Guild Wars 2

Short bows and longbows don’t have much discernible difference in terms of range in real life. What differs between both weapons (again, irl) is their power and rate of fire (assume equal archery skill).

It seems pretty silly to me that the ranger’s short bow skills all got nerfed to 900 range.

Now I’m not asking for 1200 range back on those skills (even though that is ideal and makes the most sense), but at least have a trait that lets rangers get their short bows back up to 1200 range.

The Eagle Eye trait is the easiest fix for this issue. It increases ranger longbow range to 1500. So why not have this apply to short bows as well? I am not asking for the added damage buff, just an anti-nerf for short bow range.

Like most have already said in ranger forums, after all these patches you might as well delete the ranger class and roll a thief. Especially with this default 900 range short bow garbage.

In real life, a bow with stronger limbs will give you lower shooting rate, higher difficulty to aim, higher damage and longer range, regardless of whether it’s longbow or not.

Since we’re not seeing the higher level/rank bows have longer distance, it seems a bit pointless to complain about that.

Btw, since there’re already firearms in game, I think it’d be nice to have some compond bows here. (Suggested to be shortbow type, but with decreased level requirement built-in)

chnet.1832:

In real life, a bow with stronger limbs will give you lower shooting rate, higher difficulty to aim, higher damage and longer range, regardless of whether it’s longbow or not.

Since we’re not seeing the higher level/rank bows have longer distance, it seems a bit pointless to complain about that.

Btw, since there’re already firearms in game, I think it’d be nice to have some compond bows here. (Suggested to be shortbow type, but with decreased level requirement built-in)

There are compound bows, just like slingshot is a skin for shortbows, they are nothing more than skins. Since the powers and abilities are not linked to the weapon, but the class using the weapon I don’t really understand what the expectation is here.