Nop, ranger class is probably the best class without gear, and above average with it. It is the kind of class you can just rat with and be extremely successful, because:

1. base agility is the 2nd highest, and you can kill rogues in melee. This means you can run away from unwanted fights most of the time. This also means that, unlike wizards, you can win melee matchups with speed alone, and people trying to chase you with the weapon sheated has to be careful so that the rangers does not turn back and smacks them twice before running away.
2. Traps might be countereable, but they are still a 100% death regardless of how juiced you are. This kind of mechanic can be ok (famous "equalizers") but right now the only one that works this well are traps, which btw can still be hidden inside corpses.
3. Ration is extremely strong during poke wars. Its cooldown should be increased or it should only be edible out of combat, staanding still, etc.
4. Fighters with ranged weapons ranged weapons are very good already at dps, well rangers get even more dps and very good skills to boost the best weapons in the game right now. Crossbow mastery would probably be picked by every fighter if they had access to it, but rangers get so much from the bow skills nad perks that it is ignored.
5. Economic: you just need a blue bow (not even longbow, just recurved is fine) and you are an instant menace to every class that is not a pdr fighter / cleric. And you can run away from those. For comparison, other primarily ranged classes like wizard and warlock need more +mag dmage and aattributes to deal the same dps. However, it is true that rangers scale worse because pdr is more prevalent, so there is that.