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[ShadowHM]

Blessed Aim merc is superfluous if you use a partial Angelic Raiment set (amulet, ring and armor).

While this will deliver a lot of AR boost, it is also extremely limiting, in that you have taken up three slots that could be devoted to resists (always a concern for characters with no shields), pluses to minimum damage, pluses to skills and other tasty affixes. :o

I am a fan of hiring mercenaries who will fill holes in your set-up. A Blessed Aim mercenary fills the bill, in this case. B)

On the other hand, if one is going with Fanaticism as the primary aura, it is possible that a Holy Freeze mercenary will be your best friend instead. And, if one is going with a hybrid set-up, with a mêlée attack on weapon switch, it would be hard to go wrong with a Crescent Moon weapon and Holy Shock.

Edit: by the way, the comments in the thread that I linked to above notwithstanding, as far as I know the original creator of the Ranger variant for Paladins is Rhydderch Hael. I lost all my favourites links in a hard drive crash last fall, but I had bookmarked his original posts way back when on the topic. He inspired my first Ranger back in Classic D2. :)