warrior secondary

i am a ranger now, want to stay pure ranger, nothing but a ranger actually. But if I become a warrior secondary, will i get a health advantage?
and can I get past searing without choosing a secondary?

You need a 2nd profession before you go to searing

I was in the same boat - wanted a pure warrior - ended up taking ranger as 2nd - you can pick a 2nd and elect not to do anything with it tho - just keep putting your skill points on ranger and only use ranger skills - you don't get any health/energy advantages from a 2nd profession - any physical benefit a mainyl from the armour your primary profession can wear

Every character gets the same amount of hit points, so no.

You have to choose a secondary to get out of pre-searing. Don't worry, you don't gain any disadvantages and you don't have to put any attribute points into their skill lines.

You definetly don't have to pick a secondary profession. You can enter the Academy without one and go post searing.

really? where is that academy? or do you mean talk to tydus? Cuz whenever I talk to tydus he tells me to get a 2nd profession.

indeed Tydus will send you on the way for a second profession, once you have a second profession he will point you to that other guy and you can hop into the academy. But best do all skillquests before you do that

no, armin saberlin tells me to get a 2nd prof., but tydus will tell me i cant go searing before that.

Pick a Monk secondary and assign no attributes. Just get a ressurection spell to help out when partied with others.

hmm, I really JUST want to be a ranger, but I guess there is no other way. I think Ima be a monk, yeah.

Warrior is a very suitable choice for a marksman ranger. All you have to do is put Fury on your skill bar. Even at low levels Fury + Read the Wind = Happy Machine Gun Ranger.

Everybody and their sister has monk as a secondary. Fight the power!

I'm a R/W....I stack my ranger attributes and I use 2 warrior spells "Sprint" and "Fury"...I'm essentially Pure Ranger.

I believe having a secondary in PvE is required to enter the Academy.

As far as secondaries for a primary ranger, some small things to consider:

Warrior: Warriors get some useful stances which would benefit Ranger's Expertise.

Necromancer: R/Ne is the combination of a million pets, most undead. =-]

Elementalist: The primary bonus of Elementalist is getting something like Conjure Flame, which can add some extra damage if you have a Flame bow (but there's similar ones for Water, Earth, and Air).

Mesmer: Ranger/Mesmers are easily one of the best disruption classes. This is more highly valued in PvP than PvE, but still definitely useful.

Monk: As pretty much everyone knows, having Monk as secondary allows you to use an infinite ressurection skill instead of Signet of Ressurection, which is very useful. For nearly any non-monk class, if you want to be "pure" yet still gain SOME benefit, secondary Monk really IS a fine idea. (Without making it a debate about this, most players carry some kind of ressurection with them at nearly all times in PvE. If you aren't using a secondary class for anything, it might as well be better than the one-shot signet.)