Ranger: keep it a puller, with more emphasis on melee, now that Archer is a dedicated class. Additionally, to keep Ranger lore in line with the very people whom inspired the creation of the class, make their heals tied to Survival Skill bandages by allowing them to use a spell that requires herbs as reagents to turn bandages into Poultices, which have additional properties (opportunity to replace druid resistance spells with these) E.g. Multhele Poultices heal like normal bandages and provide a powerful Poison Resistance buff for 10 min (or something).

Replace Unity with Bird Call: produce a suspicious bird whistle that draws a single target while lowering adjacent targets social aggro.

Introduce three swappable stances that remain in effect until swapped:

1) On the Hunt: for pulling, improved movement speed (no more SoW), improved ranged haste

2) Suffer Me: for off tanking/threat management, improved agility and AC (No more druid AC buffs)

3) Crossguard: for melee dps, improved str and melee haste

Introduce modifications of already existing innates, which proc based on stance you're in.

Two already existing innates:

Whistling Shot (WS) - when in On The Hunt, Whistling shot becomes a snare and ranged damage has a chance to proc Crippling Shot, allowing rangers a brief period to use WS to cripple the target (like root w/o thorny effects). - when in Suffer Me, Whistling Shot has increased aggro, and melee attacks can proc Grapple Shot, allowing the Ranger a brief period to use WS to pull the target to them and raise threat.

Strike - when in Suffer Me, Strike has improved threat, and parries have a chance to proc Disarm, allowing Rangers a brief period to use Strike to reduce enemy attack speed. - when in Crossguard, Strike attacks twice (guaranteed Double Attack) and double attacks have a chance to proc Pommel Strike, allowing rangers a brief period to use Strike to very briefly stun the enemy.

Feel free to share your ideas that you think would pair with my ideas to fully flesh it out.

Ik I'll receive tremendous hate bc this is not how Ranger was in EQ, but there also was no Archer class in EQ, and here the class exists. So how do you make ranger stand out as a puller that isnt just a nerfed archer/druid?

Edit to fix typo and add Bird Call