Guild Wars 2

I have been an on/off player that’s not played for several months (due to playing SWTOR, and TF2), and I am looking for a class that plays ranged/melee with melee doing the most damage, but ranged doing a respectable amount, so what professtion would you suggest at the moment (preferably close ish to the SWTOR Vanguard/powertech) and for though who don’t know, its a ranged tank that can do decent ranged damage but excels in melee and is quite servivable and has plenty of options.
In short I what to be able to hit at all ranges (with out a charge) but getting close is the last thing you want to do!
Any suggestions?

Well, technically every profession in the game has ranged and melee options and can build tanky or damagy or hybrid.

Sounds like a warrior with rifle and axe/shield would suit your purposes well, or a rifle/bomb/toolkit engineer if you want a more demanding (lot of buttons) playstyle.

I’d second engineer, you get some great survivability with water fields+blasts, block skills, condi cleanses and blinds, with grenade kit (the current best for DPS if I’m not mistaken) being technically a ranged skill but working just about as well in melee range and dealing lots of damage if traited and built correctly. And then you can switch to bomb kit to fire/smoke field annoyances before switching back to nades