ranger rogue build or ranger all the way?

[duckydax]

im a lvl8 ranger thinking of adding rouge due to difficulties in solo quest with traps and loots behind lock doors,any other advise may help on any class i can add best fit with ranger,tnx...one other thing, how do u cross skill?

[herzkos]

stay pure ranger is my advice.
Depending on your character's Int, you may not be able to get
the rogue skills high enough to disable the traps at this point.
Ideally, if you want to splash rogue you do the first level of rogue
at level 1 because rogues get the most skill points of any class.
If you have a great Int score, it may still be workable as rangers get
a decent amount of skill points/level.

to cross class a skill, you add points to it on level up just like a class skill.
two points per one skill point increase and fractions are rounded down in use (but you keep the
fraction for next level)
Unfortunately, you cannot cross class a n/a skill(possible exception UMD).
So a character needs at least 1 level in rogue to even be able to put points
into disable device or open locks.
The good news is that there aren't any (or many) traps that are true killers on normal
or casual difficulties and anything you have to unlock isn't generally a requirement
to complete a quest that you could solo anyway.

Perhaps some day they will come out with capable rogue hirelings but I'm not sure
I'd even want them in the game as it'd be pretty tough to control them with the current
mechanics governing hirelings.

[unbongwah]

Multiclass builds should always be planned in advance. In particular, rogue should always be taken at first level to maximize your skill points. If you're willing to do an LR +1 to change your first level to rogue, it would be easy to give you builds for rogue / rangers. But as it is, I think you're better off sticking with ranger.