Guild Wars 2

I prefer GS over sword because when stacked with other players, I can’t see my target and don’t need to worry about it as long as its in range with GS. When not stacked I think shortbow is better for the flexibility of moving where I want and not having to stop dpsing. Sword definitely gives more DPS but you have to select your target if you don’t you will be jumping all over the place. At least for dungeons and fractals I think GS is better only because you can autotarget without being thrown all over the place. Personally though I wish the weapons were more balanced so you can choose what you like not what does a substantial amount of higher DPS.

We need the bleeding only from behind removed from shortbow and perhaps change the bleed to a poison. After that gives us a melee weapon that will also do a poison with its autoattack. I believe that would fix any issues we have with dps and survivability in one swift step.

I don’t believe that rangers suck at all. in fact we have much to offer groups in my opinion. True our pets don’t help much in group content, however, we have 2 skills that allow us to help downed players in bad spots without risking ourselves in the process. We also have piercing which allows us to hit multiple targets with our arrows and unlike a thief we have some control over who we hit in that scenario. We also have healing spring an extremely useful area heal which is great in groups. The problem is not our class is weak in groups but that current boss mechanics make the warrior / guardian stacking extremely synergistic. Perhaps if bosses all have a knockback ability and fight areas didn’t have exploitable stacking spots our utility would be needed more in groups rather than pure melee dps.