(DR) Eww... new ranger reqs.

Since I didn't really get much done yesterday besides sit on my arse, have some sort of epic argument with Jon about packing, and then script a lot of DR, here's my totally useless post about the new Ranger circle requirements.

This is the first time I'm even aware of them, because I didn't even bother checking the Ranger guild forums until today. (That and Olwydd's site has a circle calculator with the new reqs now.) Apparently the change means lower weapon ranks, and MORE survivals. Gawk! No more general survival ranks so I'll have to train specific skills, and I mean... train them HARD.

According to Olwydd's...

Here are the new requirements.

What you need for circle: 35
You have enough Secondary Survival (Evasion) for Circle 30 and need 19 (140) ranks for circle 35
You have enough 5th Survival (Foraging) for Circle 31 and need 16 (130) ranks for circle 35
You have enough 4th Survival (Swimming) for Circle 31 and need 13 (130) ranks for circle 35
You have enough 6th Survival (Climbing) for Circle 31 and need 16 (130) ranks for circle 35
You have enough Tertiary Survival (Scouting) for Circle 32 and need 11 (130) ranks for circle 35

And here's the old ones!

What you need for circle: 35
You have enough Primary Weapon (Medium Edged) for Circle 34 and need 4 (115) ranks for circle 35
You have enough General Survival for Circle 34 and need 21 (1,200) ranks for circle 35

...Can we say ouch? Instead of needing 21 survivals and a bit of weapon, I need over 70 ranks of my five highest survival skills. It's enough to make me weep! :O

So now it looks like I need to train my survivals double-time, just to catch up for circle 35. The evasion is especially worrying, because I don't want to train evasion and exclude my other combat skills. That means, once I get the other survival skills up to par I have 20 ranks of combat skills to work with, too. Never going to catch up, I swear. ;___;

But I'll probably at least keep running my climbing / scouting / foraging script till I move and lose 'net for a while. Swimming, too. Man. So much to train. Oh well, I'll get there -- it's not like I don't have 48 gen survival ranks per circle with the current system.

Just don't want my other skills to fall too far behind while I play catch-up. ^^;