Norn Ranger here too, and I use shortbow as primary and great sword as secondary.

Will eventually switch to shortbow/longbow after I get some good weapons.

Tonight will spend hunting down pet locations.

Yeah, started using sword/dagger combo now as secondary. It's working pretty well and using traps as well.

So far, traits I've build is

Markmanship (1)
Skirmishing (2)
Beastmastery (3)

Only use Longbow/Shortbow combo for both.

If it's on guard, it'll attack the nearest mob.

Not too sure if this makes sense but I'd avoid karma armor. If you don't have much coin, blue grade armor should tide you over till you can afford better armor. Rare grade (gold) armor is pretty cheap as well. 40-50s x 6 which you can farm in less than a day of game play. Those will be good enough till you can get better.

Cressalve can craft armor/weapons so you can look for him for that. He'll help you out if you can provide him the mats, talk to him and work something out. Cheaper than buying gear from TP since he's craftin git.

Testing 30/30/10 right now.

No, none in Nature's magic. Just the first 3.

Hey man, what materials for that bow?

I want one!

Yeah, and that has forced me to equip the warhorn for the 33% speed buff.

Oh yeah, back to playing the ranger a little

Had some fun yesterday in wvwvw with the ranger

Don't really notice too much difference, but the 25% swiftness signet is awesome! Too bad I still need the warhorn to keep up with the zerg.