by Kianor » Wed Jan 30, 2008 6:15 am
On a ranger - I've occasionally 2-boxed a ranger, though not much since I don't really like 2 boxing. If the ranger is well enough geared, they're not bad tanks. Obviously not as good as a knight or warrior, but similar to a monk. At lower levels, ranger tanking is fine, at higher levels, the gear needs more work. I used to duo with a ranger tanking, and that worked well. The ranger needs more healing than a knight partner, but the mobs are dead quicker so it evens out.
Alternatively, you could root/rot with the shaman and have autofire on with the ranger. As long as you have the archery AAs and a decent bow, that's not a bad way of doing things, and less effort on the ranger. I used to do it that way a bit, but that's partly because I wasn't very good at 2-boxing (I didn't like not playing the shaman at 100%) so I treated the ranger as a bit of extra ranged dps.