Melee Ranger DPS - Viable?

[Skaxx]

Just curious, I love Rangers, but I like Melee Rangers over Bow Rangers. Dunno why, just love the hybrid melee fighter.

Viable?

[Brontu]

not here - the dps loss would be tremendous. Basically would be doing 1/4 of what you should be and at that point might as well be using a warrior for dps 8\

[Skaxx]

Really? I assumed that with the melee procs and such it would work

[Brontu]

not with the Archery mastery aa's and such that Rangers get - they do about 6x more dmg wtih a bow than melee, (6 might be a bit of an exaggeration but id stand by my x4 at elast lol)

[Furryfist]

here is unbuffed with my ranger.

Melee:/GU Vlar in 181s, 504k @2787dps --- Raydar 504k @2787dps (100%)
Range:/GU Vlar in 181s, 609k @3365dps --- Raydar 609k @3365dps (100%)

here is self buffed with sune's

Melee:/GU Vlar in 181s, 1134k @6266dps --- Raydar 1134k @6266dps (100%)
Range:/GU Vlar in 185s, 1859k @10048dps --- Raydar 1859k @10048dps (100%)

we're built for range dps on this server =)

[Bomb]

Depends how heavily you focus on the character. For box afk dps bow autofire will win for sure. For a single box melee works if you are focusing that attention to it. Obviously if you have a donator bow vs inferior melee weapons your bowing will be vastly superior as well.

[Grey]

Depends on how many you box as well.
Im pretty lazy and moving back 40 distance and pushing autofire key is more work then just pushing /assist + attack on and really the dps loss from bow to melee is not that bad when you have 5 melee.
If you only had tank healer ranger you would want to be using bow for sure cause that is your dps.

[Skaxx]

here is unbuffed with my ranger.

Melee:/GU Vlar in 181s, 504k @2787dps --- Raydar 504k @2787dps (100%)
Range:/GU Vlar in 181s, 609k @3365dps --- Raydar 609k @3365dps (100%)

here is self buffed with sune's

Melee:/GU Vlar in 181s, 1134k @6266dps --- Raydar 1134k @6266dps (100%)
Range:/GU Vlar in 185s, 1859k @10048dps --- Raydar 1859k @10048dps (100%)

we're built for range dps on this server =)

To be fair, though, you do have the donator bow. I was curious as to a high end ranger with evolving weapons maybe, or something of the sort. The reason I ask is because we were considering subbing a Ranger in at times for our group, but we prefer melee to ranged, and Bards buff melee a million times more than they buff ranged dps.

[Grey]

non doner bow dps Vs good melee weapon dps with the right setup would be a close call.
Generally you get better dps out of the bow but not always the case.