How to Ranger

[Hiragawa]

First off... RANGA DOWN!
Second... How to ranger... Take death touches!

But anyhow. Green has a lot of good points. Although if I remember correctly from my tanking days... Best ratio is in your off hand, lowest delay is in your main hand. Unless you 'need' a proc or some such. (But that may have been tanking. I didn't do a melee dps in years.)

Your bow... You're going to use it mostly for pulling, but it can be used in conjunction with Snare/SoW and a wide open area to "Bow Kite" when soloing mobs that hit too hard. Just keep in mind that bow damage didn't really... do much... until AA's (which we won't see here)

The 40% exp penalty is painful, but despite the stigma of rangers, and SOE constantly killing the class over the years, they're really good in the right hands.