Guild Wars 2

The problem with Ranger is most content in HoT is NOT one on one so your pet tank is pretty useless when your surrounded with vines lobbing poison at you, or mushrooms lobbing acid at you or Rangers DPSing you from three different directions or stuff charging you or rolling over you…

I have done fine with my Necro and Guard as each have tons of survival mechanics and my Dragon Hunter Guard is really a better ranger than my Ranger/Druid. The Dragon Hunter longbow has much better skills than the Ranger.

I have been playing Druid with staff for few days now, and I have say it pretty fun and pretty beastly elite specialization, healing is pretty awesome and insane to point that keep a pet alive when they are just face tanking a champion. I am being serious most of champ HP bosses fought with my Druid, my pet just face tank them like childs play. The Dps is actually not that bad but it is weaker compared to other classes reason that is because staff dps is suppose to be low dmg but super fast speed esp Soul Beam it 1.5 cast channel spell.

Gear I am running is new stats combo Crusader with Sup rune of Exu. with either Magi for more healing and tankyiness to the pet when facing a hard champ, to marauder accessories for more dps which in fact makes a huge difference.

I am liking the staff and glad that Rangers have it cause allows a lot towards healing and making your pet be the tank for a lot of solo play.

One last thing, Ranger could handle a lot of mobs at once in HoT if control pet through macros of attacking the dangerous targets first than kiting the melee ones as Ranger, and lastly knowing your surroundings, could even solo HoT events.