Gopha said:
wooo go for a Ranger/monk dats what i am and its good!
Monk secondary is boring. Good for tanking/soloing, but it's got to be the most popular secondary just because everyone wants to heal themselves.
It actually gives you less flexibility later on in the game since to be an effective healer you need quite high attributes, which will take attribute points away from offensive things. However you wouldn't make a good healer because you have less energy regen and no Divine Favour. So you're left with a mostly redundant secondary, you'll probably take one or two heal spells which will come in handy but not keep you alive as a monk might.
But go for whatever you want SgtFury, there are advantages to all of them. And monk secondary will certainly make your life easier
My first character was ranger/elementalist, you can deal the most damage as an elementalist, and you get a wide range of spells, offensive, defensive, hexes and enchantments etc. The attributes (fire, earth, air and water) all have very different spells, and naturally their own damage type too (although all are 'elemental' damage). And as a ranger you'll be attacking from a distance anyway, which is where an elementalist should be. A problem with r/e is energy, you don't have energy storage like a primary elementalist, and also less energy regen, so those costly spells (eles have loads of them) will be harder to cast.
As I said though, there are advantages to all, I'm just describing r/e because I played one.
Also ranger (atm at least) is a good class for farming tough areas at the end of the game like Fissure of Woe and Underworld. The reason is the skills that are often overlooked early on - traps. Unless they nerf traps, you can spam loads of them. Then lure an enemy (shoot an arrow or something) and run back. Enemies die in your traps. You can farm just about anywhere with the right skills.
It means you can take a three man team into UW for example, which means the money and loot is shared between less players, which means more chance of good items
Hope something I said helped
BiG D said:
My first character was a ranger as well, and I chose elementalist as a second class. Worked ok for me, it was an easy way to learn.
I thought your secondary was mesmer?
