The point, Zeus, is that he did that by firing at each enemy individually, not by putting 10 arrows on a string and letting them fly. A single-target archer could very well take down 100 enemies coming at them. What I was talking about was how firing mutliple arrows AT ONCE is terribly inaccurate in practice and thus Rangers should not focus on AoEs.
As for the pet, no, that isn't a part of the Ranger archetype. It's a part of the Druid archetype.
I would like to get responses from people from melee users, not mage/rangers that already dominate both PvP and PvE.
http://www.d20srd.or...sses/ranger.htm
See 1st level (wild empathy) and 4th level (animal companion) . They've had some form of that ability since 1st ed AD&D?
It's a game. Lots of things are inaccurate or unrealistic: Spider hams, Mobs surviving an arrow to the face, fully automatic crossbows, every giant humanoid enemy, reality warping bags into which you can place other reality warping bags, crops growing in the space a few minutes, getting a quest for meat killing a several hundred pound whatever and somehow getting no meat, skinning stuff by repeatedly stabbing it, literally everything about how warriors use two handed swords (lol whirlwind skills), face tanking anything, the entire concept of a threat, sitting down and eating an entire ham and having this heal you, magic at all period....