Guild Wars 2

I’ve been playing awhile now and though my initial plan was to go longbow for the traditional ranger feel … I can’t help but feel after playing with the shortbow that there is just no reason to do this outside of the nice barrage aoe the longbow gets.

The shortbow might due less damage but it fires at least two arrows to the longbow’s one so it catches up with base damage already. Add in the fact that longbow’s rapid fire barely shoots faster then the shortbow’s regular fire rate about about the same damage and its a bit disheartening. This isn’t even taking into account that the longbow has to be at max range just to even start coming close to the shortbow.

And this is all WITHOUT the fact that if you’re flanking, the shortbow bleeds the target so you’re just lapping the longbow after a point. I would love to just use the shortbow and be happy with it but it looks like a friggen toy as tiny as it is.

Did anyone else find this to be true too?

I love how the shortbow feels. And the fact that it does well in combat is just gravy.

As far as the small look… i got used to it and it doesnt bother me as much. You probably will too if you give it a good chance!

Everyone knows, it’s not the size, but how you use it.

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