I believe you're mixing open world PvE with raid builds and rotations. Generally you don't run raid rotations on open world mobs as they die really fast. On champs, there is higher CC and AoEs in open world PvE, and raid builds are typically made to synergize with other group meta raid builds. If you're looking for something relaxed with an easier time in general open world PvE I'd recommend out of the 3 you mentioned in this order: Ranger, Warrior, Thief. Thief being the hardest due to its health pool/squishy-ness. The benefit of it in open world is extremely high mobility and it has great burst DPS for trash mobs as well as one of the best AoE tagging + mobility weapons in the game with shortbow, in meta events you can literally press 1 and the arrow bounces to all nearby targets maximizing loot gain which is great. Where it struggles is surviving high impact incoming damage, channelled skills, and generally over aggroing lots of mobs which the other two classes can deal with a lot easier. Ranger and warrior can take a lot more incoming damage while outputting good damage as well. Ranger's pet really only draws aggro if you run core ranger and even then often in the harder areas the focus is more on the player. It's elite specs, druid and soulbeast, either have you merged with your pet or the pet has a loss of stats that causes mobs to outright ignore it or it dies extremely fast. Warrior functions very similarly to soulbeast (without the pet of course). It's a very straight forward and easy class to pick up and play but a difficult one to master. Lastly, one thing I wanted to mention since you mentioned raid rotations (I believe), generally pug groups love to have a warrior for banners. Ranger's are typically wanted as a druid (healer) and most are wary of dps rangers because of some players that tend to play longbow max range, which in any groups setting is both extremely low DPS and not benefitting or receiving benefits from the group. Thief's are generally not wanted at all (in organized groups though they are amazing, and I love having them in mine). Thanks for so much info. Isnt then necro/reaper the "true ranger" since he always have minions? Not sure how hard he is or survivable or accepted to content.