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Originally Posted by YendorLootmonkey
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However, if you get to raid, not a whole lot of competition on drops. Probably the only advantage right now. If you absolutely want to try a ranger from scratch, I would wait until Velious when they remove the class penalties and give rangers Panic Animal.
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This is huger than people realize. And we're not only talking raid drops.
Incredibly powerful ranger weapons (Woodsman Staff, Silver Swiftblade, BTCs, Green Jade Broadswords, etc...) are sold at bargain basement prices (or flat out given away) simply from the immense lack of demand. Ranger items with procs are even cheaper, less demand..
Ranger armor? Well, unlike the monk class, Ranger Tolans is also way beyond dirt cheap and pretty dang useful (snare on glorves, Dot on arms, Camo on helm/boots, etc.. You can be a step beyond planar by your teens for the most part.. You simply cannot believe how cheap the stuff is.
Even in comparison to Mykolars the ranger drops are much more common and the supply blows demand out of the water.
So you are looking into a class that can buy planar caliber armor (minus bp/legs) for almost nothing, get a weapon armada to put in your bags/wield for next to nothing.
You can Snare, Sow (no need for jboots really, just buy potions till 39 if you hard up).. Root park, DD, Dot, Pull, Tank in XP groups... and TRACK (which is wtfawesome).
Yeah some min-maxers might whine about not needing you in a group, but if you play your toon well there will *always* be spots for you.
Your only downside is you really don't have an immediate void to fill in dungeons.. Outside of CoM/Karnors you're not going to have your harmonies + sow, and you'll basically be a dps with an xp penalty..
But you're vesatile in many ways too.. Can fear kite with a cleric, can pull in BW/Skyfire/OT/Dreads/etc to more than make up for it. You're a very effective combo with a necro who can both heal you and won't mind having you along cuz you're saving them snare mana and pulling for them.
And if you ever do raid, yeah, you're gonna be near the front of any loot line simply by default. And big guilds love trackers.
It's a long climb to 60 on one, but it's not like Veilous is due out in 20 minutes. It's a fun class.
p.s. - along with bards it's the best 'melee' type class for farming nameds in outdoor zones, allowing you some serious fredom to better yourself on the random times you can't immediately find a group.