My main is a sk, and I get group invites all the time to tank. In many cases a ranger would do nearly as good a job as I would (and equal job if it's just the cleric CHing once per 3 minutes), while doing more dps. I think the biggest case for a ranger is that case.
Alternately as pure dps... an iksar monk has a 44% xp penalty vs 40% for a ranger. Yes a monk will do more dps, but not so much so that rangers should be shunned, especially during the leveling phase.
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