How is the ranger in pvp and pve?
I find the ranger to be great fun in WvW. Using a longbow, you can really do great damage from a distance where people don’t even realize who’s hitting them. With some heavy crit damage, I can pick people off the top of a wall sometimes and actually kill them. You have to be active and on your toes, because you’ll certainly be more squishy than some of the other professions, but I don’t have much trouble staying alive most of the time.
Attacking / defending keeps and towers is really fun when you can actually hit and do good damage from a distance. Also you can build in enough utility with traps and CC so that you can handle just about any situation.
Right now, pets are very difficult or impossible to use effectively in WvW…but you can use them selectively and make them somewhat useful.