Guild Wars 2

My Guardian and Warrior excel at killing things in a very nice time frame. Little to no kiting and nice buffs.

Yet my Ranger takes 2-4x as long to kill the same mob(s) and has WAY worse survivability. I can do things on my Warrior/Guardian that I would not even try on my Ranger.

I just don’t understand balance in this game

(edit) If you look at the 3 classes the Warrior and Guardian kill faster and have better survivability over the Ranger (even with a tankish pet) They also do better AOE and Warrior has better ranged (which is sad actually)..

They both have more uptime than a Ranger as well making them heads over heels better than the poor Ranger. Our pets may be part of the problem, but they are not the entire problem and this class needs fixed.

I am tired of the fact that every single weapon set is a JOKE when compared to the Warrior and or Guardian classes.

Well devs nerfed all our good damage attacks while dont give us any utility upgrade on other skills. So you could expect this coming.

Picking ranger is just like picking low tier characters in a fighting game, you can still win with it, but others can just picking top tier characters pay half the effort you paid to do the same thing you can do.

lol moderators don’t delete posts,i told him the true.
ranger is 0.
my advice was to reroll or change the game.
im not on subject with this advice?what else i can tell him?is normal, warrior hit you 2 times and you are dead? thief can kill you from hide and you don’t have any chance?mesmer is … just imba?

i have a level 80 ranger and guardian and that’s what i’m seeing. the guardian just plows through mobs and takes little damage. when i gathering in orr, i feel much better running around on the guardian.

i also have a level 48 warrior and the dps is insane and the survivability, while not as good as the guardian, it just outclasses the ranger in both cases by a huge margin. what’s sad is the warrior’s longbow skills are so much better than the rangers. if anything they skills sets should be switched.

ummmm hmm i have the exact OPPOSITE observations and experiences from my build. I have a ton of dps and aoe, and also built for a bit of vit and toughness. Vit i find is important, toughness doesn’t keep u alive in pve very long. warriors die around me left and right where as i can solo a swarm of mobs in Orr for example if i really wanted to, and I also do it without kiting these days since i just go pure melee with sword sets. i dont trait my pet, because i fight alongside my pet instead of wanting my pet to absorb it all. imo pets can’t be expected to do that. but we are two units instead of one and from my experience it has allowed me to survive alot of things. Warriors take all the damage and for example their greatsword skills are all offensive where as ( i mention this below)

my dps is around the same as a warrior (little less). i do the same damage as warrior’s hundred blades with my greatsword on burst QZ except one second slower. Though that doesn’t say rangers are better for dps or something. sword and other weapon skills have a ton of evasion, block, daze, and lots of control over ur skills to keep u alive. along with useful slot skills, i often stay standing for the longest in any encounter, including dungeons.

The concept of rangers is tactics and damage over time.

if i decided to kite and play it safe, i last even longer…

from experience, rangers are my favourite class. they aren’t EASY to play effectively. it’s not a simple class. people keep thinking its an easy class it’s low damage class it’s for people who casually game and play it safe but with some good builds and a good head on your shoulders, some tactical thinking and approaches, you can DO A LOT with ur ranger. our skills are very tactical, survival based and so on.

There’s so much in our arsenal not just to keep alive but to deal tons of damage over time. we can build for condition and stuff and solo swarms no problem. i’ve built for power and precision and also have ton of aoe and burst dps…. im clearing mobs no problem.

ever since the beginning of the game i’ve done that. Since the beginning levels with my ranger i can take on a few mobs 5 levels higher than me, but with a warrior i have not been able to do that instead, once you get swarmed the warrior dies quick.

i don’t see what the issue is other than that some people cant play the ranger play style and would fit better in other classes.

Ranger is easy to play but at the same time you either excel at this type of class or fail miserable at it!

I like my ranger even after the nerf- and yes its given we need a few fixes and they have nerfed and not fixed other skills- but I can still solo packs elites etc with ease.
The pets I don’t have any issue with you need to learn to swap them at the right times and time your heals and such on them!
My pet swapping has saved myself and others many times on event bosses- even had people tell me that if it wasn’t for the pets they would be dead!

Ranger is very fun class to play if you can master it!
I always get gold and virtually always out live everyone in dungeons and events- play smart!

Sadly, I gave up on the ranger a long time ago.

Lack luster skills, damage, utilities, and sub-par pet system made me look for another class.