As someone who has mained a ranger for 3 years, also carries around a max inventory with 90 slots filled with junk and extra armor sets, my best advice to you is roll a couple of alts for some variety, but I will answer your problems directly as well.
Inventory problems I don’t usually do anything till I’m at<=20 slots
- get a copper fed salvage kit and salvage all the non rare armor/weapons you pick up, use a mystic salvage kit or equivalent for the rare items(or throw rare weapons in mystic toilet). There is really no need to go to the bank for anything less than an exotic. Obviously click your luck as you go.
- TP any materials that don’t get picked up by “deposit collectibles”, but these rarely take up more than 5 slots in a single area, so you can let them collect until you get low on slots, or hit a lull in the action.
- carry a black lion merchant(anet has given me 20 for free) If you still get filled with junk mid fractal/dungeon, it probably is junk. Sell junk and then sell anything not worth the tp(usually minor runes/sigils, since it is such a hassle to mystic forge them). I have had to use a bl merchant exactly once.
- EDIT: 20 slot fractal bags are pretty cheap if you run some fractals.
build problems
- GEAR Zerker set, soldier set, a support set. Do ele do enough Condi for a Condi set? Don’t get how you need 6. But I think you are certainly putting too much importance on runes, even in terms of wvw,, but if you want to experiment you can always pop into pvp lobby to play with runes against training dummies and sparring npcs. Actually just pvp, that would give you the best free practice for your wvw roaming.
- Your armor=/=Your build. Your armor is a part of your build, but so are your weapons, traits, and skills. Unless I need to be tanky or supporty for whatever reason, I’m running ascended zerker with scholar runes 24/7. This doesn’t mean I’m always running the same build. I regularly experiment with different weapons, skills and traits, and will often change things up as the situation demands.
mastery of your class
- You aren’t your gear. Your mastery of your class comes far more from how you use your skills and traits in a given situation.
- run some alts! By playing other classes, you learn their strengths and weakness better for when you fight them. You also get a chance to see your main class from the outside. Play the class you have the worst luck against, and fight other eles. What do they do that messed you up? I can’t emphasise enough how useful the alt perspective is in enhancing your gameplay with your main, in addition to just being a great change of pace.
- You could always watch other people’s roaming videos and such too. I know I occasionally learn a thing or two by watching other people. Perhaps a skill used in an unintuitive way, or a trait/skill combo I didn’t notice.
Ty for ur nice and detailed answer
I agree with most of what u said, and i already tried every other profession since i pvp very much and got them all 2 times to lvl 80 and throw many dungeons.
And u said it really well..that im not my gear but…unluckily i reached a point..where every small change have a huge impact…im planning on a shout ele..and this 100% needs the shout rune..otherwise i will have no condi remover…its an really important rune…but at the same time i often need the traveler rune..it gives me extra condi duration and also speed, which is super important during wvw bcs 1 missing skill means i will die since im roaming alone. And if i dont run fast enough..all run from me before i can kill them..and i end up getting no loot at all bcs i cant kill anyone due to beeing slow.