Or maybe explorer if you feel like it - that will give you more tolerance towards non-home terrains. Don't bother with the fancy as your first ranger char, go with default. Treat it as a learning experience, don't be disparaged if you die, pick yourself up and try again.

General newbie ranger pointers:

1) Stay in the wilds. It is very important to be "at home" for many ranger skills, this is most noticeable with fastcamo, but matters across every skill. Don't even do the academy post the leather quest, finish it and leave for the wilds. Set your prompt accordingly.

2) Pay special attention to your terrain. It will be in caps and your skills also depend on being there. Some plain don't work in other terrains, some are reduced in effectiveness.

3) Rangers are for the patient - set a perfect trap and execute on it.

4) Waylay beats regular ambush 90% of the time because of the lack of lag since it can be followed by a bearcharge.

5) Join outlanders, this will keep you less bored than you'd be otherwise.

6) Bearcharge is size-based. If you have someone in a snare and want to kill them, quaff an enlarge, waylay and bearcharge. Sometimes it will work.

7) Magic is your friend. Talismans are useful in a wide variety of situations, explore IC.