DoRayEgon wrote on Nov 30
th, 2015 at 12:03pm:
For a Ranger icon at least 14 Ranger for TWF crits and Cure Serious. At least 3 Paladin or 3 Fighter for Stalwart Defense. Survivable enough from there with 3 Levels to spare.
I actually prefer 15 Ranger 4 Paladin 1 Rogue or 15 Ranger 3 Fighter 2 Barbarian.
By splashing 3 fighter or 3 pally to get:
+25 PRR and +25 MRR and +50% hate gen
You are giving up a ton of DPS:
+5% Melee Doublestrike when dual wielding,
+10% stacking chance to make off-hand attacks when dual wielding
+4 Dexterity,
+25% chance to doublestrike with your off-hand while dual wielding.
+10 Melee Power
10% Fortification bypass
+2 Damage when attacking Favored Enemies.
Clicky: Currently selected enemy receives -25% Fortification, -10 Armor Class, -10 Spell Resistance, and suffers a -4 penalty to all ability scores for 3 minutes. This effect also works on bosses and Raid bosses.
And the following defensive stuff:
+10 Physical Resistance Rating
+10 Magical Resistance Rating.
+5 Incorporeality (stacking)
+10 Positive Spell Power
That's an awful lot of DPS and other defensive abilities to lose for 15 PRR and 15 MRR.
Personally, I think it's a terrible trade off. And DWS and Tempest have so much to spend AP on, finding even 6 AP for stance and the PRR/MRR tier 1 boost is a challenge.