What makes Rangers worse tanks than Shadow Knights or Paladins?

[fadetree]

Pre-epic rangers can slow with a Swarmcaller, too. Cheap, good 2 hand DPS plus a slow proc. Hard to beat. I use mine until it procs, then switch to Woodsman's for serious bonking.

[webrunner5]

Come Velious, IF it ever comes out, classes will change a lot. Rangers are not going to tank anything in Velious trust me. And I am a big Ranger fan. A Paladin, which I am not a big fan of in Kunark will be NEEDED in Velious. They are great pullers if you know how to play them and they are good Tanks.

The old Tank, Cleric, Enchanter thingy is going to be VERY important in Velious. It is going to separate the men from the boys. You not only need DPS in that expansion you need lasting power. Which only a Cleric can make happen. It won't be a Shaman or a Druid healing you, it will be the Cleric healing you to save your ass. Velious is Hard Mode. What is easy now will be hard as hell later. You had better have a good puller, good Tank, good Healer, good slower or you will die. Simple as that.

[fadetree]

Originally Posted by webrunner5 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Come Velious, IF it ever comes out, classes will change a lot. Rangers are not going to tank anything in Velious trust me. And I am a big Ranger fan. A Paladin, which I am not a big fan of in Kunark will be NEEDED in Velious. They are great pullers if you know how to play them and they are good Tanks.

The old Tank, Cleric, Enchanter thingy is going to be VERY important in Velious. It is going to separate the men from the boys. You not only need DPS in that expansion you need lasting power. Which only a Cleric can make happen. It won't be a Shaman or a Druid healing you, it will be the Cleric healing you to save your ass. Velious is Hard Mode. What is easy now will be hard as hell later. You had better have a good puller, good Tank, good Healer, good slower or you will die. Simple as that.

Yeah, for the most part I agree with this, but not entirely. I tanked in Kael and Velk's some back in the early days of velious on live. Did a lot of tanking various giant and orc campes. Doable, but not great. Tanked the helmet of the tracker guy outside Kael with a druid and a shaman. Was able to be a pretty good offtank/root parker. Weaponshield to get the cleric camped is always useful.

[YendorLootmonkey]

Originally Posted by webrunner5 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Rangers are not going to tank anything in Velious trust me.

Sure we will. Level 60 rangers will tank plenty of raid targets.

For precisely 18 seconds before exploding into little ranger bits in a blaze of glory.

[rangerlive]

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

Sure we will. Level 60 rangers will tank plenty of raid targets.

For precisely 18 seconds before exploding into little ranger bits in a blaze of glory.

Surviving that particular sort of encounter usually depends on how well the handing-off of the target to the main tank goes, I'd say. Which requires some sort of skill, I think.

[YendorLootmonkey]

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

Surviving that particular sort of encounter usually depends on how well the handing-off of the target to the main tank goes, I'd say. Which requires some sort of skill, I think.

Depends on if your raid feels you're worth a mallet charge or two or not.

[Ciroco]

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

Sure we will. Level 60 rangers will tank plenty of raid targets.

For precisely 18 seconds before exploding into little ranger bits in a blaze of glory.

Precisely 20 seconds, I hope.