Why do people trash talk the Ranger?

[ieawenpo]

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

Rangers aren't bad - they're just misunderstood.

I grew up with a WE ranger from orc hill (at lvl 4 shortly before kunark was released) to farming mobs in HoHa... shiny brass shields to the windblade and practically every drop in between. He tanked *everything* and got us through every single mob our little cadre of non-affiliated hardcore players could handle, from Nagafen to Doomshade in UP. We took down Klandicar with seven people Mid-Luclin (pre-grieg's end) with 5 of the 7 sporting kunark level gear just for the fuck of it.

His name was Ieawenpo - and I hope that he finds his way here to P1999 - cause his ability would put all of you to shame, and I mean 'all of you' from the most ice ridden hoar-frosted regions of my heart.

Rangers are only bullshit in the hands of bullshit players... I watched this guy man up and handle anything we wanted to take down.

N' despite all you naysayers who lament on the amount of heals that had to be laid down - he constantly operated on a one Cleric one patch healer status... Cecil was the Cleric (HE) Bastile or Shoud were the Patchers (WE druids) We wiped maybe, in our 150+ raid targets.. 10.. 12 times, and he tanked every single time with a ranger by the name of Trajen as his off-tank 90% of the time (thank you guys for getting my monkey his earring of voracity off of DS!)

I have a low level ranger on p99 but run a pretty good guild on EZ server.

[ShadowWulf]

I love rangers, but I have an issue leveling them because of the xp penalty and the lower levels just SUCK. Im not the soloing type so ill group 24/7 but even then groups tend to pass up a ranger if a caster is available.

[Kevynne]

I like rangers. Geared well and played right, they can tank as well as pally/sk.
I also lik PALLIES alot c:

[Raavak]

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

I like rangers. Geared well and played right, they can tank as well as pally/sk.

No, they wear chain. But I think they out-dps the knights as a trade-off.

[Bubbles]

Originally Posted by Revixe06 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I just started rolling as a Ranger. Alot of the times when I announce that I'm looking for a group, people will start talking trash about the Ranger. Why is that? Whats wrong with them?

Actually, on second thought, if your ranger had been named "Revive", that would have been pretty awesome.

p.s. everyone talks trash about rangers, it does *not* mean they won't group with you if they have room. Be good natured about it and you'll see that 95% of it is good-natured ribbing.

[Bruster]

theyre good for taking death touches, that's about it

[Serith]

Because rangers make FD look like shit.

[Qian]

As I recall, part of the problem was ranger tended to be too good at dps at times, pull agro and then die. So there were a lot of jokes about rangers being dead all the time.

[guineapig]

You people need to start coming up with new ranger jokes instead of the same 10-year old jokes you keep repeating.

I feel like I'm hearing knock-knock jokes.

[eqgamer]

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

You people need to start coming up with new ranger jokes instead of the same 10-year old jokes you keep repeating.

I feel like I'm hearing knock-knock jokes.

Why didn't rangers get Feign Death?
















'Cuz the fall to the ground would kill em!