What's the purpose of a Ranger?

[stormlord]

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

Ranger only, 50 or 51 and above, Kunark. In now on P99. But your melee DPS is still better.

Thanks for replying.

Reason I ask is sometimes we need to do cc (especially for 2 or more targets). Using a bow in that situation is better than melee because it allows you to measure a situation better (wide angle view).

As I see it, you trade some dps for better situation awareness.

But in a situation like that you'd mostly be focused on keeping snare/root in place.

There may be situations where you need distance and are not within melee range of main target too. For example, if a mob is rooted and it breaks. You want some distance between you and it to reroot. But if being within distance of the main target to use melee requires being too close to your rooted mob(s) then using archery would allow you to keep proper distance and still attack the main target.

Reason I bring this up is because I was reading some forum posts somewhere else on the net and a ranger brought up how the luclin-era made viable archery rangers for a while. He commented that this made rangers better at CC because of being able to see the situation from a distance. I think there's some merit.

Can anyone think of other ways that it could be justified? (other than to point out my errors in judgement about what i think are ways that justify its use in specific cases)