Why does everyone hate rangers?

[Dior]

I don't think it's the xp penalty that discourages grps from inviting them. I think it's that, from the little I've seen, many rangers here never played during classic. They only played during a time when rangers had 1) access to good twink gear and 2) were useful for more than just nominal dps. So, rangers here play like they have the gear to tank and skill to pull, when they neither have the gear nor do they even try to snare/park the mobs. So rangers here end up just taking way too much damage from attempting to tank and generally drain the cleric of mana continuously. On top of all that, people in general just don't give a shit about aggro management.

It all culminates into one big ball of "Why do we need a ranger when X class can do what they do, but better?" They were never good until the AA's that made them dps machines came into play.