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Originally Posted by Messianic
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I remember Rangers being terribly weak until Kunark. Low DPS and low damage mitigation. Kunark gave them really good DPS.
However, once they got animal-based fear spells (Velious?), they rocked the house in terms of soloing. I soloed even to high blue cons in my 30s-40s with animal fear. Made my ranger actually really viable...
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You remember incorrectly. Rangers were just fine and perfectly capable tanks until Kunark came out. With the increase in hit that mobs got, and a minor AC revamp, ranger's started to get beat down, which is the origin of the ranger down jokes. To compensate, the devs gave rangers double damage against non-rooted not-moving mobs with their bows. They also increased their damage tables slightly and bumped up their offensive skills slightly. This resulted in rangers drawing agro and thus, the jolt spell was given to them late in Kunark.
The animal fear spell was pre kunark. I used it in SK and later at Kedge entrance before Kunark came out. I don't think it was at release but reasonably certain it was prior to Kunark. I know when Kunark came out I was fear kiting animals in OT with an SK partner.