Knights aren't garbage, at least not in my eyes, but I don't think anything that changes with Velious will make a player like them if he doesn't already. The class improvements are nice, but don't seriously upset existing class balancing, so the dominant classes remain dominant. Note that the best changes for the hybrids don't even arrive until some months after Velious opens.
If you already have a 54 Ranger and don't have a strong preference for something else, leveling the Ranger seems like an obvious first choice. Nothing stops you from working up another hybrid later on.
Hybrids do fine in duos, and fine in groups. Much of the bias against them will disappear once their experience penalties are removed. Their jobs and roles in raids depend mostly on the whims of their guilds.
Danth
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