point of view from 31 st level ranger
			 
			 
			
		
		
		Leveling wil take forever , but not so much more than other classes with same penalty. ranger, sk, bards, paladins. 
 
 
Lack of tanks has nothing to do with penalty imho  lack of groups 20 to 35  makes us  tanks/ hybrids resort to soloing which quickly gets boring.   Ranger will have easier time as we can solo relativly well 15 to 30plus <rem to stick to outside areas> but who the heck wants to level 1 60 solo bleh. 
 
 
sorry sidtracked  lack of groups in 20 to 35  range or long wait till you get grp forces players to solo  casters have relativly easy time doing this but  pure melee and hybrids do not with exception ranger.   These lack of groups  or long wait till get a group tend to quickly  make people move on to differetn classes etc. 
 
 
my 2 cents 
		
		
		
		
		
		
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