Rogues and rangers can fear kite animals or aggro kite non-animals. If you can snare it and it doesn’t summon you can kill it. Or just pick easier targets and use root to trade off taking hits as needed (proximity aggro).
Personally, I’d probably skip the wavecrasher. They seem very tough to sell and by the time slow really matters (50+) a swarmcaller will proc for twice the % effect. I duoed with a rogue in grobb in the low 50’s and while the Swarm didn’t always proc early it did cut downtime significantly when averaged over time. Later a slow proc weapon of that nature comes in handy coupled with some journeyman’s walking sticks in some of the toughest places. Your rogue buddy can get a free slow proc no-drop weapon in droga doubling your chances for an early proc.
As for 1h vs 2h there are optimal setups for certain level ranges. That said, many rangers hit 50 in classic with EBW’s. Later some hit 60 with jade maces. It’s your game; fun isn’t always about optimal parses…especially as a ranger.
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