Ranger Splash for Wizard Elf?

[Dombre]

Ok here is the problem I have been running into. I am leveling a Wizard, currecntly level seven. I am looking into the ranger prestige till I get to level 20 and then Reincarnate back to pure Wizard, so before I get the whole thing over how it is better just to have pure wizard at higher levels I know. I will be going back to it once I can. But for now I am looking in purely for leveling up till then. I am thinking my next two levels will be into Ranger. This way I get the +2 BAB I need to get the prestige class quicker and all the fun bonuses that come with it. I am currently running him with a cold bow and flame arrows for the damage but thinking the Force damage would be even more so better for single targets. For AOE I am using Firwal, I LOVE IT! but I am thinking for single targets I love the bow thought. Anyone have any thoughts to share along this thought please advise... Thanks!

Dombre

[riaggo]

totally not worth it. play around with the feats with a pure 20 elf wizard. Im playing one currently and i havent gotten to cap yet. but she will have manyshot, all the arcane archer stuff, pale master 2 with form of the lich. all the important bow and metamagic feats, low end umd. decent amount of hitpoints. toss a few tensers scrolls on her to mix in with manyshot and a pos 3 bow with your slaying arrows that i believe still hit red and purple named (its a damage effect not a kill effect) and you are gold.

[unbongwah]

Can you actually get your BAB, DEX, and STR (if you have Bow STR) high enough to be any good at archery as an almost-pure wizard? To me that always seems to be the sticking point with these builds.