.

When you're starting out, it's very tempting to just go for the big weapons. But if you're wanting to optimize your time and gil spent vs reward, an endgame weapon or HQ abjuration armor/HQ crafted accessories should be at the end of your list not the top. I was pretty obsessive in going over all my gear options vs my current, then assigning them a % value increase over my current dps, and then having a ratio of % value increase over cost (which includes time converted to gil per hour) to determine what to chase next. That and planning it is the best way I know how to gear up and something I still follow today (for reasons like this I still don't have AG nirvana cuz it only adds staff skill for SMN which does almost nothing for dps and costs 100 mil).

Doing all of that work, vs your current gear, and the changing gear, is a lot of planning. There isn't really a simple answer as the game always changes and I don't know all your current gear. I will say that the Orion +3 set is amazing but the Orion +1 set is about... what 3 years old gear now? And I'm not sure it was great even then, at least for dealing damage. Keep it for the JA though and to eventually upgrade.

Here's what you should prioritize:
1) Getting a good preshot set with at the very least, capped snapshot with flurry I. Attack speed is the #1 contributor to dps as it affects your white damage and tp gain very directly.
2) Get a good midshot set. For ranger this means, STP, Ranged Accuracy and Ranged Attack in about that order.
3) Get a good WS set. This will depend on what WS you are using.

Take a look at Pursuer's gear from Zi'Tah (Edit: as well as Meghanada +1 and Mummu +1 sets from Ambuscade). That gear is a stepping stone to Sky Abjuration armor and eventually reisenjima armor. Also get your relic hat ASAP, and use it in your midshot set, and empy body and use it in your preshot set. Meganada +1 especially actually has some use in a few endgame sets so getting that should be a priority as well.

Down the line, when your sets are optimized to the point they can support and gain a lot out of a 160mil investment in a relic, that's when you should aim to make one. Otherwise, you will be left in embarrassing situations where a non RMEA ranger contributes more than you and people give you odd long looks, try to remember that while a very important slot, the weapon slot is only one of 16 slots and all slots contribute a lot to damage. Before the 119 III updates, a lot of RME would actually only add about 6% to 8% dps, now that number is a lot higher, but you should still look to have a great foundation for an endgame weapon or it just won't perform. I wouldn't suggest making any RME until you have at the least, sky abjuration armors, relevant relic and empy pieces, and some great augs on herculean armor, as well as relevant accessories from Escha, Vagary, quests, and other content.

It's more about the journey than the destination, any job is never done, and there's always more you can improve on, the nature of MMO's is a continuous grind that never ends but you get never ending self betterment out of it. If you accept that mentality, it'll probably do you more good than anything else I could tell you.

Is the first post of this guide a updated place to look for my precast guide?

Also, what exactly is "precast?" Like is that the gear you equip before you attack? And then do u have that equipped most of the time u till you do a WS?

Anyone got a working gs for ranger? Mines won't equip snapshot set before firing....

Nope the guide isn't updated.

Precast just goes back as a term to the spellcast addon, precast would be fast cast for spells, then your mid cast would have potency. Ranged attacks work really similar in having pre and mid shot sets, so you often see people call it precast as well as preshot because that's still how you define it in gearswap as the precast set.

Every shot you equip snapshot, velocity shot, rapid shot when you start firing then before your hit lands you need to have midshot stuff on, which is everything but attack speed stuff.


My folder has one, it's not simple but it does work very well for me and quite a few others:
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/83q4ryw51rdrq/DPS_Spreadsheets_and_Gearswap

What's a good goal, then, for Preshott gear I should be getting as my first priority

Anyone mind showing me a good Trueflight set? Attempting kei and hasn't been going well.

Anyone mind showing me a good Trueflight set? Attempting kei and hasn't been going well.

Would a good AGI/WSD Herc still not beat 33-35mab?

Max mab on the daggers.

Would a good AGI/WSD Herc still not beat 33-35mab?

Also maybe worth mentioning that even with garbage augments, base Malevolence is still great. I've yet to see a single capped Malevolence, but my two mediocre ones are still ahead of the next best option.

This is my current set:
ItemSet 344228

If no storms then you can use sveltesse gouriz +1 instead.

It's not perfect because perfect herc augs hard to come by. I shoot for 33-35 mab and decent magic acc. WSD is a bonus.

If you're 3k TP replace moonshade with Ishvara or Novio.

Perfect herc beats Samnuah in all but macc, but gl getting it. Also Orion +3 head will outperform all but the very best Herc I just don't have it yet.

This is my current set, Gyve is there until i get much better augments on Herc, which i have really shitty luck with. When you say "Perfect Herc" what's the values on that? I cant seem to get anything above 25mab/macc.

Draylo has one of the best, if not the best, herc heads from the DM campaign. 10%ws dmg and high 30s mab along with 10agi i think. Check out the dm aug thread for some sad panda face for magical ranged ws pieces.

Also I wouldn't consider wsd just a perk. Will vary somewhat but 1 wsd will be worth about 3-4 mab. So like I have a 28 mab 5 wsd piece that should beat out any pure mab aug outside of dm augs. That said I haven't had a single DM aug that beat my normal ones yet :(. And my normal are far from perfect

When you say "Perfect Herc" what's the values on that? I cant seem to get anything above 25mab/macc.

Is gastraphetes significantly better for trueflight than fomalhaut? Looking at the new delay models the lower delay seems to cost it significantly. The tp bonus is not far behind the 30% boost unless saving 2250+ tp to waste part of it. Numbers assume moonshade.

1000 tp - 28.6% boost from tp bonus
1500 tp - 24.7% boost from tp bonus
2000 tp - 21.8% boost from tp bonus

dmg:321 on gastra/quelling vs dmg:444 on fomalhaut/devastating makes up a pretty big portion of white damage

with just snapshot the delay difference is 2.88 sec on gastra vs 3.3 on fomalhaut, with rapid shot and velocity the difference shrinks even further(and might even be effectively identical due to packet delay)

furthermore, at 154 base tp it's difficult to 3hit a gastraphetes(seeing no store tp in that ws set, so all you get is a 50 stp sam roll putting your ws return at 231, you'd need 68 gear stp with a 50 stp sam roll to 3hit.. and if you assume a worse sam roll it gets a lot harder)

fomalhaut is comparatively easy at 169, same example gets 270 back from ws and needs 27 gear stp(really 37, but fom itself has 10).. meaning tons of overflow tp when using a 3hit with sam roll and ability to compensate for no recycle procs
having such a low stp requirement also allows you to make up the aftermath stats via gear swaps

has a proper comparison been done using all the current information available to us? not saying fomalhaut is better, but there's an awful lot in it's favor that seems to have been overlooked just by virtue of gastraphetes having the trueflight boost..