Guild Wars 2

currently ranger is among the classes with lowest dps. problem is portion of our dps and survivability is depended on pets. therefore ranger is among the best classes for open world pve where mobs attack our pet (most of them,some of them might ignore the pet and come for u)but lets face the fact even casual player with 2-3 hours a day and even lesser than that can finish open world pve completion in a month and also all the classes do really fine in world pve,just warriors and rangers are a bit better not consider as advantage at all.
but when u finish 100% of the zones or areas what remain are dungeon and fractals and pvp, that is where ranger shows its weakness.
some of problem i had:
—-pet dies too fast in boss fight particularly in dungeons leaves u with lost of dps and survivability.u also lose utilities they were suppose to bring on the table.
—-due to the lack of viable utilities in wvw rangers are easy targets and they can not help the group much. the fact is if u play wvw with other classes u will have more fun probably ranger is the last class ppl chose for wvw unless u really love the class.
—-pvp again similar issue like wvw and spvp u really should wish for player who is newbie or dumb or something because by now every one knows how to kill ranger not much of different built or strategy u can choose from.
—-we are hated in high lvl fractals.
my suggestion:
—- make the pet a support,that means reduce their dps and give difference back to the ranger.also same for survivability and instead make pet to support with their skills like red moa(group heal) or sylvary hound(group heal) or the brown bear(condition removal).

in my suggestion ranger remains as pet class but less pet depended and better pet management ur pets have different utilities as support so they will be much more usefull.
so the ranger group utilities are coming from their pets instead of those useless spirits and if u want to make them work u need to spent points in the trait tree which result in considerable loss of dps just give similar utilities to the pets with same cooldown and everything and let the player decide when to summon which pet based on support they need and NOT to increase their dps or survivability because that clearly did not work as good as it should be.