Guild Wars 2

or do you know any reason why nearly all old top rangers left the game and don’t play in a team anymore?!

it’s just impossible to find a build workign well enought compared to the other professions.

every other profession overshine the ranger profession so hard atm.

it’s just an joke to play this profession right now, there is no reason to pick up a ranger in a team after the last patches anymore.

sadly this forum is full of ele/mes/engi fanboys and full of ranger haters.
that’s the only reason i can understand why anet still fail so kitten buffing ranger to bring it into the line of beeing useful enough to pick it up instead of ele, thief or warrior.
not just useful enough to be maybe the 5. player in a team since 2 years… -.-

i just go to engi and instantly feel stronger on this profession than on my ranger… and i’m not even strong on engi yet.
same for playing as warrior, d/d elementalist or s/d thief.
everything is just so much more usefull in a team than a ranger.

Spirits and condi rangers are still going strong. Many successful teams don’t have a ranger, because they rather rely on stacking eles and engis. That has more to do with how celesital ammy synergizes with the current ele and engi builds than with ranger being just bad. Many strong comps don’t run thief/necro/mesmer either. Ranger is fine, it’s the current cele ele/engi dominance that needs to be fixed. Making ranger the new OP profession wouldn’t improve the overall situation at all.

I was kinda missing these non-objective and totally uninformed topics that OP tends to make.

So what is your argument this time Ragnar?

“Engi feel stronger”….

Well, i “feel stronger” when i get drunk, but i aint getting any stronger by drinking. So your feelings have little to do with balance i am afraid.

Nitesky.6427:

Many strong comps don’t run thief/necro/mesmer either.

Lol what. With exceptions, all the strongest EU comps run Thief and Mesmer. They have great efficiency together.

And without exceptions, all the strongest NA comps run Thief. There’s a shortage of high tier Necro players but if people would master the profession, pretty much every NA comp would run a terror Necro as well.

Necros, Thieves, Mesmers, these are the professions that rip Cele builds apart when played properly. Since NA has many cele Eles/Engies, it’s only logical, my man.

Prysin.8542:

I was kinda missing these non-objective and totally uninformed topics that OP tends to make.

So what is your argument this time Ragnar?

“Engi feel stronger”….

Well, i “feel stronger” when i get drunk, but i aint getting any stronger by drinking. So your feelings have little to do with balance i am afraid.

Valid argument :C

Prysin.8542:

I was kinda missing these non-objective and totally uninformed topics that OP tends to make.

So what is your argument this time Ragnar?

“Engi feel stronger”….

Well, i “feel stronger” when i get drunk, but i aint getting any stronger by drinking. So your feelings have little to do with balance i am afraid.

and i was missing my wvw boy speaking about tpvp when not even playing in this game area <3

I’ve always found Ranger extremely powerful.

Unfortunately the class, in my opinion, is so incredibly easy that it is boring to play.
Fun to dive in for one or two games every now and then, watching as the character completely dominates the battlefield, but laughing at my cat pawing my keyboard is fleeting entertainment at best.

Ragnar.3916:

Prysin.8542:

I was kinda missing these non-objective and totally uninformed topics that OP tends to make.

So what is your argument this time Ragnar?

“Engi feel stronger”….

Well, i “feel stronger” when i get drunk, but i aint getting any stronger by drinking. So your feelings have little to do with balance i am afraid.

and i was missing my wvw boy speaking about tpvp when not even playing in this game area <3

Been playing pvp exclusively for 5-6 months. Granted, I play it less (hour wise pr session) then I did WvW

Brew Pinch.5731:

I’ve always found Ranger extremely powerful.

Unfortunately the class, in my opinion, is so incredibly easy that it is boring to play.
Fun to dive in for one or two games every now and then, watching as the character completely dominates the battlefield, but laughing at my cat pawing my keyboard is fleeting entertainment at best.

sadly warrior, necro and guardian are also incredibly easy to play.
same for celestial ele builds and engi, just more skills that’s all.
only difference between ranger and them, they dominate tpvp actually, ranger not.

for thief and mesmer (maybe) you heave to spend a bit more time to find out how to rotate, but not so much more.

this game is designed to learn every profession easy.
but it’s still possible to master every profession and find out the little tricks to make you a superior player of this profession when you spend more time on it.

every player just play a bit ranger is still not good enough even if it’s a easy to learn profession.

easy to play is no argument in this game.
there is no single profession need a super high skill level.
at least if you want to speak about a profession need much skill then i would say as ranger you need actually a good skill level, simply because every other profession overshine it so hard at the moment.

of course it depends on what build you focus to play on ranger, but it doesn’t matter what build you choose, there is always an other profession can do it much better to be more useful for a serious team.

there is not much you can say why you would prefer to play with a ranger in a team, simply because there is nothing special a ranger can bring to a conquest team.

why a team should pick up a power ranger instead of a thief or mesmer?
to play a thief/power ranger combo or mesmer/power ranger combo?
never will work smoth like the thief/mesmer combo which still feels really lame in some situations.

why a team should pick up a beastmaster ranger (or any kind of 1vs1 ranger build) when it’s not even possible to 1vs1 on a point as long as d/d cele ele or staff ele can do?
a good ele even start’s to make a beastmaster ranger leave the point sometimes after a longer fight.
and then there is still the warrior with his longbow (main weapon for warriors in gw2 not for rangers)

why a team should pick up a spirit ranger still?
it’s still a decent build of course.
but i would prefer to take an elementalist, engi or necromancer before and there is just 5 player slots for a team.

and then there is this kind of survival bleeding ranger build.
nice for the 1vs1 server to fight offpoint and kite without heave to focus on other players or points.
but it’s not good to master 1vs1 conquest situations or deal good damage in team fights or bring any other kind of support.

you can tryhard as much you want to create a superior ranger build,
there is simply nothing actually. (for tpvp! not hot join or soloq (oh or wvw))

every build is just something like 70% of what an other prfossion can do.

at least, what is the meta professions of what most superior teams run actually?
isn’t it something like

guardian
elementalist
mesmer
thief
warrior

guaridan
elementalist
elementalist
warrior
thief

guardian
elementalist
elementalist
engi
thief

etc.

just make sure to heave a guardian one or two elementalist a warrior and a thief and then when you don’t run two eles pick something as last player.
in this order of prefer.

1. ele, mesmer to play well together with the thief or engi
2. necro or ranger

we saw even celestial staff ele replaced guardian for some good teams allready to be viable to pick up an other profession to bring more damage into the party, because a celestial ele can easy hold a 1vs1 situation and survive a 2vs1 situation for long aswell.

isn’t this something like the actualy meta situation?