How are rangers in pvp?Follow

I recently started playing on a PVP server, and I really always enjoyed playing the Ranger. I enjoy the swashbuckler also, but to me they weren't that exciting. Just melee and never do anything else always seemed a little repetitive. So I enjoyed the aspects of the ranger, melee and bow skills plus having "fun" pets and what not. But I heard that rangers suck in pvp. Is this true? What exactly should I expect if I played a ranger on a pvp server. I don't want a ranger/swashie comparison, because I heard swashies are awesome in pvp, I just want to know how is the ranger altogether. I don't want to play a gimped class. Any info that you can give me will be greatly appreciated, thanks.

More than a few of us PVE rangers feel that PVP rangers are the cause of a lot of nerfages we have seen :) SO yeah Rangers are good at PVP, Just look how many rangers are on the PVP servers at eq2census.com and you will see that!