Question about what is best to work on

[Onionfighter]

Getting back to the original question, a good ranger should have good combat skills, and all the black skills. Depending on how much time you want to prepare before ranging, raising your combat skills would be more immediately useful (for hunting and general self-defense) than the black skills would be. On the other hand, a ranger is pretty useless without ranging rage, and decent exploration. (high exploration will pay off in more curio discoveries, too.)

[angrysully]

First of all you want a wide variety on curiosities when you have some int already. Usually foraged curiosities are the best. There are some that are just outstanding and should be used in any case, like flotsam, bluebell, edelweiß, or glimmermoss. Then it depends on wether you plan to actively play or will be offline for a while. Ant soldiers (or the other ants too) have a great LP/hour/attention ratio, but are used up rather quick. So in order for them to be effective you have to be online and change them all the time. For offline LP spider web or aurochs hair are nice, I personally also like enthroned frogs. They don't have the best LP/hour/attention ratio, but are nice for over night use. Fill the rest of your slots with boletes, toadstools, frog crowns etc and you are good to go.

Don't forget you nightcap (tea) which will give you a hefty increase of overnight LP. It can also be timed with good LP items too like an empress or Flotsam.

I'm a little confused, I drink tea before I go to sleep at night and it gives me increased lp on items?

[Gorbane]

I'm a little confused, I drink tea before I go to sleep at night and it gives me increased lp on items?

Tea gives you a slight LP buff that increases over time, the longer you have it (capped by quality?)
It persists through logout, so you can log in with the LP bonus when the curios finish.

[angrysully]

I'm a little confused, I drink tea before I go to sleep at night and it gives me increased lp on items?

Tea gives you a slight LP buff that increases over time, the longer you have it (capped by quality?)
It persists through logout, so you can log in with the LP bonus when the curios finish.

OK sweet, thanks for the advice.