Temple armor for ranger
While I would personally not use them, I don’t see why rabid or soldier couldn’t be a possibility.
So, sure.
There are trapper/cond builds that run on rabid armor, that is a great build for WvW roaming.
(and the other 8 elite specs maxed too)
I know you mentioned you use a sbow, but what kind of build? Cond/crit I will assume? Personally I wouldn’t waste my karma there. Not quite as easy to come by anymore. I would craft a rare med set stats of your liking, or buy a cheap rare set off tp. Another not so cool thing about Orr karma armor is you can’t salvage it later on.
For exotics I would farm some easy exp dungeon tokens, cofp1, ta f/f or u/u path etc, or use wvw tokens for filler armor.
Really depends your playstyle. PvE, PvX, WvWroam, cond pve could look very different than a cond wvwroam. Or maybe you use sbow in a crit/pow build too?