What is it with Barrage Rangers?

There has been 1-2 good Barragers that I've been in parties with. One of them was R/A with Sharpen Daggers or whatever the Bleeding skill is, and the other was a Barrager with HEAPS of utilities to make his Barrage deal more damage. There are some amazing barrage off-shoots. Bleeding + barrage is one, B/P of course is one of the infamous for being used poorly by bad rangers... My personal preference is support/interrupt. Barrage provides a solid damage base, then throw in Savage/Distracting shot, Throw Dirt, and Healing Spring and you have a heavy-hitting character that can mess up enemies big time and help out the monks with AoE healing.

And to whoever said that Savage/Dist Shot are poor interrupts, evidently you've never played a ranger. The point isn't to interrupt every skill, but to interrupt the inportant ones. With the 5-second recharge on Savage shot, it's really not hard for a good player to Distract a monk's RoF and continually Savage his Blessed Light or to Distract a warrior's healing sig, taking down his only self-healing. One important thing to remember about these skills is that they are incredibly useful not only against casters, but against anyone, as they interrupt actions. Even if it hits someone who's attacking, not using a skill, it still deals damage and prevents damage to the team, as well as providing a second in which the person can't act. Pressure, not lock-down, is the goal in any secondary-interrupt ranger.