Plainswalker vs Silverranger

Besides the obvious (melee vs ranged) what are the big pros and cons?

melee=fun, ranged=repetive and boring.
i hate point click style of archers

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dagger melee=sneaky combat, sneak up on enemy and dispatch them

ranged bow=pwnage from afar

I like point and use skills style of archer.

SR since prelude!!!!!!!!! SR takes most skill out of all archers IMO. PR work as glass cannon...mage like archer lol. HE pwn to much which=no skill IMO. Especially with those Nostromos which can just spam potions -_-

How much faster is it to level with a PW vs a SR? Is a SR more viable at a lower level?

sr will be more expensive at the begining - but essentially easier to level as u go on because you kill the mob before it gets to u (ie no hp loss)

if u have buffs/healer then either - but generally ranged attacker kill faster in this game because you don't have to move to every mob

with out having to go into every last detail.

PW > SR....back stab wins when SR tries to kite.

SR = 600 range if they do rapid fire (if thats the right skill name).

whats annoying is how easy it is for a SR vs a PW...PW imo relays on small parties for XP, and don't make money grinding, not like a SR can with 1-2 shoting mobs with a bow crt.

but having grinded a HE a few times, PW is much more fun then the monotonous grind fest that archers have.

Hmm... most of my dagger friends rerolled in C2 - The Age of DaggerNerfs, but I've known a lot of silver rangers.

Most SRs that I know leveled really fast, were able to solo, etc. And archer parties are great, they kill really fast and make loads of xp. They're also really good in pvp - they're often sent ahead to scout out areas at sieges and so get more pvp in than other classes. However, it's expensive to be an archer because bows use more SS per hit than any other weapon. Plus you have to factor in the cost of arrows, however minor that may be. (At least my friends were always complaining about how expensive it was... maybe they were just whiners tho. :p)

The last couple of updates have resurrected daggers from the nerf grave, so that's a more viable option now as well, but I still don't know many. Sorry I can't help you much there.

archers r only xpensive up to b grade, after that its like the cheapest DD to lvl, part from aoe users imo

I would say nukers are cheaper to, apart from Necro perhaps.

I loose money when leveling normally with shots and normal alacrity pots and ocasionally use heal pots if i'm not with a healer/buffer.
I think most classes do, when you calculate how many shots you consume on a mob and see what it drops, you end up with a little over what the mob drops in consumables....
Manor and quests redeem me quite a bit, but i've yet to be able to turn in anything i got from manor for quite a while now... grrr.
And so you realise that if you were to play from scratch (so noone to sell things to initially and/or make adena off) you'd have to kill with no shots or pots to make adena from drop + adena quests (LOL).
Great.

Anyway, I like PW alot, i don't think i would've disliked SR, but i find playing PW a whole lot of fun. And they are very good in pvp end game so...

but having grinded a HE a few times, PW is much more fun then the monotonous grind fest that archers have.

That's because the area you grind in is way too easy ^^ harr harr