Rangers - misunderstood or actually bad?

[am0n]

The wonder of rangers is the versatility. You can tank if needed, dps, pull, ghetto-CC (root, let the others save their mana), snare, supplement buffs, etc. If you have a fully optimized team comp, you are going to shine much less (this is mostly fixed in Luclin, but sadly we won't see that on this server), but in any other group you do a great job of filling in where the rest of the party can't or would be better off not doing.