I’m a little biased since Engie is my main so take this with a grain of salt. When I go up against a ranger in WvW I have NO fear of losing.At all. If they had the option to put the pet away ranger might be decent in PvE.
Kaa Mchorror NSP grenadier [hayt]
As someone who doesn’t main both classes, I’ll choose Ranger – simply because it’s underdog.
Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici
Ranger is fine for open world pve. People seem to forget that the pet is a weapon. Pets can be fiddley though in a dungeon situation and in heavy aoe they don’t last long unfortunately.
Engineers are a different fun. They can be pretty decent for crowd control and the kits are good for area damage. Turrets are good for attracting the attention of mobs but, like ranger pets, they won’t stand up very well in a dungeon against a mass of mobs. From memory anyway since I haven’t taken an engineer into a dungeon since February.
Both classes are great underwater.
Fire up the Hyperbowl ma, we’re going to town!
Would you like some hard cheeze with your sad whine?
Nice answers so far.
I do know most ppl will be biased towards their mains but what I want is more like a number comparison.
As it stands it also seems that there are quite a lot of rangers and most are playing their class narrow-mindedly, wich imo may make other players question themselves wether they want a ranger or not in their dung…
Pet using classes, and anything called Ranger, seem to have a horrible reputation in just about any mmo I’ve ever played. Plus rangers who only use a longbow and use #4 on mobs while melees are beating on them don’t do much for the general reputation either.
Fire up the Hyperbowl ma, we’re going to town!
Would you like some hard cheeze with your sad whine?
I’m a little biased since Engie is my main so take this with a grain of salt. When I go up against a ranger in WvW I have NO fear of losing.At all. If they had the option to put the pet away ranger might be decent in PvE.
It’s funny, as a ranger, I feel the same way when I face an engineer in a 1v1 fight in WvW.
Don’t get me wrong, a skilled engineer is hard to kill, but they are so few and far between due to how complex the class is.
As for rangers, most players I find online seem to use a longbow and they don’t tend to last long in a fight (which is where I’m assuming most people get the “free lootbags” idea from) but a skilled ranger with the right build will win most fair fights.
For the OP, use engineer if you are good at swapping utilities and using the function buttons efficiently and don’t want to watch out for a pet. Or use a ranger if you don’t mind managing a pet and just want to focus on weapon skills and dodging.
Brotherhood of Blub [blub]
I main an Engi and have my second alt Ranger as my farmer in berserkers gear so I know both classes pretty well.
I love my engi for everything. He is a survival build however, but with my traits he can also dish out a fair amount of damage while surviving. He does great in all modes; PvE, PvP, WvW and dungeons/fractals.
Now my ranger was also just as good when I had him in a survival build as well. But he does even better now that I have decked him out in full berserkers. The trick here is to use a full 30 points on the pet trait line and choose the right pets to use for the right situations. I use a Longbow as my mainhand because its fun and with my berserkers gear, pet traits I dish out massive damage in PvE and kill enemies very fast. I choose the cat stalker as my main pet and only switch to a bear if I need extra soaking of damage from champs or to use the F2 skill to remove conditions.
For WvW you die fast as a ranger in berserkers but can do pretty well in survival gear. I need to get a second set of survival gear for my ranger for WvW again.
Anywho I hope you find a class to play with.
Since when did this business of being a hero become being a business?
Go warrior or mesmer and stop playing inferior classes.
Azreell – Mesmer
Loyalty To None
Go warrior or mesmer and stop playing inferior classes.
Imho, it’s better to play inferior class which is fun for you, than become an inferior player which is bored to death, just sayin’….
While what you said is a noble ideal indeed.
After playing mmorpgs for so long – I have learned each game has certain classes which it favors from start to end.
It’s obvious which classes anet has chosen.
The end result for a ton of player’s is why work twice has hard for less results.
Azreell – Mesmer
Loyalty To None
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