Guild Wars 2

I play a Thief primarily and as such, my preferred weapons for ranged combat is the Short-Bow. It’s a fine weapon for everything except single-target damage.

However, like all of the Thieves ranged weapons, the Short-Bow suffers from an inherent lack of range. This is not too big an issue in most PvE situations but it’s a very frustrating limit in WvW and when shooting from elevated positions.

Because opposite to reality, elevated positions actually reduce the effective range of ranged weapons.

This isn’t only counter-intuitive but also unrealistic and frustrating when defending keeps etc.

Hence I suggest that developers find a way to grant people a significant range bonus when firing from higher ground.

When shooting from a wall, I should be able to hit targets that are further than 6 yards from our wall. Although this is from a Thief POV, I believe many other classes share this issue.

rangers are godkittenannoying enough when i have to climb up to their positions while they shoot me. now you want to give them more range. realism bekittenthis is a balance issue. and if you want to go for realism see how many times you live through someone hitting you with a sword or a fireball.

It does seem a bit odd though when a ranger with a longbow in the grass can hit a warrior with a longbow on a wall, but the warrior is out of range when he tries to fire back.

Sure the ranger is a better shot I guess, but shouldn’t the guy on the wall make up for it with better height? Currently high ground is meaningless for anything but catapults and trebs.

Maybe instead of increasing range for high ground maybe reduce the guy on the low ground’s range or damage? You can’t fire a projectile as far to a higher target as a level one, and even then the projectile would have less energy when it gets there because it was expended fighting gravity.

poe lyfe.5879:

rangers are godkittenannoying enough when i have to climb up to their positions while they shoot me. now you want to give them more range. realism bekittenthis is a balance issue. and if you want to go for realism see how many times you live through someone hitting you with a sword or a fireball.

So because you have issues with Rangers you think it’s ok for elevated positions to be a disadvantage in ranged combat? It doesn’t make sense that anyone would have less range while defending from a wall than they’d have when standing on equal level.