Rangers? Rangers! Rangers.

[Aadill]

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

Question for rangers - Do you buy tank gear for the times you need to tank in groups? For the most part I'm geared toward DPS which makes me look even more weak when I'm asked to tank. I'm saving up cash and could potentially buy a pair of Jade Maces or Lamentations in the next week or so OR I could buy tank gear, but not both.

Buy DPS gear and /ooc rogue LFG.

Buy tank gear and end up soloing.

That's kinda where this thread is pointing.. heh. In all honestly, though, I went with as much HP as I could muster since I went Human instead of Wood Elf like most people do. I went with tank gear and never had an issue in leveling/grouping/tanking/DPSing.

[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.

[Anderdale]

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

Buy DPS gear and /ooc rogue LFG.

Buy tank gear and end up soloing.

That's kinda where this thread is pointing.. heh. In all honestly, though, I went with as much HP as I could muster since I went Human instead of Wood Elf like most people do. I went with tank gear and never had an issue in leveling/grouping/tanking/DPSing.

wow beat me to it. Seriously though, i post in /ooc rogue lfg. Usually can get a group that way. Usually no one can tell until i start healing. Btw if you use this tactic don't be wearing ivy etched or any green ranger shit.

[YendorLootmonkey]

I used to go /anon and wear mithril/silver plated leggings, hammer head helm, etc and /ooc warrior LFG.

It worked until mobs started hitting me and the cleric's superior heals replenished half of my HP bar.

[stormlord]

I don't know where the disconnect is either but...

Ranger gate is a smashing success. That one feature alone dwarfs all others.

So for me it's no contest. Never understood anybody that players other classes.

I can insta gate pretty much anytime anywhere. Nobody can beat that.

[Kender]

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

I don't know where the disconnect is either but...

Ranger gate is a smashing success. That one feature alone dwarfs all others.

So for me it's no contest. Never understood anybody that players other classes.

I can insta gate pretty much anytime anywhere. Nobody can beat that.

the real trick is gating with all your gear still

[quellren]

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

Which is ironic because, if I recall correctly, geared-up level 50 rangers in classic were actually badass... the problems with our damage mitigation really didn't surface until post-50 in Kunark where shit hit a lot harder and the DPS gap widened substantially for the melee classes.

This is what I remember as well. I remember a well geared Ranger doing enough DPS in SolB royals that we had to root everything down to use proximity aggro, otherwise Ranger DPS caused him to tank every fight.

There's so few rangers here on P99 I've never really been able to judge if it's the same here. Although, I grouped with Zilo in Seb and he was great... Kinda gives me hope that the rep is (somewhat) undeserved.