Rangers, decent tanks?

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

A ranger without weaponshield disc (2003 I think?) is going to die tanking anything but classic encounters. For typical camp the item pickup groups, it's a non-issue. A ranger can tank just fine in that situation. But you're never going to put a ranger in this era, up against Innoruuk as your primary tank; it's probably trivial for Terror/Fright/Dread/Dracolich though. I highly doubt you'll see rangers in Kunark tanking Overking Bathesid or Venril Sathir until they've maximum geared the content. I remember rangers on live soloing some mean crap when trueshot disc went in, but I never really saw a ranger pre-Luclin be able to tank anything that hit hard enough to require a dedicated tank (VT gear changed things a little, probably to mitigate how hard Luclin mobs hit)

Nobody here is saying they can tank raid mobs, everybody is talking about group shit.

Weaponshield (all hybrid 55/60 discs) went in with Velious IIRC, so that was the end of 00 / beginning of 01.