2.5s cast 450 dmg nuke. If the ranger isn't needed on heal-duty and there's a chanter/bard in the group, kinda like having a pocket wizard/ghetto backstab.

Mained ranger on live; the answer is maybe in your Dreams. Ranger in classic its the worst class, but is rly rly fun to play and good rangers can shine at group, but...

In pure melee dps the warrior ranks better.
In overall dps, if the warrior does not use his discipline, the ranger is focused on dps with c2, casts nukes and does not get resisted, ranger ranks better.

That's a lot of ifs.
So yeah, overall, warriors outdamage rangers.

At least we rangers get some versatility and can help out with parking / ghetto heals.

Pre-Luclin rangers are for providing an EQ Classic hard-mode, plain and simple.

With woodsman staff u can nuke beetween hits, with epics doesnt worth as well as 2h weapon. A monk 35 can outdps a ranger 45 maybe more xD

watched epic ranger on p99 duel an epic monk.
if the Ranger epic slow proced early enough, (and stuck). the monk lost
If the ranger epic proced late, or not. the monk won

Cool story, but that doesn't really have anything to do with a competitive DPS comparison other than confirming that Monks do more DPS.

I would say until triple attack on a Warrior and no Disk a Ranger is nearly equal DPS wise. Their stats are pretty close caps wise. Try having a Warrior and a Ranger in a group and see who has agro 75% of the time, the Ranger. So that tells you something right there. :p

The big thing is a Warrior can take a ton of damage and a Ranger can't.

rangers never come close at all to our warriors on parses for raid mobs

rangers will do around 50 dps at best

it's normal for warriors to do over 100 dps

Aren't your raids 60-80 members typically? Meaning warriors have Discs active for 50%+ of the fight.

I don't think warriors are pulling in 100 DPS undisced. Maybe with damage shields while tanking?