Why rangers don't suck

[Corrodith]

At level 60 w/ top end gear I find warriors actually tend to slightly out-dps me. Pre-kunark was a lot different, I used to show up just slightly under the rogues, and on par or above monks (mainly due to 5/14 hate whip as a mainhand weapon giving a big comparative advantage). Now rogues double or triple what I put out, monks usually at least 1.5-2x my output.

I can tank ok, about the hardest thing I can get away tanking is probably Drusella in HS.

We're not really that great on agro, ensnare is ok but fire dot isn't nearly as much agro as it apparently was on live. Good warriors with high end weapons are far superior.

Almost anybody can cast root so that's not really a huge deal.

Not sure about low levels, but I found woodsman staff to be garbage.

The Real Advantages:

- Tracking (the big one by far)
- Sow yourself!
- Clicky 50% haste cloak for solo or small groups
- Conflagration (450dmg, 2.5s cast nuke with a cooldown) will up DPS by about 5-10 if you have some mana regen going but it won't land on most raid mobs.
- Lots of minimally useful but fun utility stuff (bind sight, dispels, Sneak/Hide, 350 range bow shots, the extremely rare 400+ bow crit, clicky port to gfay, etc.)
- 270 pt heal is kinda laughable but in a pinch it can make a difference, and I can usually keep 2 or 3 necros topped off when they're lich'ing out doing mana dumps at a raid.