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IMO, ranged is severly underrated by many players. My favourite stategy is to bombard the meanies with disabling/damage spells until I've had enough and simply pick 'em off with ranged weapons when they're weak and feeble. If I do it right, I don't waste too much ammo and I don't deplete my mana reserves either, but best of all, the meanies are all dead before they can do anything serious to my hit points.
Sometimes, melee is pretty much inevitable, especially against bosses, so it pays to have 1 or 2 guys that can hold their own toe to toe. Melee parties are good at killing a few meanies really quickly, but I've found that a ranged/magic party is faster when I'm facing several meanies at once.
BTW I think Rangers are simply killing machines. Ranged criticals occur, on average, about twice a battle (for me anyway). No other profession I have played gets more crits than that except maybe a faerie ninja.
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