HT and LoH
 

LoH and HT has saved groups from certain wipes countless times. I played a warrior for a while, and after a dreadful death to the Cleric while deep in MM, we all wiped shortly there after...

A high level Paladin friend came and helped with the CR. He poked fun at me by saying that "Had we used a paladin instead of a warrior, we would have survived that fight"... sadly it was true....

Since playing my pally here on p99, I have intervened against death several times thanks to LoH, and have even been able to backup heal and saves others from death in sticky situations.....

just my 2 cents on it... but ill gladly take a slight xp penalty for the benefits of LoH!!!

It depends on the player/gear. A good player playing a ranger will show you that they aren't that bad to play with. The whole snap agro thing is dumb, there is a spell called "root" root and get the right spot you will be the tank no matter what, myself and a shaman duo'd solb and the xp was extremely fast, if I remember correctly when with a 40% penalty I got a bub an hour. This was before kunark also, so my weapons weren't even what they could be now.

I'll be back on my ranger in the next week. See ya then :)

Holmes 50 nerco
Gretzky 50 Ranger