Ranger Help

[Seruthei 0]

I'm currently playing a campaign where I'm having some difficulty keeping up power-wise with other players. Everyone is level 6, I'm a Ranger, and we have a Mentalist, an Illusionist, a Tao, and a Technician. It seems that my low base damage is really hurting me when it comes to combat, as even with armor-piercing arrows I seem to end up doing minimal damage to enemies. 40 base damage isn't that great. Anyone have any ideas on how I could balance against the people with 80-140 base damage?

[Nurddude 0]

1) Obtain an Artifact.

2) Use MK to create Techniques.

 

Your other party members are Mystics or Domine, so it may be difficult to keep up with them.

[Seruthei 0]

Dang. I think the base damage of bows is way too low, especially considering your strength isn't added to it.

[Tarrant12 1]

An artifact and quality bow would definitely help things out, especially if it has a power that makes quality arrows appear. Also I do believe that bows get the strength bonus to damage. I could be wrong but I couldn't find anywhere under projectile weapons that stated one way or the other. Under the longbow description it says it must be used two-handed but the STR bonus isn't doubled so I assume you still get the +str to damage

[Nurddude 0]

Tarrant12 is, to the best of my knowledge, correct. However, non-quality bows are only able to handle a certain amount of strength.

[Seruthei 0]

Thanks for the input guys. With the strength bonus added in and some magic gear, I'm balanced with the rest of the team now!