Oh great! Congratulations!!! Wow only rolled up in 2004--how did you manage 150 so fast. And I remember when you were in diapers...I feel so proud of you. So now what will you do?

I'm curious though--when you circled, did the guildleader give you a nice lecture and hug like they do when you circle 100? If not--they should! (GMs please note and code such).

::much hugging and kissing and pinching of cheeks, making Han blush::

Zinaca and her young raccoon, Shadow

Awesome job. Way to go, Hanryu.

Nice job Hanryu :)

I could have sworn you were a lot closer to 50,000 TDPs though. Weren't you aiming for that?

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~Leilond
http://www.elanthipedia.com/wiki/Leilond
http://soundsoftime.bravehost.com

<<<Hah, I don't think 7+ years is fast at all!>>>

Id have to disagree, but then I only play weekends. But then considering the changes over the last couple of years, and rangers being dumbed down to be more in line with other guilds, maybe not. I am more proud of 50th under Trev in two years, then I am of the 90+ circles I have gained since 1999. Good job though. Congrats.

Asterid

Han, really 7 years is fast, I think. After all I have rolled Zinaca in 1997 or early 1998 and am still not 150th. I wish Zairius would work. Any time I want to deflate my ego, I compute my current skills to the old ranger reqs. So far, I would be 10 circles lower at least.

But that doesn't take anything away from your achievement! And Han, please talk to a GM or 3 and see if they won't work up a little congratulations at 150th? I mean they really should! Even if the speech only ends with "Get out of here and I don't wanna see yer face again". : D

Zinaca and her young raccoon, Shadow who chitters madly at you as you run by---I think she is congratulating you but hey, my raccoon is pretty basic.

That's awesome.

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Victory Over Lyras, on the 397th year and 156 days since the Victory of Lanival the Redeemer.

Congrats, Han. I remember when you were just a tadpole. ;)

~V

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"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition."

- Henry V, William Shakespeare

>ask kal about exp

The guild leader says, "Not yet, not yet, things are not yet prepared for the challenge that you must pass in order to advance beyond this point. Come back another time."

Finally made it!

-Vision et al

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Also, I can shoot bees.

Congrats!!!

Drevid

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Cylons... why debugging matters.

Awesome. Take a victory lap around Elanthia.


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A baby sand spider crawls out of Alexii's silk-wrapped chainmail and crawls through a crack in the deck in search of its mother.
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(Tiso snatchs up the spider and sets it aside for later.)

Nice work, Vision.

(ps this post reminded me I had an excel sheet for you, check your play.net email)

~Hanryu Ves'Shomis
Sword of House Calibanor, Ambassador of the Ilithi Court, Emerald Knight, Keeper of the CEC, ... still a Ranger
http://www.kynevon.info/CombatEquipmentCompendium.xls

Congratulations, Vision!


Sometimes the key to happiness is not assuming it is locked in the first place- Ziggy

A journey of a thousand SMILES begins with a single step- Ziggy

I feel better about not training strength past 40 now. 5 favors. LOL.


~Dulcinia

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Not everyone comes here to hug and smooch and give pretend birth on the floor of the bank in Ratha.
-Galren Moonskin

Scouts do not allow men to kiss other men, for example, which in my mind is a huge limitation. ~Mvorn

>I feel better about not training strength past 40 now. 5 favors. LOL.

Haha yeah. Looking back, Skra was probably not the smartest choice all those years ago, but hey, I ran with it. My favor/death count is highly skewed, as I have a rezzing Cleric and Empath every time I die. :P

>If you had to do it all over again, what would you do different?

There are a few things I kinda wish I had done differently, and some of them I may even check out by backtraining. The first, though, is race choice. The S'kra reflex bonus was helpful, but definitely not worth the trade-off in int/wis in the long run. I have a Gnome Ranger that I play with sometimes, and we'll see how that choice compares.

I've had no issues with keeping strength low, once I get my disc/agil capped out, and work on my int/wis/cha some, I may revisit it. I tended to keep my stats pretty even up into the 50/60 range, and after that just concentrated on refl/disc/agil.

As far as skills are concerned, I have no misgivings about concentrating on combat so heavily- granted, with the proposed req change, I'd be pretty much screwed, but the 9/10th survival reqs seem to be much more reasonable for me to bring up, say, climbing/swimming/foraging to meet them. I'd like to train climbing and swimming up so that I can do things like climb to Shard and any new swimming areas they may open for travel.

In overall terms, I'd like to have more mech, and considering I didn't start training MD until 100th circle, I could have more of that as well.

I wish I'd spent more time keeping longbow up with my other two weapons, and taken up shield. A lot easier to do now with armworn shields available. Brawling, I could go either way on, but considering the difficulties backtraining when you bring it up, I'm ok with not training it. Having a blunt or even QS would be nice as well.

Overall, I'm happy with the way Vision's turned out. Maybe I could have explored the companion system a bit more, but honestly, there's not enough up-side to make it worth my time. I did get all the Beseeches, mostly for the titles, as they're not especially useful to me in everyday life either.

I'm taking some time to explore other Guilds now- I've already taken MM and Ranger to end-game, and I have a 100+ Empath, and like 80th Cleric. I'm trying my hand at Barb, and maybe I'll dust off my Thief to check out the new khri system, although those hard reqs in box skills just kill me- I'm not too hot on disarm/lockpick. I was even thinking of starting a Bard!

And... that concludes Vision's Thoughts on Life for today!

-Vision et al

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Also, I can shoot bees.

Vision - you mentioned wishing you had kept Longbow up, is that because of TDPs/Having another weapon really high, or you feel SB wasn't the right choice? My Ranger is currently LB main, in the process of switching to SB, so i'm kind of curious.

>I went sbow prime from the get-go, and never looked back.

A wise choice, I regret longbow.

>>A wise choice, I regret longbow.

Having a friend with near equal skills and stats only I use LB and he uses SB, I'm able to see pretty well the differences. I prefer longbow just because I land WAY more one-hit kills with LB than he does with SB. And while it isn't ideal for training, I train to pvp I don't train to train.


-Teeklin

I'm a bit late on the reply to this topic but is Vision apart of The Fallen, or with us regular Joe's in Prime/Platinum? Super impressive if not in The Fallen.

I came across wrong... It is still very impressive to reach 150 in any instance! What is the highest Ranger in Prime?

I am indeed in TF.

PS your check's in the mail Asterid

-Vision et al

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Also, I can shoot bees.