Velious era is a very good time to be a Ranger, Paladin or Shadow Knight, relative to Kunark (the kunark era being the nadir of those classes). A couple months after Velious launched, several important changes were made:
Defense (offense for Rangers) skill cap was raised to equal to that of Warriors.
Basic combat table was made the same as the pure melees
Hybrid spell casting haste was added.
Various new spells were added.
Class experience penalties removed.
All of the above makes it a much happier time relative to Kunark. In the "bad" category, there isn't much undead around for Paladins, but that's quite minor relative to the good.
Note: You sound like you don't tank much; it doesn't matter if an spell you use for aggro gets resisted or not. It'll generate aggro either way.
Danth
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