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Originally Posted by Grod
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Threat and positioning are something that can be done reliably without the Ranger doing that but of the classes with an avoidance discipline Rangers had the longest one and the best agro mechanics.
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We used it on mobs that had the potential to a) kill the initial tank before the first CH even landed if we waited to let the tank get aggro, or b) start wiping clerics if we timed the start of the CH cycle too early before the initial tank could get sufficient aggro. At the time, we knew no other way to do it. Mostly on the AoW/Status of Rallos Zek/Vindicator encounters in Velious, if I recall correctly. I don't remember doing it for anything else, and after Luclin we pretty much saved our /disc timers for Trueshot. Maybe one ranger was designated to save for weaponshield, unless it was AoW/SoRZ/Vind. Again, that was just my guild, and that was in the Velious era. /shrug (side note, reading stories on Alla of people soloing AoW/SoRZ/Vind with their level 9325235 characters makes me weep)
Secondly, you had more than one ranger on raids (or at least we did) with weaponshield ready to save the raid if needed. We didn't start doing massive damage until Luclin, so it wasn't a huge loss if the initial weaponshield ranger went down. Raid was more worried about losing monk/rogue DPS.