Why rangers don't suck

[Messianic]

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.]