Guild Wars 2

I posted something similar on ranger forums as I am looking to take my guardian or ranger through PvE content. Most all I know about them and other professions is through pvp, currently rank 18.

My question is how is ranger DPS compared to other professions? I am curious as to what others with more exp have to say….

I ran some basic tests on golems with a stopwatch. Long story short, my ranger on average could down the golems 1.5 seconds faster then my guardian. This is of course using QZ and having my pet work perfectly. This also does not factor in guardian reactive damage.

Now 1.5 seconds is pretty nice considering how quickly the golems drop….however that is with using QZ, perfect pet and rotation….

In real pvp the pet becomes a less on the spot. Without QZ ranger damage goes down a lot. While the guardian killed a bit slower (not factoring in some skills I could not use properly vs golems) you have to factor in that the guardian is more durable, brings more team utility, more healing, has consistent damage and not reliant on steroid abilities.

I also play a lot of warrior and thief and I want to keep this simple so I won’t go into them much. I will say that they both have more on demand burst, strong sustained and can spec for greater team utility. Im mainly debating on what professions to make my main and focus on.

I like the ranger a lot, I find I am rooting for the ranger but PvP is my main focus and I just feel that something is really off with them. Their damage with say a jaguar and QZ up is great….otherwise it feels pretty average. Their durability is average. They bring nearly no group utility or support, you could go spirits but they are in a horrible state.

So from those who played more, are good at number crunching or run tourney teams….how is the ranger DPS wise? How well does it balance out with their overall kit?

I like em a lot but I feel like I would be handicapping myself to make them my main when I also love the guardian who feels far more useful while putting out more consistent damage and burst if ranger does not have QZ up.

Try putting more Pet traits up and use the Ogre 4 set rune cause your pet trait will also apply to the rock dog.

I use shortbow + Greatsword and focus on controling opponents while the pets do the dmg

I do often go 4 ogre runes for the rock dog. I typically run shortbow with axe / warhorn, typical QZ based build, I run a more trap heavy condition variant and also a condition bruiser build running sword with torch and axe with dagger.

Im just not seeing it, but am more then open to further suggestions as I want to see something im missing, i like the profession a lot.

I ran my ranger again for a while today and I did very well but then I also ran my guardian and did just as well while also being more useful. I know when fighting vs othe rangers on my guardian they are pretty much free food, 3 gap closers, 4 if you count GS number 5 skill means I stick to them like glue and they just crumple.

EDIT: I have ran greatsword often, it is my favorite weapon type in the game and while it is fun and somewhat effective it pales compared to warrior and guardian greatsword, it was far to heavily nerfed during the beta. I have also ran very pet heavy builds, sure the pet can solo bad thieves or warriors but smart players can deal with that no problem, pets are still to squishy and also highly prone to AoE death. If you run a very tanky pet you give up a ton of DPS and with so much of ranger damage invested in the pets it is a huge loss and for what exactly?