Guild Wars 2

well, I play a lvl 80 warrior and a lvl 80 engineer and just recently leveled up a lvl 80 ranger despite all the bad attention it gets in wvw. I really like the ranger and the concept behind its weapon skills, I run greatsword and sword/axe and find it to be allot of fun. The problem is that with identical stats to my warrior it takes about 10 more seconds to kill any random creature because ranger hits like a wet noodle. Also, 50% of all ranger traits and utilities go to buffing the ranger pet, which is basically useless except for when it heals you while downed. And as a ranger, all you get is one F2 skill to activate on your pet while on my engineer I get an entire toolbelt of 4 utility skills that I don’t have to worry about interruption if I happen to cast both at the same time, because pets stop doing whatever they were commanded to do if you command them to do something else. If anything I think pets should be active for short burst situations rather than an annoying thing constanly following you around that does no damage and has clumsy abilities with enormous activation times. Also, rangers have only one blast finisher out of all their skills and utilities, that is complete crap considering how important blast finishers are in wvw, what the game was designed for. Arena net, if you are reading this, I really love the concept of my ranger, but come on, I cant even justify playing it because of all the glaring inconsistencies within its design.

Excellent points made for giving commanders more control over who has access to their squad.