Comaring BST and RNG wide scan

[pearlsea]

The way i make money atm is crafting but i like to farm the crystals to get a bigger profit but im pretty bad at locateing the elemtals so when i hit 30 im thinking of subbing bst or rng but im wondering what one has the better wide scan and how big of a differance it is,

BTW my ls is lvling bst for BCNM.

[aegina]

Re: Comaring BST and RNG wide scan

if i recall, the widescan at level 1 is almost the same for both. i think the size of the ws for ranger is slightly larger, but it's not a big difference. the widescan for ranger gets bigger as you level, but the first increase in size isn't until level 20 (40 for you)

i would like to take a moment to complain that ranger's widescan grows so much so fast. it makes it near useless in xp pt, because a long list of monsters like that takes such a long time to load. you can narrow it, but that takes time too. >.> i don't even use ws anymore, except on quests to find npc's... /rant off

but anyway, for farming at level 30/15, there won't be a big difference between them so i wouldn't worry. pick whichever one you want

[Aeni]

Re: Comaring BST and RNG wide scan

Actually, at level 15, my RNGs scan is hella lot wider than my level 22 BST's wide scan range. Sometimes it's frustrating as a BST to be able to see something at the edge of your draw distance only to not see it appear on wide scan and that you'll have to take several steps, refresh scan and then be able to track whatever it is you see.

Like aegina, I think RNG's wide scan for certain situations are a bit too wide to be of any use to anyone, but I guess it takes some certain knack in being able to quickly pull up what you need and track it. I guess some RNGs just kickass in doing this.

[Caspian]

Re: Comaring BST and RNG wide scan

Like Aegina said, only thing I really use it for is finding npc's. At level 50 its just too huge. In most xp places there's roughly four screens of mobs to scroll through and no way of immediately knowing if the mobs are already taken or not (after a few runs you know where other camps are and such, but its still not that helpful). If i do use it much anymore its to look at the map itself and look for dots to tell if there are any mobs at their normal spawn locations. Useful in places like the first area of Crawler's nest when you know that there are three crawlers on the side tunnel. B/c of the huge area it covers it also makes it very difficult for lottery spawn NM's. Would be alot more helpful in those situations if there was a search function where you could find specific mobs quickly. Oh well, when has SE made anything easier?

[aegina]

Re: Comaring BST and RNG wide scan

it's not reading the list of mobs that makes lvl 50-ish rng widescan useless, it's the downloading time. it can take 20 seconds or more for the list of mobs to even appear on the map ; ;
since dunes, i have used widescan only once, in crawler's nest. everywhere else it would totally break a chain.

edit: twice. i also used it in the second garliage citadel, the one around level 50-ish, i forget exactly