If you want to play it safe, wait until Velious to start a ranger... particularly after the patch where they get Panic Animal at level 22. Then, if you can't get a group, you can go wherever and fear/snare/melee animals solo and it's not so bad.
At 60, weaponshield disc can be a raid-saver, and some tank transition strats might heavily rely on it for solid aggro to give time for CH rotations to start landing on the MT without immediately getting clerics wiped, but other than that... it's a fun class to play due to versatility that isn't necessarily appreciated by a group just looking to min-max.
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"You know you done fucked up when Yendor gives you raid commentary." - Tiggles
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