Guild Wars 2

Hello all, I’m a pretty new player (started in April including a big break) and I’m just looking for a fun far ranged profession to play.
Currently tried:
Warrior (80) I might retry it with the longbow, but the odds are low I’m ever going to be interested in warrior.
Engineer (70) While I like the amount of diversity the prof has and enjoys it, he doesn’t feel like a serious ranged prof.
Guardian(30) scepter doesn’t feel fun, and preference bunker guardian in pvp, dragon hunter would be interesting though.
Ranger (15) face of the ranged professions, I’ve been enjoying longbow+drake together with sword/greatsword, going to try shortbow sometime soon, been reading about a lot of hate towards him in the forums, which I feel like is putting me off, definitely going to try more before forming a serious opinion.
Mesmer (15) just greatsword+phantoms for leveling, feels fun but going to try more.
Necromancer (10) feels more melee based, and DShroud’s bolls don’t feel fun for me.
That’s all I’ve tried for now, anything I’ve been totally misunderstanding? How is it with the other professions?
Thief is close ranged for probably ever and I don’t enjoy stealthy gameplay in other games, not sure how it is with revenant, tried elementalist but didn’t liked the mechanics, felt to tired after playing him.

Second topic: shouts
I like them, they feel powerful and fun when I’m playing bunker guardian with shouts, and since shoutbow is apparently meta now I might try him, I just dumped my warrior since with leveling I felt like I had to stick with the greatsword, on which I find 2 the most boring and stupid skill to be loved and used by everyone, I also seems like I can get rid of the greatsword in anything except conquest, but that might just be me.
Ranger shouts doesn’t look interesting, but that might just be me, any tips?

Oh, and sorry if this is in the wrong forum, but since this is talking about all the professions I thought posting them in the generals would be good.

I think you might enjoy dragonhunter or ranger, ranger even gets ranged pets.

You could try mesmer is also a lot melee based, dragonhunter could be your thing, and ranger obviosly is ranged

almost all classes is ranged and melee, the only exception is engineer and elementalist all their weapon skills got some range.

Okido, sounds good, thanks a lot!

A lot of the ranger hate is due to two reasons, the pet and how easily the class can carry a bad player.

Rangers by themselves are actually below the normal for damage, that’s because they have a pet to make up for the missing share of it. However, pets are pretty effing stupid. They stand there and take damage that a player would avoid, they’re slow to respond to commands, and they can be a bit unpredictable. This all results in the pet getting the player into trouble, or dying and leaving them under-powered. This can be a special problem in dungeons, where tactics and control are valued.

The second problem is that the class can be very easy to play out in the open world. So easy, that many players developed bad habits playing it. I mean, they may be good habits for staying alive as a ranger, but they don’t mesh well with how team mechanics and buffs work in GW2. Standing away from the team prevents the sharing of buffs, and the use (abuse?) of knockback arrow is the bane of anyone trying to melee a target. (It’s worth noting that rangers are not the only ones that do this, they’re just the ones most people think of.)

Ranger IS a good class, even if the stupidity of the pet limits it at times. Don’t be afraid to play it. The fact that you’re going into melee with it suggests that you’ve avoided the bad habits of the class anyway.

Palador.2170:

A lot of the ranger hate is due to two reasons, the pet and how easily the class can carry a bad player.

Rangers by themselves are actually below the normal for damage, that’s because they have a pet to make up for the missing share of it. However, pets are pretty effing stupid. They stand there and take damage that a player would avoid, they’re slow to respond to commands, and they can be a bit unpredictable. This all results in the pet getting the player into trouble, or dying and leaving them under-powered. This can be a special problem in dungeons, where tactics and control are valued.

The second problem is that the class can be very easy to play out in the open world. So easy, that many players developed bad habits playing it. I mean, they may be good habits for staying alive as a ranger, but they don’t mesh well with how team mechanics and buffs work in GW2. Standing away from the team prevents the sharing of buffs, and the use (abuse?) of knockback arrow is the bane of anyone trying to melee a target. (It’s worth noting that rangers are not the only ones that do this, they’re just the ones most people think of.)

Ranger IS a good class, even if the stupidity of the pet limits it at times. Don’t be afraid to play it. The fact that you’re going into melee with it suggests that you’ve avoided the bad habits of the class anyway.

I was going to offer some kind words about how Ranger/Hunter characters tend to draw hate in every MMO, but..

This guy sums up the most egregious issues all at once.