Guild Wars 2

There are three professions that can use the bow in the game.
Ranger -> Shortbow/Longbow
Warrior -> Longbow
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The recent “nerf” made all shortbow skills range 900 and “buffed” the default warrior longbow range to 1000.

While both the ranger and warrior longbow have a trait to buff their ranges (R: 1200-> 1500, W: 1000 -> 1200), there are no similar buffs for the shortbow (probably because they were already at the maximum range).

My suggestion would be to play around with adding traits that buff the range back to 1200 or add some other interesting effect. I think this is the most reasonable since similar traits exist for other weapons (longbow, pistol, rifle, offhand range).

Another possibility would be to buff the range more than 900 but less than 1200 by default (which is not mutually exclusive to the above trait suggestion).

It is somewhat laughable that, at least in the ranger’s case, the axe has the same range as a bow. Making the shortbow range 1000-1100 would separate it from other “mid range” weapons but keep it from achieving the same range as a longbow untraited.

Overall I like making the ranges different but would also like to see some more customization for these weapons.

I tried searching for such topics but didn’t see any that really suggested adjustments to the patch changes (rather than just complaints). I think a discussion on how to make these weapons more interesting would be helpful.