The concept of hybrid ranger is pretty simple. When ranger’s can’t out-damage nor out-hp the enemy, they just stun-lock them with crossline and slowly burn/poison enemies down.

If you decide to go hybrid ranger, you must have one thing in mind. It will be hard. VERY HARD.
Either hard spending 20 bucks in a reskill or going to a high-hp monster (trangs for example) and spamming crossline.

Building

If you still want to, go for it! Training it manually is extremely hard and boring, one of the worst times you’ll have in Flyff. But the reward is a godsend. So get a music on, and go ahead.

In order to spam it properly you’ll need Hyper/Cruiser Set (no suit) so you can get the fp reduction, and an iron yo-yo so you can deal the less damage possible. The fastest way to do it is selecting a mob, putting a coin in the crossline f# and clicking in the fp icon in the shortcut bar. Any shortcut button, new window opened or f# you press will cancel the skill. So place the coin there, click in the FP pots when needed and pretend you’re a plant.

I’ve already tried activations, and frankly it goes pretty much as fast as this method. So it’s cheaper to do the way it’s here, since the action slot is kinda broken.

Also, level up counterattack the max you can, most people don’t really know how to fight it, and always get stunned.
Incredibly, pulling is also useful. You’ll love when the odds are favoring you and you’re able to combo a pulling+counter.

For bow skills, have ice/fire/poison arrows mastered. Junk arrow still helps against some classes, but yo-yo’s and ranger skills will be most of what you’ll use. Although auto-shot is a very good damage dealer, and aimed shot is somewhat better than JA due to the lower casting time and faster damage/second.

As for build, I?m not actually the most recommended one for this kind of PvPer, since I?m AOE. A DEX build would do fairly better than I do due to a higher damage out-put (but could probably die in ohko from many classes =P), but then a good peision necklace/shineglasses should come in play.

Equips

As a hybrid ranger you’ll want to kill as fast as possible, so your enemy can’t escape from the stun-lock. Then you’ll need as much attack as possible.

– 3/4 of Restron/Rebron Set for the +10 str (no suit needed). Don’t worry, the set defense is actually the same as the crappy ranger armor.
– Guardian Yo-Yo, if you want to deal a significant damage with yo-yo’s.
– +16% attack in your suit is very recommended, but if you manage to get a 12% it’s cool.
– Get the best areks you can, if you can’t try getting vigor’s, they are still helpful, but not as much as the areks.
– Mighteers would be a great help, if you can get at least one, go for it. If you can’t, stay always dual-plug

If you can’t get spro’s or gpro’s, get at least you set/bow/yo-yo all +3, and your suit +4%. A guardian bow would be nice due to the higher base damage, but as I?m an AoE build I could sell it to upgrade better my other equips.

Dueling

So, you got crossline to lvl 16+. Now you can consider using it in PvP, although you won’t get that much stunlocks, and will hardly ever be able to switch to bow and get back with another stun.

Switching between the weapons is another skill to be mastered. You have to put both bow/arrows and yo-yo in the action slot, and press the f# key once to switch. If you get nervous and press it many times you’ll end up unarmed and the enemy unstunned.

Also, be aware of the stun glitch. If you mix both counterattack and crossline stuns the enemy will end up unstunned until both stun wears off. That’s a nightmare when you action slot crossline and you kick in 3-4 stuns which lasts 6 seconds. Basically, stun glitch = death . Although, there’s a way to go over it! When your crossline is high enough, it will likely stun in the first or second try. Just leave the cursor over the counter-stun icon, wait for it to reach 0, and action slot. You might get one hit, but it’s better than dieing anyway…

I’d post a few other things, maybe a mini guide of dueling scenarios, but something?s are better go get by your own experience, so go to the arena and have a nice time

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I’ll try to post my slotbars later, but I?ll only log in the weekend.

Although I made this guide, I?m still under construction, and I am not the inventor of hybrid rangers. The concept, the inspiration and most of the things I know came from the first and only Hybrid Ranger who exists, LadyAriel from Lawolf. Haven’t seen her for a while, come back ladyyyy!

Credits go to dfosco.