New Ranger on red
 

Rolling ranger.

Should I do it? Can I get my lightning sticks?

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no

Yes, and yes.

Rangers are fun and can be effective when played well despite being more or less intrinsically inferior to many other classes. They have special tricks up their sleeves and are a lot of fun to play and adventure with in EQ.

I had a tough choice between making a ranger and a cleric but ultimately chose my cleric because the clerics abilities let them be more helpful in more meaningful ways, more often.

The ranger is a great class to actually role play a ranger and just cruise around open zones being cool, and in velious they PVP o.k. too.

Rangers have gotten popular on red because they make pretty good PKers, particularly with resists being the way they are. It's nice to be able to fire your bow at levitating wizards and such. And I've seen people with the lightning sticks. But it's still a challenging class to play and rangers face many of the same problems here as they do on blue.

If you want to play a ranger, play a ranger. If you want to be the best (there ever was), then play something else.

rangers are only good at level 15 in crushbone or unrest

Rangers are good but only after getting 60 and at least epic and some sky gear plus full resist jewelry and other things. If you did get a windstriker in group PVP they're amazing. Solo you can do ok, but not great.

It's a long road to that though. You're better off starting with a farm class like enchanter or shaman who are also strong in PVP then rolling a melee twink.

Still arent popular but a lot of people make twinks and then give up. good rangers exceedingly rare. Main rangers even rarer.

terrible spells, terrible melee dmg

bow dmg on eq emu is like 0 , yea if you get a windstriker you get a crappy stun proc, but that wont kill your enemy.

I really wish people would stop telling everyone to roll a farm class. I've been watching so many shamans/druids get bored and quit because they don't enjoy playing those classes.

I have personally watched plenty of people roll a pure melee here, or a hybrid as their first toon and make it to 60. Here is the catch, they have fun because they are playing what they want to play.