Range

[edit] What is range?

Range is the skill in which the player uses a bow with arrows or a crossbow with bolts.

A ranger is a player who specializes in the use of ranging equipment. Rangers use a variety of ranged equipment to attack enemies from afar so that it is harder to get hurt by opponents. The ranger can even stand behind certain obstacles such as fences and small rocks to ensure that the enemy does not hurt them at all! Rangers are good against mages, hitting hard against their thin robes, while able to resist magic spells with their strong leather/dragonhide armours. At higher levels, rangers are able to easily dispatch most kinds of monsters in several shots.

[edit] Training Range

Ranging is a great skill because you can attack enemies from a distance, and not have to pay as much as you would if you became a mage. Mages do have a wider variety of attacks and more attacks, because the massive amount of money they have to dish out to purchase runes. If you are a member, you can get Ava’s Accumulator to get any steel arrows you drop automatically. If you are not a member, you can still walk and get the arrows you used, conserving money. Also, the strong range armour and weapons are much cheaper than what you would have to pay if you were a mage. Karil’s set is only 800k and full black dragonhide is only 55k. Magic bows can be bought for a few thousand. If you want to become powerful while keeping your money in tact, ranging is for you.

1-30 First you should buy 1000-10000 bronze arrows or iron arrows,you will need about 20-30k so spend wisely. Then I would start off in the Varrock sewers. There is lots of sewer water creating divisions, so the enemy you are attacking can not fight back. I would start out with the most common enemy, rats. Level 1 rats are incapable of giving damage, so you can just stand in front of them and attack. Once you are a bit stronger, you can attack giant rats behind streams of sewer water. Once you enter the Varrock sewers, there is a stream to the direct left. After you are done, just walk a few seconds around the water and collect your arrows. This should be your main training for a bit.

If you wander down the west most path, you will come across a stream of water and zombies on the other side. Pound away at them with your arrows after you are 15 range, or so. The problem is, you probably won’t get back your arrows, this way. It is a good idea to use cheap arrows on the zombies.

Another place to fight is on the outside of pens or gates. There is a very good training area at lumbridge for low levels. Just go a little north of lumby and a chicken pen awaits you. Collect the feathers to trade in for a little money. Also, get the raw chicken and cook it to eat, if you get hurt somehow. You probably won’t since you are at the outside of a pen. Just across from the chicken pen is the cow pen. You can range cows and grab the leather they drop and sell that off for 100 each. The crafting guild is caged in. Attack the monsters inside while standing outside of the gate. You can’t get your arrows back unless you can go in.

30-40 Bars. Bars. Bars. My motto is if there is a bar there is a way. xD Anyway, at this point, you should find some bars to train in. Let the enemy be on one side of the table/counter/etc. and you on the other side. Kill your opponent, and go to the other side of the table to collect the spoils and your arrows. Also, the barbarian village bar is a good place at this level range.

40-60 I guess you can go around training in the Wizard Tower. It may be for wizards, but you can just beat the in there anyway. Just plow your way through anything in that tower to get a lot of experience.

You should now fight ice giants and moss giants. Try to hide behind anything you can and just fire away.

60-80 Well, you can fight on lesser demons in Karajma, and if you are a member, you can fight fire giants. You can beat most things in the game. If you still want to, you may even try to plow through black knight’s fortress right next to the ice mountain.

80+ Just beat any dragons you feel like. The blue dragons in Tavelry work especially well, but when you are in the 90s, you can even move to the infamous black dragons. Just beat down some dragons to get good drops and good experience.

Note: When training, use the rapid fire option. This gives you experience the fastest. Also, I prefer a shortbow because they fire faster. Always have the highest bow/range weapons you can wield. Also, wear the best range armour you can get because they are cheap. I like keeping dragonhide as they have as they serve as great armour, but are cheap. Arrows can get expensive, so try to use not much more than steel arrows, if you need to. If you are fighting something powerful, then you can switch to higher arrows.

NOTE: Ava's Attractor and Accumalator is a great thing to use. They allow you to auto collect iron or steel arrows, respectively. You need to do a quest to get it, but it is well worth it. You can save a tremendous amount of money on arrows this way and get great bonus' on your stats. Since you will usually be using these type of arrows anyway, it is a must for many rangers.

NOTE: Research locations so that you are able to hide behind objects when fighting. You do not want to have to make lots of return trips for food to the bank, so try to find areas that offer maximum cover. This is especially important when fighting high level monsters because you'll have to take many return trips, if you don't find cover. Rangers do not get as much defense bonus as melee fighters, so this is essential.

[edit] Bow's And Bonuses

1:Standard Bows_It dont need any training to use it, and it can fire bronze and iron arrows.This item can be fletched wich requires level 5 fletching ( long bow requires level 10 fletching). 2:Oak Bow This bow requires level 5 range to use, it can fire bronze, iron and steel arrows.This item can be fletched wich requires level 20 fletching ( long bow requires level 25 fletching). 3:Willow Bow This bow requires level 20 range to use, it can fire bronze, iron, steel and mithril arrows.This item can be fletched with requires level 35 fletching ( long bow requires level 40 fletching). 4:Maple Bow This bow requires level 30 range to use, it can fire bronze, iron, steel, mithril, and adamant arrows.this item can be fletched wich requires level 50 fletching ( long bow requires level 55 fletching). 5:Ogre Composite Bow ( members) This bow requires level 30 range to use, it can fire bronze, iron, steel, mithril, adamant, and rune arrows. This item can be fletched wich requires level 30 fletching. 6:Yew Bow ( members) This Bow requires level 40 range to use, it can fire bronze, iron, steel, mithril, adamant, and rune arrows.This item can be fletched wich requires level 65 fletching ( long bow requires level 70 fletching). 7:Magic Bow ( members) This bow requires level 50 range to use, it can fire bronze, irn, steel, mithril, adamant, and rune arrows.This item can be fletched wich requires level 80 fletching ( long bow requires 85 fletching). 8:Dark Bow ( members) This bow requires level 60 range to use, it can fire bronze, iron, steel, mithril,adamant, rune and dragon arrows. This item cant be fletched, its dropped by dark beasts wich requires level 90 slayer to kill. 9:Crystal Bow ( members) This bow requires level 70 range to use, you can get it after completing Roving Elves Quest.This item have 2500 shots,when you spent the 2500 shots it degrades into a crytal seed wich you must recharge, to recharge it it will cost you 900k the 1st time, 2nd:720k, 3rd:540k, 4th:360k, and finnaly 180k every 2500 shots.This item cant be fletched.

19:02, 11 October 2007 (CDT) By Dark Dog Uy, Runescape Name: Chris Id