This is my first entry into anything D&D / 5e honestly and the lack of identity kind of drew me to the ranger, I wanted to go for a melee front fighter but the barbarian and warrior trees seemed a bit too focused
Beast master ranger with the heavy armour proficiency ended up being the “do anything” class when I swapped between a couple
Think it’s a decent workaround that we can assume the parasites can “read” our thoughts and know the plan from the start, so would just stick around knowing they’ll be good.