Let's keep our team and class strategies in this thread for now. When there's more of it we can make various threads for distinct class and team strategies.

The first thing is a link to a thread on official forums which explains alot about threat in AoC:

http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=57156

(Read it Gardhar, especially the ranger+dark templar example.)

One thing, that's not included in the manual, neither the help for what I noticed.

When in combat (weapons in hands), you can double-tap direction keys, which displays a jump animation, and also grants you one of these short duration effects, depending on which button you double-tapped:

forward - a chance to stun with your attacks (not sure if it's melee only or not).
strafe left or right - a bonus to your magic resistance
back - a bonus to your evade chance

Effects are not cumulative (only the last one works).

This DOES make a difference, especially in PvP (stun chance!), so use it to the full effect.

[Edit:] Also, if you don't want to wait through the whole jump animaton after double-tapping you can use active blocking (default: x) to cancel the animation, but not it's effect.

A video PvP guide:

http://files.filefront.com/Mephs+Ragni+Entourage+lavi/;10700925;/fileinfo.html

something for rangers? ^^