Guild Wars 2

I find a lot of the sylvari racial skills are ranger-esque.
Grasping vines < Muddy Terrain
Thorn Wolf like the Sylvan hound starting pet
Turret skills for this ranged class
Druid and Nature spirits

I’ll usually choose ranger skills over sylvari skills because of traits. What do you think? Ranger diversification of skills, or pale imitations?

All racials are pale imitations. Though grasping vines is pretty good for a racial.

The healing seed vs. healing spring is the most obvious and lackluster comparison. The racial skill doesn’t even come close.

Charr get a lot of problems with this too when they go Warrior. Racial skills just aren’t as good as class specific skills, which is the way they’re supposed to be, but when they mimic the class that you are, it kind of defeats the purpose of having them.