Guild Wars 2

What can rangers bring to players who enjoy all aspects of GW2, the exploratory PVE, dungeons, WVW, PVP etc.

What are the good (and bad) qualities that ranger has for these things?
I realize that bad will be a longer list but this is partly directed at the people who are like "what are you guys complaining about rangers are still awesome and ownage and don’t need any changes, yes those people actually exist)

Why are you asking, why not try the class? It is fun and I do enjoy it even though I won’t play it as much as some of my other characters. If you’ve played it and other classes it’s pretty easy to see differences/strengths/weaknesses.

I have the played the class, my main is a ranger, i simply wanted to hear from the rest of the community.

i suppose its a fun class, very nice while leveling and in open pve content.
Good in spvp, ok-ish to dead meat in wvw depending on the size of the group

All the issues are hard to perceive until you’re trying to run high end pve like arah/fractals etc

Aegis.9724:

i suppose its a fun class, very nice while leveling and in open pve content.
Good in spvp, ok-ish to dead meat in wvw depending on the size of the group

All the issues are hard to perceive until you’re trying to run high end pve like arah/fractals etc

Exactly this. Open world PvE is fine and leveling is fine. But once you get into tougher group content where you depend on your party more, the problems start to really show themselves.

Chriogenosis.1764:

Aegis.9724:

i suppose its a fun class, very nice while leveling and in open pve content.
Good in spvp, ok-ish to dead meat in wvw depending on the size of the group

All the issues are hard to perceive until you’re trying to run high end pve like arah/fractals etc

Exactly this. Open world PvE is fine and leveling is fine. But once you get into tougher group content where you depend on your party more, the problems start to really show themselves.

Mostly in the area of pets. When your pet dies in 1-2 hits from a dungeon boss, you’re going to lose some or all of that pets damage, no matter how well you micromanage it. Micromanaging pets is an extreme chore, and -since pets can’t manage themselves- a necessary evil.