Regarding Rangers... Want to add utility wasn't always valueless. There were a couple places where snaring was useful, for example. Only trouble was you were expect to snare every mob. Failure was automatic kick.
It didn't even come close to making up for the shortfall, but it was something.
Oh and another thing. A lot of chose Ranger because....... Strider/Aragorn. Wielding two blades and letting loose arrows with your badass bow whilst singing to your nature God? And being able to solo when the mood struck? THAT was uber.
Being able to solo more freely WAS a big part of the choice, although it's not why -I- started with one in 1999. Rather, it was idealistic. I wanted to play a righteous class which was nature-based. And one that had a dick. Druids were dickless. And by that I don't mean to disparage. I mean swords. I mean bows. I mean directly breaking the skull of your enemy. I didn't get it from pure casters. Too removed. Again, they felt dickless to me. (I'm not saying Gandalf was dickless, am I? Because I sure as hell am not. Gandalf got a bigger dick than anyone.) But somehow I need a sword or an instrument of battle.
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