Rangers

[PurelyElf]

Rangers are a great pvp class.

[Xanthias]

If you know what you are doing:

Rangers are DPS and can actually avoid aggro
Rangers are CC, chanter just died by mez failure or pet breaking charm yet again. Root works wonders.
Rangers can tank, scary as it sounds rangers can tank, granted cleric needs to actually pay a bit more attention than normal but it is possible as yes rangers can HOLD aggro as well.

Sorry Rangers aren't warriors, where you hit attack and just wait.
Rangers aren't wizards where you sit, afk, then stand at last 20% and nuke.

The biggest problem with rangers isn't the class it is the people who play it who think they don't have to do anything, but hit attack and wait for stuff to die.

Played Ranger from beta through PoP on live, did nearly every high end raid in each expansion.

Rangers are the ultimate utility player and to play them well is a challenge.

[Slave]

Rangers track better than anyone. As an example, Rangers can track the PHs of Quillmane and hold down the spawn rotation which NO OTHER CLASS can do. Because there is a simply a large chance that the PH will spawn outside of the tracking range of another class, and destroy your cycle.

[JenJen]

Quillmane is reason enough to play a rng right yendie?!

[deneauth]

Quillmane was the origional reason I started a ranger, but playing both a ranger and warrior I can say that I enjoy playing the ranger more. Although it is way easier to get groups with the warrior still sadly.

Edit - And I can't play the ranger while getting raging drunk. As a warrior all you do is slam taunt and kick/slam depending on whether the mob is a caster or not, so it's real easy to drink and play. Getting drunk then going ranging sucks haha.

[Doors]

Originally Posted by Zuranthium [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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When I say this is not World of Warcraft I'm talking about the community. People make posts like this all the time because they want to know how valid a class is before they roll it. Meaning they want to know if they can get groups or raids or a guild invite.

When I say this isn't World of Warcraft I mean that on this server you don't have a community of raging dumbasses and teenagers that are going to shit all over you for picking a class that doesn't have any significant impact on group or raid aspects of Everquest. But yeah whatever you're talking about, good luck with that.

The class is fine. I've talked to rangers post 50 and they do just fine on here. Pre 50 anyone will be fine no matter what class they pick. The smart ones form their own groups and tank usually. Can't really speak for the raiding aspect of the game on here though concerning rangers.

[YendorLootmonkey]

Originally Posted by Doors [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

on this server you don't have a community of raging dumbasses and teenagers that are going to shit all over you for picking a class that doesn't have any significant impact on group or raid aspects of Everquest.

LOL.... what?! Try "/ooc ranger LFG" sometime as a post-50 ranger and take note of the responses you get. I get shit on in my own guild's guildchat. Never mind the fact in a guild seb group last night the monk and tank died multiple times and the ranger, who switched off between pulling, tanking, dpsing, crowd control, and even slowing, did NOT die once. :P

[orsk]

So is a ranger like 50% druid 50% warrior this thread is so confusing.

[deneauth]

Haha yeah ranger's can do it all really just like Yendor was saying. And now rangers get a sword that proc's slow so yes they can even slow enemies in groups, as well as all the other stuff Yendor was talking about. Yendor is like the A #1 super ranger of the server too, I am not being a smart ass. Don't group with him that much but when I do, I always learn something about ranging that I didn't know before.

[xshayla701]

Originally Posted by orsk [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So is a ranger like 50% druid 50% warrior this thread is so confusing.

hahahaa