Guild Wars 2

This has been getting at me ever since i started my glorious Engineer, while not high in level I have enjoyed playing him since day one of release. The Engineer is an amazing class with its flaws both in pvp and pve, but every class has its flaws and advantages.
Now I do understand quite well that what we lack in weapons we make up for in utilities like turrets and elixirs and so on. When we think Engineer I know the first thing that comes to mind is an intelligent individual using the latest technology at their advantage, but I would love to suggest giving the Engineer the ability to use long bows. While bows may not seem like the pinnacle of technology in the guild wars universe, but give it to an engineer and they can do lots of interesting things such as

1: Explosive Arrow – Similar to the explosive shot of the pistol a good change for it would be to make it fire slower than the pistol but have a larger blast radius and do slightly more damage to make up for the slow fire

2: Storm Shot – An arrow rigged with electrical devices when shot up into the air releases high volts of electricity downwards in an AOE. This ability can act as a snare or a slow effect with moderate air damage. This ability can be combined to give other ranged attacks an electrical modifier to their attacks.

3: Blinding Arrow – An arrow designed to confuse and make the target lose control for a short period of time. Should have a long cooldown so as not to be seen as an “IWIN” button.

4: Shrapnel – An arrow that hits the target designed to explode into shrapnel hitting all targets within a small radius.

5: Grappling shot/Magnetic arrow – Fires an arrow to a target location on the ground pulling either 1 or more targets to said location.

Feedback is welcome. I tried to think of abilities that were as balanced as possible, and I understand that some abilities may seem like clones of others, but it would be nice to see engineers use bows in my honest opinion.

I would rather they introduce the crossbow since it has a mechanical element to it . the Longbow just doesn’t fit with the theme of the engineer .

I’d rather they give them a normal melee weapon besides wrench.

from how I have seen the Engineer when I have played mine is that they are a medium range and support profession.

Long range is for the rangers and I feel should remain their domain.

All the items you lists as you know engineers already have just not long range.

I greatly appreciate the criticism and feedback in my suggestion. As a reply to Adine, a crossbow would be a nice addition as well