Guild Wars 2

I guess the meta could shift to overpower ranged classes and you end up with a whole bunch of people just standing lamely across from each other spamming spells like in other games – Rift would be a classic example of this terribad gameplay.

@Op.

As a matter of fact the number 1 server’s EU wvw population consists in 60% longbow rangers and 39% staff elementalists so basicly on those statistics ranger is the most succesfull class in wvw.

Besides that you need to spec for your desired purpoise acordingly.Ranger has a couple of very good duelist/roaming builds including mobility on par with warrior and thief.You can’t expect to roam with a sb/lb build and not die aswell as you can’t just bring a backstab thief into a zergfight and expect to be decisive.

I have heard so many complains that many classes are not viable for zergs but imo it is not true at all.The problem is the majority players lack in imagination and exclusively relly on popular copy/paste builds instead of experimenting their own.Once for example i created a very nice venom share aoe build for thief with 3k armor and 22kplus hp on soldier gear that could easily be a frontliner bringing huge aoe cc plus a ton of blasts finishers , but regardless all thieves are pigeonholed into the singletarget stealth troll builds useless to mass combat.

.Just get a little creative and don’t bring a pve zero survavibiity, zero group support and be a free rally bot and expect for commanders to be happy about it.It’s just common sense.

State of WvW:

“… because 10s lag spikes, zergs of skill-less 1-mashing PVE doorhammer heroes, and a billion CC warriors is fun.”

Rangers are shoehorned into playing rabid trapper, since CC and AoE is king in WvW. Frost, spike traps + entangle is the way to go.

AydenStar.4216:

and Staff Elementalists (Healing, Support, Utility) down my throat because they are the easiest, no brain professions to play in WvW zerging.

Whoa, have you even played an ele? I hope you didn’t seriously mean that.

The state of cookie cutter forum post.

WvW is overun with Rangers. They seem to be doing ok.

… but not for certain guilds, where rangers are banned !