Rangers? Rangers! Rangers.

[Sparkin]

That's the thing that isn't really mentioned here. Rangers can tank fine in groups doing rather easy content (where you have a lot of dps and mow down mobs at least a few levels below you). In cases like that, rangers are possibly the best tank to have in a group, because they will out dps SK's / Pals, and do slightly more damage than a war but hold aggro much more easily than them. So if you don't have a lazy healer who wants to heal as little as possible, rangers can arguably be the most effective tank for a group in certain instances in terms of getting fast exp.

Back in the days I can remember doing a fine job tanking any upper floor Seb camps, HS, etc. once the defense cap changes were made. I believe those cap changes were made near the start of Velious on live servers, but stuff like that is innate on this server cause they don't really mess with the caps here? Somebody correct if I'm wrong, but I don't think rangers have that extremely low defense cap here that they started with in Kunark on live servers. And that was as responsible as anything for giving rangers their reputation.

Duo tip - you said you were tired of being LFG as a necro? Look for lazy LFG necs to group with on your ranger. You pull, snare, melee, they fear, sic pet, and chill. Pretty decent exp for both, and it works all the way to 60.