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03-19-2012, 01:02 PM
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I always wondered why the playerbase felt wizards were so grand when they were literally the worst class to have in a group. I only realized how bad they were after leveling a wizard to 51 on live.
People didn't like rangers because there wasn't some "Ooooh Aaahhhh" factor. People think wizards are really doing something when they chain nuke a mob from 50% to 0 quickly, but for some reason are blind to the fact that the wizard is doing substantially less damage over the course of many fights than the ranger, and the ranger is far more useful if all we're looking at is sustained damage and general group utility. Even rangers can heal the necro/shaman/casters...the wizard literally sits there and meds and ends up doing between 15-25 sustained dps over the course of the group if they're not doing anything else - so if the group is efficient (i.e. pulls continually come, evac isn't needed), the wizard becomes more and more useless. I love rangers, *especially* after they get animal fear - I'm just addicted to feign death so I always stuck with a monk instead [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
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03-19-2012, 02:47 PM
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03-19-2012, 03:10 PM
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Most times people are all too quick to blame the crappy exp they're getting on the hybrids. When in reality it's more than likely due to slow pulls or people AFKing.
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03-19-2012, 04:57 PM
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If it wasn't for the XP penalty, Rangers wouldn't be too bad. The truth is that a Ranger is probably about equivalent to my iksar warrior in both dps and overall tanking ability (probably a bit more damage/second taken, but better aggro). But overall the problem Rangers have is the same one Druids have: their utility is just not useful in a group, with one exception: Rangers can absolutely rock as pullers in outdoor dungeons. There is a reason Druids and Rangers love KC.
P.S. Giegue, you are just wrong on bards vs Enchanters in XP groups. If the enchanter isn't charming, a bard and an enchanter are probably about equal: the enchanter will be more consistent with buffs and more able to handle 5+ pulls (I pulled 10 mobs in KC once with Prosephone as our enchanter, and we killed them all - bards just can't do that) while the bard can do more slowing and resist buffing and some health regen as well. If the enchanter is charming, they are really filling 3 slots: 1 CC, and 2 DPS, which makes them equivalent to about 3 bards. | ||
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03-20-2012, 04:33 AM
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Give me a decent healer and I can pretty much tank any groupable encounter currently in game.
~shrugs~ Have said it before will say it again. Playing a ranger is EQ at a higher level of difficulty. The class doesn't suck, the people who don't know how to play it do [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
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03-20-2012, 09:02 AM
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Rangers have ranger gate!
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