With the interrupt rate that was in the game at the time, it was nearly impossible for someone to get off a spell when I was hitting them. In Kunark my Ranger had 90% self-buffed haste on Vallon Zek. Think about it for a second, 90% self-buffed haste with ridiculously fast weapons. If I was on you, you did not get a cast off, period. It was very rare for someone to be able to channel a spell and only if I got to them right near the end of it. The channeling rate was nearly 0% if I was hitting you at or near the start of your casting. Any good caster on Vallon Zek, If I got to them in the middle of a cast they would immediately break their cast and run. NOBODY ever tried to channel casts, and if they did, they usually died very quickly. It was a losing strategy. The interrupt rate on melee was very high.
Again, reputation from Rangers on normal servers affected people's decisions to play Rangers on the PVP servers but certain spells that were USELESS on a normal server, were extremely useful on PVP servers. The amount of useless buffs Rangers had meant they could stack all of the important buffs deep and they had tons of pvp utility. A lot of their spells were lesser versions of other classes but a lot of those spells had a lot of PVP utility. For example, cure poison is useless on a normal server, but it meant a Ranger could always immediately remove tash when it was cast on him unlike the vast majority of other classes. Rangers had low resist rate, low damage DoTs which are useless on normal servers, but meant a Ranger could cast it on himself to break mez and cast it on Pets to repeatedly try to pull them away. In Jousting, Rangers had a Regen buff which was huge. Look how much of an advantage Troll Warriors had in PVP simply because of their racial regen bonus. You guys had a very skewed reality of Rangers when in Kunark they were easily the top PVP class. I'd only put Shadowknights ahead of them in Velious.
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