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Old 07-11-2019, 01:44 PM
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I really like Rangers, personally. They're decent DPS, can sort of tank and are basically the best class in four specific situations:
1) Pulling outdoors for groups
2) Temporarily tanking something with a discipline
3) Doing DPS from outside dragon fear/AOE slow range or against things with wonky hitboxes
4) Tracking things

They also potentially have specific gear that can just make them best melee DPS period for 2 minute fights, or second best DPS when no caster haste is available due to mass dispel or lack of enchanters/shaman. That's not a bad set of niches where you're the best, given that you can also fill in as generic DPS, and at least one high level ranger is usually desired for buffing.

I remember a parse against queen bee in sky where the ranger outdpsed the top three rogues combined, because we had a bad aggro transition off the first death touch and the queen flipped around and moved enough that the rogues couldn't stay on target and backstab successfully. Her hitbox is stupid as well and she flies, making it hard to visually track her and get in range and stay in range when she's moving to kill new people. The Ranger just sat back with Trueshot, 7 damage arrows and an exquisite velium bow and shot her for the duration of the fight while she buzzed around killing people, and ended up doing 25% of a 40 man raid's damage.

That particular fight was a huge mess, but in my experience it was actually pretty common for rangers to top DPS there if they come with a DPS bow focus and trueshot, because even if everything goes correctly its tough to stay on her 100% of the time in melee.
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