Thinking about returning to VG

**Ranjar**

Good Day,

I've been thinking about returning to VG and looking to see what all has changed for the class. I was checking out a couple of other sites and they mentioned that we have to choose ranged or melee. Can someone elaborate on this? Did we get split in half or something? Am I going to want to choose another profession to place since the Ranger class I was used to and enjoyed may have totally changed? Any info or even being pointed in the right direction will be of great assistance.

**Warbraid**

Rangers did indeed get split between Melee & Ranged.

Personally, I think it was a big mistake and wish they would put us back together again. That said, I still enjoy playing a Melee Ranger even though DPS has been nerfed quite a bit since launch.

You start out as a generic and do a series of quests to select you path etc. Melee lost Precision Style and Ranged lost Offensive Style. Fluff pets were added as well and there are different ones for each path. Ranged got a bow stance push in lieu of the regular version. Recently, the max range on bow atks was reduced by 10m (iirc) and the min range is now 0m.

**Barratsoss**

I agree that the split of rangers was a stupid choice because it didnt added anything to the ranger class, instead mostly just reduced the options available before.

It got worse now since they reduced the minimal range to 0, meaning one can now use ranged all the time. Also, in turn the range on ranged attacks with the crossbow went down drastically.