Guild Wars 2

i noticed people keep saying no ranger in teams because they are bad. and i think this has to be some kind of joke. because i don’t see it that way at all.unless i am missing something.my builds for some reason are not popular on ranger forums at all but they are very effective .i guess because most care about power more then holding points or capping but i am sure there are power builds that work for other people . i run a settler build and a cleric build both have great support because i have my traits so any team member by me has Permanent Regen and swiftness thanks to guard that has a short cool down war horn gives a power boost.also i can get downed players up faster then anyone.when i am on a good team when they notice a few of the other team are trying to kill me will send a few to cap the other points and send 1 or 2 people to come help me finish off the other players so thats 2 capped for a few min when they should have just blown me offor run in the middle of a huge fight where my team mates are in trouble and dodge roll and pop entangled behind them do i die sometimes sure when i am getting hit with tons of stacks of conditions and didn’t dodge out of the way on time but to i live through 1v3 sometimes of course.i will agree though that some rangers are traited so there is no support just traited for them self . i practice for hours every day to get better .thinking about the mistakes i made and how to avoid doing it again i have a habit of getting to excited and popping skills at wrong time working on that by the way lol and remembering the things i have done right. so to be honest it hurts knowing that some people think its just a waist of time and in the end i will never get anywhere because of the hate for the ranger.. there i feel better got that off my chest

Because Ranger gets less and less useful the higher up the tiers you go, they’re easy to counter for high-tier players. They also don’t have a portal.

Random Weird Guy.3528:

Because Ranger gets less and less useful the higher up the tiers you go, they’re easy to counter for high-tier players. They also don’t have a portal.

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If you want to support your team with healing and boons and do decent power/condi output, D/D ele

If you want to nuke people from range, take Mesmer.

If you want to mongo people down with CDs, take Rampage warrior.

If you want high mobility and stealth, take Thief

Although Ranger has plenty of builds which are fine to solo q or team queue with, ultimately in a tournament where maximum efficiency is required, they fail to bring enough unique utility in a team setting.