What makes Rangers worse tanks than Shadow Knights or Paladins?

[Tecmos Deception]

Originally Posted by webrunner5 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I am 67 years old

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[Deltaloko]

Originally Posted by webrunner5 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I am 67 years old

props to you for doing what you love! thats awesome!

[Lojik]

Do you qualify for some sort of Everquest Pension, where Sony just gives your live character free loots each month?

[Cecily]

That's called Veteran Rewards.

[koros]

Ranger with a Baton of Flame and a Salindrite Dagger/Claw of Lightning with the atk upgrades towards the end of Velious should be top tier dps. Above a war, and ~10-20% below a monk or ~20% behind a rogue with equal gear.

Rogue relative dps declines vs other classes due to backstab damage not increasing, while monks lose a good bit of their relative ratio advantage (although they get moved to a slightly improved hit table). Meanwhile ranger atk/weapon skill/double attack increases and weapon ratios massively improve vs Kunark.

[Ciroco]

A lot of the rhetoric about Rangers in Velious is exaggerated, but I have to say, reading through the patch notes has me pumped.

[Deltaloko]

"Above a war, and ~10-20% below a monk or ~20% behind a rogue with equal gear."

Wouldnt that make them tier 2 dps, with tier 1 being rogue/monk?

[iruinedyourday]

Originally Posted by webrunner5 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I am 67 years old as some of you know on here and have the time since I am retired to play EQ, hell 18 hours a day, if I wanted to.

Dude!! You fight dragons, insted of golf courses.. amazing!

youre like this guy:

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[fadetree]

I personally don't care what dps tier I'm in, I just enjoy rangering. We do get better in Velious, but not enough to displace the traditional favorites, many of whom also get better. The removal of the exp penalty, addition of panic animal, and some melee and spell ATK upgrades put us in a much better position. I'm looking forward to it. Part of what I like about rangers is the difficulty, so if they got too much better I probably wouldn't enjoy it as much.

[koros]

Originally Posted by Deltaloko [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

"Above a war, and ~10-20% below a monk or ~20% behind a rogue with equal gear."

Wouldnt that make them tier 2 dps, with tier 1 being rogue/monk?

Shrug, I guess it's how you want to define tier. Still better than nearly every class. Also, this isn't factoring in casting DPS which will be 10-20 dps vs some targets. Also I don't know if anyone has parsed Trueshot + BFG but that's very likely to beat anything else period.