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07-31-2020, 01:57 PM
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People are in denial about Rangers being bad.
I’m sure all of those threads from 20 years ago claiming Rangers sucked are all hogwash and it was just because people didn’t know how to play a video game 20 years ago.
I’m sure Verant agreeing with the player base and later buffing Rangers in numerous ways was just a coincidence. I’m sure the dozens of Rangers I’ve grouped with are just bad players, and that .01% of Rangers are actually good — maybe not as good as a Warrior or Bard, but at least almost as good as a Shaman’s pet. | ||
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07-31-2020, 02:25 PM
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Rangers aren't bad per se (in Velious) and thinking they are "bad" is pretty ignorant. (Though I'd say they are kinda bad mechanically in classic and Kunark)
They are like marginally less dps than a similarly geared monk or warrior. They have knight-like snap agro and are pefectly fine at tanking slowed mobs or sub-level 45 mobs. The problem is it's 20 years later and many people know what the best classes are and how to play them to maximize their abilities. So enchanters are everywhere, depreciating ranger utility. Epic'd rogues (or on green, mages) are everywhere, depreciating ranger dps. Mastery of warrior mechanics has trickled down to the commonfolk, or sparing that, most people know how to use utility (root) to manage agro, or go without tanks entirely, depreciating ranger tanking. However, this is precisely one of the reasons why Green is so fucking lame. Armies of enchanters and mages everywhere you go, steamrolling everything. The game is figured out, the cheese is Kraft Singles® and it's widely available to every elf household. A ranger is a statement, a manifesto, classic Everquest in its truest and purest form. An RPG, not a spreadsheet. | ||
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