Guild Wars 2

What do you do when you find out you have a Bearbow in your group?

Do you try and teach them the error of their ways throughout the dungeon?

Or is it a instant kick?

What the ranger seems fine throughout most of the dungeon but really is a undercover Bearbow(lol) and goes full Bearbow halfway through the dungeon?

Poor bears. I honestly Just feel bad for the pets in this situation.

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Poor bears. I honestly Just feel bad for the pets in this situation.

They really are brave and noble, but the peasants of Tyria look down upon them.

It’s like the quote from Sin City:

Most people think [Bear] is [crappy]. He just had the rotten luck of being born in the wrong century. He’d be right at home on some ancient battlefield [mauling] into somebody’s face. Or in a Roman arena, taking his [paw] to other gladiators like him. They woulda tossed him girls like [Zojja] back then.

Darn it I want to be a bear placed into the right century. Mmmm… Zojja!

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Darn it I want to be a bear placed into the right century. Mmmm… Zojja!

Lol, she’s the perfect height for humans. And the top of her head is rather flat so you can place your beer there.

What were we talking about? BHBs? Stacking/exploiting? I don’t know. They already think we kick them automatically so we might as well start doing that

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17xn5fvka8ljzjpg/original.jpg

…hard to stay mad at that rascal.

But teaching its owner anything useful would take weeks. All of the other ranger weapons just aren’t Pizazzzy enough. They completely lack Pizazz. In Gw1 you could roll Daggers & abuse expertise for some really pizazzy pizazz. And ya looked pizazzy doing it too b/c you also blocked everything even when locked in longer animations.

Every other weapon for them in this game is just way too much work for such meager Pizazz.

That is the best photo I’ve ever seen.

ilr.9675:

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17xn5fvka8ljzjpg/original.jpg

…hard to stay mad at that rascal.

But teaching its owner anything useful would take weeks. All of the other ranger weapons just aren’t Pizazzzy enough. They completely lack Pizazz. In Gw1 you could roll Daggers & abuse expertise for some really pizazzy pizazz. And ya looked pizazzy doing it too b/c you also blocked everything even when locked in longer animations.

Every other weapon for them in this game is just way too much work for such meager Pizazz.

This is my ranger’s bear

I stand corrected.

ilr.9675:

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17xn5fvka8ljzjpg/original.jpg

…hard to stay mad at that rascal.

But teaching its owner anything useful would take weeks. All of the other ranger weapons just aren’t Pizazzzy enough. They completely lack Pizazz. In Gw1 you could roll Daggers & abuse expertise for some really pizazzy pizazz. And ya looked pizazzy doing it too b/c you also blocked everything even when locked in longer animations.

Every other weapon for them in this game is just way too much work for such meager Pizazz.

lol that is a nice picture, but its just a front for the growing Bearbow Menace!

A player (warrior) that was new to Arah (and normally as one might -nothing wrong here- kept downing throughout the dungeon while I ressed him during things like Wraithlord Crusher’s hammer swipe and Lupi’s Poison Bubble) asked me during the Lupi fight- “Your bears useless, why is he not even attacking?” – as he goes down again for the 5th or 6th time, (again, normal for a first timer) during phase 2. After ressing, him and 1 other yet again, all I had to do was ping [Protect Me] and [Signet of Stone] as we finished the fight. He got his tokens and everyone was happy, even thanked us afterwards for letting new players into the group he usually got kicked from.

Of course, since it LOOKS like the bear is doing nothing, it MUST be doing nothing, right?

Fact is, bears (or drakes) can be extremely useful any time when you need a quick spout of invulnerability (6 seconds, plus a few extra hits after due to their high toughness and vit) on tap. No different than [Endure Pain] or any other similar traits of warriors or guards, really – and I don’t recall too many people calling those other invulnerability-based traits useless, either. That’s not to say there aren’t players of all classes that don’t understand or know what they are doing well, but ‘instant kick (lol)’, really?

That said, I don’t always run Bears, but when I do.. I bring DOS OSOS!

That was a nicely crafted story of the triumph of a man, his bear and his 1500 longbow but overall bearbows are useless.

ilr.9675:

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17xn5fvka8ljzjpg/original.jpg

…hard to stay mad at that rascal.

But teaching its owner anything useful would take weeks. All of the other ranger weapons just aren’t Pizazzzy enough. They completely lack Pizazz. In Gw1 you could roll Daggers & abuse expertise for some really pizazzy pizazz. And ya looked pizazzy doing it too b/c you also blocked everything even when locked in longer animations.

Every other weapon for them in this game is just way too much work for such meager Pizazz.

The longer you look the funnier it gets. That bear is up to something.

Ethics.4519:

ilr.9675:

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17xn5fvka8ljzjpg/original.jpg

…hard to stay mad at that rascal.

But teaching its owner anything useful would take weeks. All of the other ranger weapons just aren’t Pizazzzy enough. They completely lack Pizazz. In Gw1 you could roll Daggers & abuse expertise for some really pizazzy pizazz. And ya looked pizazzy doing it too b/c you also blocked everything even when locked in longer animations.

Every other weapon for them in this game is just way too much work for such meager Pizazz.

This is my ranger’s bear

Since we are listing awesome bears here is my contribution Warning, uncensored language ahead, if this sort of thing bothers you, why are you on the internet?

As for how to deal with bear bows, i generally don’t like telling people how to play unless they ask for tips first. If they have a bad attitude and fail miserably i will kick otherwise what ever my group will carry them I guess. Maybe i’m too forgiving…

clint.5681:

That was a nicely crafted story of the triumph of a man, his bear and his 1500 longbow but overall bearbows are useless.

I can see how some folks would feel that way, but i wouldn’t go as fas as saying useless. I mean, that smiling bear pic above did bring you an ounce of joy, did it not? :p

Although there are no bears here, this goes to prove Bow Rangers can be quite the entertaining bunch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPRFNsBqac8&feature=youtu.be

enjoy!

I used my handy photoshop skills to uncover the secret bearlluminati content in that picture