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I never said anything bad about their aggro or utility, I said they were squishy. I like rangers, probably my 2nd favorite class to play after SK.

I also think SK def beats ranger for aggro. Are you comparing flame lick to DC? Cus the better comparison would be flamer lick to shadow vortex, then tack on DC. And snare (for both). Rangers do generate more straight melee aggro, though.

Rangers have like 20% fewer hp, and ranger races are all fairly low STA, especially with sparse STA gear as you point out.

Suppose ungeared, with max points into STA, with highest STA race, and using your numbers:
Ogre SK: 147 STA *5.2=764
Ogre shaman: 152*3=456
Human Ranger: 105 STA *4.2=441

But at that point you're really splitting hairs, play the toon you want the way you want. I'm just saying that rangers are fairly squishy tanks. You don't want them tanking if you can help it. That said they're ideal secondary tanks because a good ranger will always hold their aggro just barely under the tank so if the tank goes down, mobs turns to ranger instead of 1-2 rounding a caster, and the ranger is ready to step up and hopefully get things back under control.