Hey Guys,
Im playing this game since the beta and picked it up a few days ago after i paused since a few months after raids first released.
Ranger was my first class, love on first sight still main him nowdays.
But i feel like ranger was always bad or at least everything he could do it felt to me another class could do better, sometimes it could and still can get frustraiting because no one really ever likes rangers in their team no matter the ranger subclass i play..
i still love playing ranger, still my favourite class but with the above said in mind i feel like the only time playing ranger was really fun was when druid was first introduced and ppl would love a druid in their fractal/raid group.
For the first time ever it felt to me like ranger was actually a good and needed class if you play him as druid and i did a ton of fractal cms and raids with him.
I mean everyone had like their thing: Warrior=Banner, Guard=Aegis and other good boons and helping skills, Mesmer=quickness and stuff.......just a harsh generalisation but i think u guys get my point.
At that point it felt like ranger got his own thing for the first time. i had a blast with ranger like never before.
And now back to the presence i look for fractal groups and all i see again are lfgs for: hfb,bs,alac or sc as basic classes and the rest gets filled with dps or cdps.
So i informed myself about all classes again read snowcrows and metabuilds guides and played some fractals and dungeons again.
Lets make it short and painfull: to me it seems like condi ranger and power ranger are good but everything they can do, again, other dmg classes can do better.
and druid may be still first pick healer for raids but in fractals i get why no one wants him because hfb can do his job and, again, even better especially combined with alac.
Seems to me like since the beta, exept when raids released and druid had its high, ranger was never too bad but also never on paar with other classes and never had his "own thing" and was never wanted.
Its really frustrating cuz i love ranger so mutch it hurts. like an abusive relationship, i want to let go but i cant i went through to mutch and had to many good tmes with him.
also i poured soo mutch ressources into him it feels like starting another class all over cost to mutch time and money.
I could go mutch mutch more into detail but i feel like it would make this post infinitly long so i finish at this point.
So please tell me guys, am i just to blind to see and ranger is actually bonkers? or why does arena net hate ranger so mutch or at least doesnt love him enough to actually give him a helping hand like their other loved childs(classes).
also is there a buff/rework planed for him i doesnt know about?
Written by a kinda sad ranger player.