Starting Fresh as a Pure Ranger

[Affliction]

So I started an alt named Daryl to be a pure ranger. Its kind of an experiment for me, though I know some have done this already. 

I wanted to keep a log of my attempt that I can update from time to time to see how I progress in case others want to try this themselves.

Getting Started:
To lay the foundation for my archer I subsidized him a bit at the beginning. I created Daryl and gave him enough GC to purchase all 3 of the ranging perks plus to pay for some negative perks.

My perks from day 1:
Power Hungry
Godless
Gelatine Bones
Antisocial
Ethereal Ranger
Wilhelm Hood
Sharp Shooter

I also gave Daryl a MM Cape and an Elven Bow. With these basics settled I was ready to begin my journey as a pure ranger... well almost.

 

Attributes:
I put 8 PP into Coord to be able to carry arrows. The rest of my PP I earned I dumped into reasoning. Once I max out Reasoning I plan to give myself a little more Coord to up my carry capacity and then begin maxing out Will. But that's for a future Affliction to worry about. 

As of now I am OA 34
Coord: 8
Reasoning: 46

Quests:
Before I could start shooting (because I didn't provide Daryl with any arrows) I needed to do the Bow Legged quest for Kyra on IP. Basically run around WS talking to people and return to her to get 1 Short Bow and 100 Training Arrows. This is the foundation for starting your Ranging journey.

This is the only quest you need to worry about at the beginning. There are 3 Ranging quests that give Ranging EXP, but you 100% want to wait on a Robin Tell Day to turn them in for double ranging EXP. 
But the quets starting NPC are
Vaesura (WS)
Osold (PA)

Wimmip (TG Magic School)

Doing these 3 quests alone and turning them in on Robin Tell Day will get you to Ranging lvl 24. 

Now, I did read a fantastic guide by An Elf you can read for yourself here.
There's TONS of helpful information in that guide and I'm not going to rehash it here. I'm loosely using it as a guide for my journey with 1 major exception. I will NOT use the ranging arena to level up. I don't care how badly I want to level up ranging I refuse to stand in an arena and shoot a target. I want to kill things. I want to hunt. I want to make a profit while doing it. So I'll be recording how that goes here. 

So now I have a couple of bows, I have 100 training arrows. I also have a debt of 50k GC that I intend to pay back to my main account. 

My goals at this point are simple. 
1. Make enough money with these 100 training arrows to buy more arrows.
2. Pay back 50k to my main.
3. Buy a Night Visor. 

So I begin
Shooting Stuff: 
Daytime I shoot beavers on IP, at night I shoot Rats in the IP rat cave. Rats give better EXP than beavers, but Beavers have a more profitable rare drop in the Beaver Token. 

I Got lucky in my first 100 training arrows and got a beaver token and a rat token. This set me up to buy all the training arrows I'd need for the forseeable future. 

At this point I've killed 1021 Beavers and 993 Rats. I've gotten 12 Beaver tokens as drops and 3 Rat tokens. 

Because of this I've been able to reach Goal 1 and 2 from above, and begin saving for goal 3, buying a Night Visor. 

I was being pretty focused on just grinding leveling and making money by selling my furs/bones/tokens, but I decided I needed to try to get my OA level up faster so that I could increase my attributes. 

So I began doing Novacs quest and Haidir Dailies as a Ranger. 

To this point (5/22/24) I am Ranging lvl 26. I have completed Novac's quest up to the Fluffy Bunny (I plan to kill it today). 

My levels and stats at this point in the journey: 



Plans for the future:
I really need to get the sigels to heal myself. That's a big issue. Also being able to teleport to portals room will be a big help just to speed up travel. I also need teleport to range to set myself up for pinning targets later in my training. But due to low health I'll never need restore or most other magic. 

Edited May 22 by Affliction