Being philosophical for a moment, a question we should often ask ourselves is, “are you the type of teammate you would want on your team?” This is an interesting question that takes into account not only your playskill and build efficiency, but also your demeanor and attitude. No one wants to party with a highly skilled well built pseudo-elitist knob. No one wants to party with a super nice guy who runs awful builds, doesn’t know the encounters and contributes negatively if he even contributes at all.
So when looking at your “I don’t care about the rest of my party I am going to pew pew for no damage and contribute less than 20% of group damage and support” I have to say your attitude is fairly negative. Nobody wants to party with a guy who doesn’t care about the success of the group and isn’t willing to help to the best of his ability.
Further evidence is that you appear oddly proud of the fact that you’re “the last man standing” but you have not paused to reflect that this is so because you’re contributing least. Perhaps another player in your spot who did his fair share of damage while also supplying helpful support would have made it so that nobody died? It’s entirely possible -even probable- and yet it appears you have not considered it whatsoever.
In regards to build and player skill, I have a few observations. First, as others have said, your build is not efficient for PVE. People expect a ranger to provide traited Frost Spirit and Spotter to the party at a minimum. Even if you cannot comfortably run a Berserker build, you can contribute at least these things to provide value. I would reckon that so long as your brought these two things more groups wouldn’t know or care that you weren’t doing a great deal of damage personally. Omitting them is a blunder, and frankly, unforgivable. I am rather tolerant of pugs and I have reasonably low expectations, however I would not hesitate to relieve my group of the burden of a Ranger who failed to bring these things.
As far as your playskill goes, I have no first hand knowledge of it. But based on reductive reasoning, I can make a few educated guesses. The overly defensive nature of your build, along with a default ranged option leads me to guess you are either 1. inexperienced in PVE and require defensive crutches to survive encounters or 2. you simply play the same build in WVW and you are too lazy to make separate accomodations for PvE dungeons. The first is forgivable assuming the player is making an effort, but in your case from comments you’ve made, I understand you don’t care to make an effort. The latter less easy to forgive, as it reveals a laziness that is unbecoming of a good teammates and something that a skilled player wouldn’t tolerate of himself.
Based on the evidence as it sits in total, I have to conclude you are not the type of player anyone would want as a teammate and you probably know that to be true on some level even if you won’t acknowledge it publicly. But now I’ve laid it all out, where you go from here is up to you, and hopefully you take the appraisal for what it is and find it to be quite improving for you.
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