Ye Olde Ranger Chains

[Dacian]

For those people in the stages of beta that had the 3 ability + 3 bridge = 27 finisher chains, I dug this up from my archives. Guess I must have created it at some point and then I added one of the backgrounds someone created.

For those that didn't know about it: Rangers at one point in time had a set of 3 opener attacks that also acted as finishers, along with 3 bridge attacks. So a total of 6 abilities that lead to 27 different finishers (which I never got the change to log them all, so didn't include them in my image). It was a simplistic system that lead to incredibly complex gameplay based on what finishers you were trying to put out (and this was back when you didn't need to crit to use a finisher, just follow the opener->bridge->finisher cycle).

Anyways, just a throw back to what could have been *sniff* R.I.P.

[Wild]

Aye, I loved those chains <sniff*> <mourns>

I've never heard a definitive answer as to why we lost them, but I suspect it made us too overpowered. Certainly, a LOT of classes had Ranger envy at that point in our development <nods>

Talisker and Avair have been doing a lot of REALLY great things for us and I'm sooo glad that they have a heart for us!

P.S. I made this chart based off of Talisker's post (verbatim). It REALLY *was* quite awesome.

P.P.S. I miss hate ... having no taunt makes Rangers cry. Well, makes Healers cry....

[Aeronis]

The crit based finishers are more balanced, but this has had the downside of forcing every melee class to max DEX to take advantage of finishers.