Guild Wars 2

I have Berserker’s Pearl Staff on both my Mesmer and Guardian but, the range of attack of the Staff is a lot, lot less on the Guardian, why? Weapons attack range is the same for Short Bows for different Professions.

Because they are different professions. You can’t really say that just because one professions uses a weapon a certain way then all professions should use it the same way. also the guardians staff has a large cone that can hit 5 people each attack. Don’t try to compare profession weapon skills you might go crazy. And if you want to get technical with the weapons the shortbow is a physical weapon so you cant really get different ranges with it, meaning if you pull it all the way back then it can only go so far. A staff on the other hand is a magical weapon so the user has more control of what that weapon does.

FYI, ranger shortbow auto-attack is range 1200, thief shortbow auto-attack is range 900.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Crossfire
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Trick_Shot

your logic is undeniable. give me a 900 range chop

The weapons dont have a range. The skills you are using through the weapons have a range. The auto-attack is basicly spamming skill 1 (on default, you can always change the auto-attack skill).

Staff skill one on a mesmer has a range of 1200. Staff skill one on a guardian has a range of 600. It’s the skill thats being channeled through the weapon that does the damage and so also the range. Not the weapon itself.

and my engineer can lob 3 grenades at the same time farther than any bow can propel an arrow or pistol/rifle propel a bullet.

Khisanth.2948:

and my engineer can lob 3 grenades at the same time farther than any bow can propel an arrow or pistol/rifle propel a bullet.

eagle eye ranger disagrees

Khisanth.2948:

and my engineer can lob 3 grenades at the same time farther than any bow can propel an arrow or pistol/rifle propel a bullet.

Thats why I call us engineers the special ops of Tyria, we can do incredible things, too bad nobody realise it