Guild Wars 2

I know most will say there is no real reason to “Farm” at 80 but looking at the legendary list of items some of it will have to be done. I get HUGE wife aggro fast, and she is immune to stun and silence so I have to have the option to just log off…

I have played both to 30 ish ( I hear Mes dont shine till 40 ish ) and I know Ranger is the Bot of choice, ( easier to control with said botting program ). Any one have high end exp with both? Thoughts?

I only have experience with a ranger, but yea depending on what you wanna do ranger should be your choice, there is no benefit of farming alone, considering how things slowly die, however when your in events as a ranger you can tag everything without a party. As long as you don’t use magic find gear. Since most attacks only take 1 hit to get a tag on a bunch of mobs. Longbow for barrage, then you can use a secondary weapon depending on your play style that has aoe. Make sure you have piercing arrow up. This lets your arrow hit multiple targets in a straight line, not always perfect but after a while during events u know where to stand a shoot to max out the hits. I do wish I had a MF set but I just can’t see myself not 1 hit tag, too comfortable and makes it easier on me. Btw a full mf set will only double your chance of “better” loot. And that chance could be .01% and be raised to .02%, it really is all preference – I got the same amount of rates/exotics as a thief with full magic find because the amount of mobs I get credit for far suppasses everyone. It also depends what events you do. Btw at 80 you be doing a lot of farming to get items you want.

Hopefully someone else can put in the Mesmer aspect

my high levels are actually a Ranger and Mesmer, and i started with Ranger up to level 40ish then switched to mesmer, got the mesmer to 80 then worked on the ranger.

Ranger is DEFINITELY easier to mitigate damage in a solo environment because you are in fact two people. You can avoid a lot of stationary big hits to your pet simply using the F3 (return to me) then switching back to F1 (attack my target). Using a short bow/consumable/sun spirit, you can apply stacks of bleeds/burns while still doing decent damage.

Mesmer i feel is more of a support class, but is kitten well good at it. But the mesmers goal, IMO, is keeping enemies distracted with clones, while your phantasms and your weapon skills do damage. It’s still a light armor class, so you dont want to be in the situation where you have to go blow for blow because chances are you (unless you are traited for it), youll be the loser.

Anyways, in case you didnt catch the obvious answer to your question, go Ranger.