Guild Wars 2

After capping a necro, warrior and mesmer I finally decided to try a ranger knowing all the bad things my friends have told me about the profession. After getting past a lot of the frustrations as it had sort of a learning curve, I surprisingly like using my ranger.

People have always told me run short bow as my ranged weapon (I usually run a melee ranger) but I found myself liking the longbow as it seemed to hit harder. Pairing the wolf and krytan drakehound is also especially annoying because of all the stuns, fears and knockbacks with decent damage. I can see why people hate them in WvW because I haven’t much use for my ranger in terms of major support, I think it’s in PVP where they truly shine.

I agree to an extent, i actually find that i can kill most people with my power ranger, even s/d thieves. It’s probably partially because people don’t know how to counter power rangers though. The power ranger lb playstyle seems similar to my mesmer aswell, which i like =)

Ranger can work, but it’s definitely the weakest class right now. They might be less useless than in other game modes, but that doesn’t make them strong. Something to keep in mind about the SB vs LB debate is that the LB is a power weapon. The SB is good at stacking up bleeds, so people tend to use it more in condition builds, which are more popular on rangers. The only player who runs Power Ranger in high end play is Eurantien, but he pulls it off really well.

I have yet to see a ranger switch his lb/sb to 2nd weapon set

Then you’re playing against bad rangers. Good rangers will swap to the second weapon set as the situation calls for it.