Guild Wars 2

Spvp pros, is there ANY possible way to make this weapon viable on tpvp?

Give it to a warrior?

I guess you could try remorseless (comes with precise strike), hunter’s shot->weapon swap->maul crit and pretend you’re a thief? That’s 18 stacks of vuln too if the fight just started. The auto sucks, but the other skills aren’t completely horrible. IDK though, I’m definitely no pro.

Mammoth.1975:

Give it to a warrior?

lol

Yeah but when someone mentions a longbow warrior, I always ask myself, why not HGH grenade engi then… :S

Longbow mainly just gives the warrior some positional flexibility so they can keep up dps and adren without having to overextend or stand in the red circles in group fights. It’s pretty rare for the longbow to get the final hit from what I have seen, the real focus tends to be on the other weapon set. That’s the one they use to push kills. Seen a few warriors use it pretty effectively, although I personally prefer to face longbows than double melee sets.

longbow for warriors is great as it provides a lot of utility and aoe pressure – and you dont need to hit anything with f1 to trigger cleansing ire.

as for rangers – longbow is currently not viable, even though the weapon and its kit might have its uses it is mostly due to power builds paleing in comparison to a mixed dps/ condition focused build in spvp due to the classes mechanic.
granting players active control over the other 2 pet skills would propably make power builds a lot more viable.
( as in using moa + TU with a valkyrie amulet and scholar runes. sth along the lines of 30/25/5/10 )
but as it stands right now, longbow is barely viable in spvp – i tried longbow with 30 pts in bm for the stealth + quickness stomp but it was gimmicky at best.

LB is good damage. You just need to swap it out after you use the burst CD’s from it. The knock back is great as well for holding points.

While most don’t consider it important, the knock-back (“point-blank shot”) is amazing at skyhammer, esp. if you want to control sky-hammer. It is pretty much an instant-kill if you position well and they don’t have stability.

Ranger lb is not that bad, it’s not a weapon related problem. Power builds for rangers are usually not as good as the condi ones. This is the first problem. The second one is, as a ranger, you are pretty much forced to spec 30 point in ws to get empathic bond.
I play sometimes a lb/gs zerker spec but in a game like gw2, where spamming things works too well currently, that’s not really viable. A spec like that requires too sophisticated gameplay…a spirit ranger is way easier to play and way more effective.