Guild Wars 2

I’ve looked into builds a bit, so far Elementalist seems the same to me (which in this case is good and bad as I previously enjoyed staff elem in group content), though truthfully I’m a bit hesitant because I never enjoyed Elem in open world content so I never took mine too far, so instead I tried necro a bit, with a few changes and so far I am enjoying it.

Is Dragonhunter viable as a purely ranged class? (In the way that LB/LB ranger aka “Bearbow” was in the past).

On that matter is Rifle/Bow warrior viable? or is it still more of a gimmick spec or are those weapons only really good as backups?

Compared to WoW’s raids, how difficult are the raids in GW2? Are they on par with early progression Mythic content (Very difficult, under 1% of the population can complete/etc)? or more similar to late progression mythic or heroic content? (only moderately difficult, requiring coordination but should be completed by anyone willing to put in the effort).

Recently I’ve decided to return to GW2, I played for a short time at the beginning of HoT, but ended up losing interest as several people I played with at the time quit and I was not really motivated to find a new guild/etc.

I have a few questions for the community:

- What are the good ranged dps profs/builds currently?
I have previously played Ranger (power based), Elem (staff), and Necro (Sinister/Condi, but really just for pvp).

I have 80 Ranger/Elem/Nerco, and can use the 80 boost on anything else. Ideally I’d like 2 options to try out that at the least do enough dps in pve/fractals that I won’t hear complaints.

- How active is the WvW scene? this is something I enjoyed previously, but after trying it a bit I noticed it had vastly declined at least on my server, is this the case in general or have people just moved elsewhere?

- Is there anything important I should look into / read up on / etc as a returning player?