Guild Wars 2

Hello all, before the comments start flying at me, I am indeed one of “those people”. I’d love nothing more than a ranged weapon for my Guardian. Granted, the guardian already has the staff, but the staff skills are almost purely supportive.

That being said I don’t mind that it’s not the equal of a warrior’s rifle (which I think to be extremely OP) but in WvWvW I find that all I can do is pluck away with my 600 range staff and not do any damage while using my relatively useless staff heal, or just stand there repeating /cheer to inspire the troops. I use my buffs and supportive abilities, which are useful, but I still find myself to be nothing more than a bag of meat in most fights.

Also, in my opinion, if they give the warrior a rifle that can do the ridiculous amounts of damage it does, and NOT give make the Guardian a better melee fighter than the warrior, we have a serious problem in the game. That is all, please formulate your responses like the civilized folk I know you all to be.

I use the scepter, it has 1200 range and aoe damage on a fast cooldown.

Would it be too much of a stretch to give Guardians Longbow access, perhaps for an expansion? They already have a Spirit Bow utility skill. Make the skill animations blue and sparkly, and they’re good to go.

The scepter does have the range, but the abilities are hardly anything near even passive harassment. I don’t need a necro’s well nuke or elementalists meteors, but I’d like either a longbow like Progulous said, or maybe even a rifle (longbow preferred). I can still buff and heal while shooting away with a longbow at the enemy I can barely touch in WvWvW.

Despite the scepter having 1200 range i generally use it as a much closer range weapon (almost melee range infact), this is mostly due to orb speed and how small the smite AOE is (so much better to drop it on your location at melee range). The staff is certainly not a ranged weapon either IMO, due to the max 600 range and it being generally for support.

I’ve love a bow (long or short) with either a single targer design or multi AOE design, it would suit the Guardian nicely and it would go great with the Spirit bow (as it’s the only spirit weapon we can’t actully use ourselfs).