Ranger Tanking 40+

[JenJen]

a post mentioning the word "ranger" - i know for a fact without reading this entire thread there will be posts by duie, yendor and aadill, amirite?

[JenJen]

damn, 2 out of 3

[baalzy]

Rangers get some ATK buff from wolf form that a warrior probably wont get. Aside from that, rangers aren't going to be doing an incredibly higher amount of DPS then a warrior would while the warrior will be mitigating damage a crapload better. Ranger spells will help a little if used for boosting DPS, but they wouldn't be able to keep it up for long w/o needing a med break.

Remember, whoever is tanking takes a hit in their dps because mobs will dodge/riposte you. People who are DPS'ing hit from the back and so they dont get dodges/ripostes and they also get fewer misses & their hits are in the higher end of their damage range more often.

[beeshma_nameless]

Isnt Wurmslayer primary only? Or did it become primary only later, and currently it can be equipper in secondary also?

[jrwriter]

Here's my 2 cents 56th ranger love me hate me ghostfaces Killah I tank over half my grP do kc seb. And. Do it like a pro thing is ifnu got a shm and a cleric in ur Grp any ranger can tank anything and if no slowers around I've done a 5 dps cleric or shm combo swarmcaller is niche. But I kno what I'm doin most rngs wont be capable what I do I swear prolly a few o ya I got 2 hander that procs rune 3 runed blade

[jrwriter]

O ya a rng with 2 wurmmys will have bad Agro cause wpn don't proc hate and their slow

[Troy]

I want a Runed Blade.

[alexandervaccaro]

so.. are rangers simply good for nothing? I was thinking about twinking one but... yikes.

[greatdane]

Depends how you look at it. Rangers are pretty much the worst of any category you can place them in - worst tanks, worst melee DPS, worst heals and buffs, worst soloers of the classes that can be considered soloable at all... but they can do a lot of things, and some find value in that. The game is easy enough that you don't have to have an optimal group or raid setup to succeed, so a ranger won't cause wipes on account of being a ranger. It's just hard to get invited when everyone knows you're the worst at whatever job you're needed for.

[Sajan]

An older post from last year by Azeth comes to mind when I read this thread..

all this ranger QQ good grief. I fail to see the issue with Rangers.

Do they out DPS anyone? yes.
Do they out tank anyone? yes.
Do they have more buffs than at least 1 other class? yes.
Are those buffs useful in solo/group? yes.
Can they solo more efficiently than at least 1 other class? yes.


If you love the ranger class, play a ranger. If you played a rogue, wiz, mage, necro in live, it is not the class for you.

edit: have you ever seen a Rogue solo anything worth noting? no.

You can talk about spells, defensive/offensive caps, whatever. The player is the intangible that cannot be measured here. EverQuest is not hard, but taking a less-than-desirable class and making it excel at things it shouldn't do, and having fun while doing it, is the difficult, yet most rewarding path I could ever imagine to take.

No, I don't enjoy logging on and being LFG for hours on end, constantly looking for others to slap together a ragtag group with...

But yes, I do enjoy getting invited to a group and not knowing what my role is going to be! There's really nothing I hate more than logging on an alt and going LFG to only tank, or only heal. Depending on the zone and group makeup, I could be tanking, DPSing, CCing, pulling, or all of the above! While leveling up, I did atleast 3/4 of those things in just about any group I was involved with, while they sat back and watched. Was it the most efficient way? No... Did it beat sitting around wasting time while waiting on the holy trinity to log on? Absolutely!

I play a mid 50s Ranger here on P99. I carry different sets of gear with me at all times for different situations, because I know, as a Ranger, I need that extra boost to accommodate the skill I pride myself applying to this class. This is part of being prepared. Yes, I tank in KC, Chardok, Sebilis, and HS just fine with my full set of hp/ac gear equipped. Granted, most of my groups include a solid Cleric and a slower + mana regen. With Snare/Root, I can guarantee that all mobs pulled will be hitting me 100% of the time. So that Cleric will only need to CH me, nothing more. The biggest downtime creator is having a mob switching between targets and beating on multiple people, sucking your healer's mana dry. Can a Knight do the same job? Yes. Is a Knight always going to be around? No. You take what you can get. And maybe, just MAYBE your Ranger will be prepared for any situation as well!

P.S. I'm probably one of the few people here that enjoys tracking raid mobs. I spend many hours of my free time this summer ensuring my guild's cell phones receive my tweets before anyone else. I pride myself on having my guild trust me enough to log off every night, knowing I'm the Ranger that's left watching, hunting, tracking....