[Takshaka]

Well, I do indeed have too much time on my hands because I am awfully bored at work right now.

I would say part of your lack of enjoyment may be the result of playing a ranger. did you play a ranger back in the day? b/c rangers have always kinda been the gimpy-est hybrid class. Sure the concept of the ranger is pretty cool, but in play they just don't hold up that well and you still suffer that damn 40% XP penalty so it takes so THAT much longer to level. I remember a friend of mine leveling his ranger up to 36 or 37 as his first toon when EQ launched and he was so pissed that it took him that long to figure out that the class sucked at the time. (rangers may have gotten better after during or after Kunark)

Also, not sure what server you played on, but there was probably more drama on Erollisi Marr than there is on this server and then my second server, The Nameless, it was pretty much the same situation.