Guild Wars 2

Alright guys so I made a really similar post to this one earlier today while I was at work and I got some really helpful feedback from you all so thank you! Now my new question for all you GuildPros is this: What is the best overall class with the bow, (long or short) atm besides the Ranger? Now please, go in depth with this! The reason I say no Ranger is because I hate pets and absolutely refuse to ever roll that class ^.^ But if you could give a class and maybe even a build outline that’s pretty proficient with bows, I’d love you, AllHomo. Thanks!

Well, that leaves you with Thieves and Warriors, which are short and longbow respectively. Thief is aoe conditions, imo, and war is burning through longrange.
That’s a good starting point I think, someone else can do more to help >.>

I think you already have your answer?
In your other thread you said you want to be tanky and have a bow. That’s a warrior.
I’ve never heard of a tanky short bow thief to be honest.

Navi yes, I thought about it. But as I said ‘In Depth’ meaning if anyone knows of builds or more details about how to run the class with it, It could change my mind. Don’t wanna waste my time maxing out another character if it doesn’t offer me what I want to begin with so I posted again or reassurance or more information from people who have possibly ran a class like that.

Warrior longbow:
- Shorter range than ranger at 900, traited at 1200
- Mixed damage between direct and condition, harder to spec
- For bow related traits you have to go into vitality-heavy line(tactics) for 20 points
- Built in combo field and finisher
- AOE heavy

Generally you’ll have a smoother time at taking down group of trash mobs than killing a champ or a boss, not the best weapon to bring for dungeon gameplay. Works fairly well in general PvE. Often refer as inferior to rifle in terms of single target damage.

Thief shortbow:
- Again, shorter ranger than ranger at 900
- Great kiting/positioning weapon
- AOE oriented with trick shot, cluster bomb, choking gas
- Not as hard hitting as other weapons
- More supportive/defensive
- Quickest access to blast finisher in the game

Again, good at clearing trash mobs, don’t have as much single target damage as other weapons. Could be useful in dungeon, because it allows the thief to maintain a distance from danger and an easy escape ability. In other terms, thieves aren’t the best dungeoneers.

The Longbow is a good backup weapon for the Warrior, but it doesn’t make a great main weapon.

Warriors are all about melee.

@Dalla, sorry to say this bro but your just a kittening moron…. I ask because there’s hundreds and thousands of people on the forums who have tried every build on every class… Why would I make a class just to try out something if I can spend 5 minutes getting the information from an experienced player who’s done it? Don’t try to troll my post if your gonna be a kitten on it, kthx<3

SimpleKingly.5021:

@Dalla, sorry to say this bro but your just a kittening moron…. I ask because there’s hundreds and thousands of people on the forums who have tried every build on every class… Why would I make a class just to try out something if I can spend 5 minutes getting the information from an experienced player who’s done it? Don’t try to troll my post if your gonna be a kitten on it, kthx<3

How do you know if the class fits you if you didn’t try it? Because I tried all three and I found ranger to be the best profession at “dealing damage with bows”. I’m not saying that ranger is the best profession out there, but other calsses’ bow abilities are just weaker than ranger in general. Oh hey, I forgot to tell you how much I hate bows on warrior and thief.
^.^ <3 and whatever things you like

as a combo freak i’d vouch for longbow warrior in this matchup

-10 pts to SimpleKingly for ‘moron’
+5 pts to DallasisaLeo for constructive advice
+5 pts to Recycle for being good guy

It definitely depends on what you want to do and your personal play style.

Warrior and thief are more support with the bows. Warrior is great for AOE and using burning. So if you choose to go that path it might be best to focus on condition damage. Thieves are also great with condition damage due to cluster bomb and poison cloud, pretty much the 2 skills you will be using. I know a main play style with that would be to stand in combo fields and spam cluster bumb (like ranger’s healing skill).

The issue I think you will face is both of these classes are much better with different weapons. Of course you can use these bows, but almost every build you find will be using these as secondary/backup weapons.

I know you dislike ranger (so do I even though I have a level 80… or maybe especially since I have a level 80) but that really is the only viable class to main a bow with.

Ethics I love you, always have the best answers <3

Hahaha, thanks! I’m glad you got the answer you were seeking. If you need anything else let me know, I’m happy to help. Sorry about bailing on AC, we’ll definitely hit it up sometime.