"A ranger tanks slightly better than a rogue unless you go out of your way to get tank gear, meaning Tolan's pieces and such, in which case it becomes slightly worse than a shadowknight/paladin. You'll also have a bit less hp. I'd put it like this:"
Armor class atm is not working as it should. you can take a warrior in full colbalt and a warr in full crafted and they are both gonna get hit the same amount given same level and same level mob. class and level have more to do w/ Mitigation atm than AC. Test it yourself
With that being said. Rangers Were to be a LIGHT AGILE TANK in the original "Vision@tm" of EQ .This basicly means that if you get hit , you are gonna get hit hard, But you will avoid A lot more blows than a heavy tank would where the higher mitigation will receve less damage per hit.
On live and here my lvl 49 Ranger can tank just fine as long as I keep the above in persepsion. You wont ever see my ass trying to tank for a seb group or any other place where stuff has hit my war of over 100+ dmg. TBTO I Try my best to avoid kunark all together on the ranger unless 1) i know the tank to be good at keeping agro or 2) Someone needs a hand tracking. In reality The Ranger class has not and will not change from the original vision in this era. what has and will continue to change is the amount of damage a mob can dish out . Those monks tanking now , wont be in SoV
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