Comparison of melee hybrid classes.

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

oh yeah, centi was luclin haha my B. Snare CAN be expected to land. What do you mean? It's got a very very low casting time and any ranger worth his salt is going to make sure he spams the hell out of it until it lands. Especially in the beginning people are not going to have MR resist items maxed.

It depends how they code resists in the end, but assuming they try to get it as close to classic as possible and do a decent job of it, it's plenty possible for melees to get enough MR for spells like snare to virtually never land. If you want to spend the first 45 seconds of every fight trying to snare somebody, you're welcome to do so - you'll probably just die. Even if you do snare someone, you can't take any melee class toe to toe except maybe rogues, and most people will just pumice any root/snare that lands anyway.

The real problem with the ranger class is that it lacks raw power. They have lots of little tools and utility, but without the power to back it up, they're nothing. Unimpressive DPS, complete inability to do burst damage (jousting, big nukes, HT, melee crits, backstab etc.) and no real survivability the way paladins and priest classes have. Maybe if rangers were the ones with feign death instead of shadowknights, they'd have a place in high-end PvP. Since they don't have anything unique or valuable at all and lack an area of expertise worth mentioning, they're just the bottom-feeder class in classic.