Guild Wars 2

Well I main my Ranger since a very long time now and I have to disagree your statements. The Ranger is pretty balanced tho the only thing you need is positioning, timing and holding your enemy on range. This will work easily once you learned to play with the right pets. For example you can easily double root someone with the spider for 4 seconds in the WvW / PvE / Spvp , and 4 seconds is by far enough to nuke someone down if you play as a burst / dps ranger. You can also use the dog-type pets to knock your enemy down for 2 seconds. And also , the ranger has by far one of the best downstat skill set, one interrupt , a very strong heal (pet even gets revived this way) and a lot of bleeding stacks. Also , the ranger with the right traits does the highest amount of AoE damage ( even more than an elementalist ). So quit complaining about how unavailable the ranger is and learn to play properly with their class kit and mechanics. In my case I play with short and longbow (longbows damage on 1200-1500 range is like 3k each hit on players and with shortbow I just do like 2-3hits per second to enemies which are closer to me (I directly swap from long into shortbow if someone gets close). The Shortbow even has a skill where you can run away from some1 and make a shot backwards without being interrupted from running away (with like a second of evasion). The next part is that the ranger has a lot of mobility with the right kit (lightning reflexes gives you a free dodge with vigor so you can dodge like 4 times with it). The pet does a very high amount of damage even if you dont play beastmaster. So just quit complaining because the ranger isnt just a "press “X” button class to win". Just learn to manage the difficulties with disadvantages and advantages of a ranger. The funniest thing after all hearing like the longbow is so useless, just try to press zephyr once with the combo “3=>2=>5” and your enemy is to 100% dead unless he is interrupting you or a guardian. You can stack like 25 stacks of vulnerability instantly on initiating a shot and thats not epic? Well I mean having such complains from persons who probably dont have any clue about the ranger at all. And don’t forget that A-net will always approve if the big mass of community flames that something is imbalanced with a class. But thats just ridiculous because they did a perfect job on the ranger at all. If you ask me I do like 14k dmg with my Rapid Fire on longbow and AoEing with every shot I do “piercing arrow trait”. And reading that the ranger traits are not fun at all is also just hilarious.