Druid or Ranger alt for Velious?

[Fianna]

I wanted to put this in one of the class forums, but since it fits neither into the melee nor the priest sections. Ill post it here.

Basically, I am an established player on this server, with several high level chars. (Ench, Paladin, Rogue, Monk and baby Shaman coming up). With Velious though, there are a lot of new interesting things to do. Tradeskill materials to farm, forage, huge zones that take a long time to get through, groundspawns to hunt and ring/shawl quests to do ect. Basically I have been considering starting a Druid or a Ranger for all the Velious farming and stuff.

But which is superior for Velious? The Druid has the ports obviously, which is a big big plus. However, the Ranger has superior tracking and on top of that it is melee based. I can imagine having to kill a lot of trash mobs trying to get a drop and repeatedly running out of mana on the druid, whereas the Ranger would be able to just keep killing.

So what do you recommend for some serious Velious exploration.
Ranger or Druid?
Also which epic is easier?