Guild Wars 2

I’m trying to figure out what unique benefit a Ranger brings to WvW. Right now anything a Ranger can do, other classes can do better, and most other classes also have a unique benefit that no other class can do at all. (guardian walls, mesmer portals, warrior shouts, etc)

The unique benefit for Rangers used to be Spirit skills. Unfortunately these were nerfed and don’t provide a noticeable benefit to your team in WvW anymore. With Spirits nerfed all rangers have left going for them is dead pets.

I was making a list of why you want people to play a certain class in WvW. Listing what benefits they bring to WvW which other classes can’t provide, but I can’t come up with anything for Rangers that other classes can’t do better. When theory crafting the only thing I can bring up is having 1500 range, but in practice this isn’t too helpful as longbow projectiles move way too slowly so they don’t hit moving targets most of the time.

Under water fight in wvw, ranger is still the dominater.

Technically that’s the pet, not the ranger themselves :p

If rangers had a pet like the shark of jellyfish above water that would be pretty nice actually. And there are no objectives underwater (yet? underwater keep maybe?) so it doesn’t really matter in WvW.

Id say rangers currently bring nothing to the table except traps and maybe barrage. Can any1 say necros or thieves?

I play ranger, mesmer and guardian in wvw. The utility rangers bring compared to the other two is simply laughable. My mantra GS mesmer vastly out dps’s my lb ranger because the damage is basically instant (laser beams can’t be sidestepped) not to mention I can daze and actually support my team on demand. The ranger’s pet is always either travelling or dying.

I dont understand why anet has totally ignored us since the nerf, dont think ive ever seen that except maybe in aion