TBH? Most of us who played eq in classic, know, the rest just are sheep. And the teasing comes from classic players, real trashing of rangers and your class wouldn't come from anyone mature or knowledgeable. The fact is the ranger class really didn't come into it's own until Planes of power I believe. You won't be able to tank, and there are many other options for dps, rangers don't get that bow dps for many expansions.
I wouldn't say I feel sorry for rangers, but I grouped with many a good ranger, and it just sucked their class was underpowered. A skilled player can still perform well, and make the toon useful though.
Anyway, play what you want man. Some people discriminate against classes in their group, if they see a ranger lfg, and have a dps spot open, they won't invite. Those people I wouldn't want to group with anyway.
Play what you want, get used to the ribbing though, and teasing. Just ignore it when it becomes more then that
Also, you have alot of min/maxers now, we learned from 1999 on, what race/classes work best. You can't fault someone for playing the ogre war, instead of say a human, or a necro instead of a ranger now... I have a good friend who rerolled a warrior in 199 when he couldn't kill blues at lvl 3X on his ranger... like everyone else. And he just joined p99 as an ogre war, instead of the human war, or the wood elf ranger.
Blah, bottom line play what you enjoy mate.
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