Guild Wars 2

This is relate to 30+ WvW

I see lately sometimes ele’s dropping ice bow often enough to where its more than just a few poeople. Its not meta or prevelant but happens enough where I am beggning to to wonder if its good.

Is Ice Bow new meta for ele? Or are the people noobs using it? Whats the skill rotation if so?’

Please no newbs with their personal wierd promo youtube builds respond, pros and guild players only

Its THE best tagging weapon ingame. Imagine a Meteor shower that is extremely small and fast. Allowing you to tag compact groups without any real effort invested, nor risk.

JJBigs.8456:

Is Ice Bow new meta for ele? Or are the people noobs using it? Whats the skill rotation if so?’

Ice bow is nice for doing some good aoe damage to a clumped group of people, especially when a zerg is stuck on a wall or in a tunnel. You drop the bow, press 3, press 4, then switch back to your normal weapon.

Prysin.8542:

Its THE best tagging weapon ingame. Imagine a Meteor shower that is extremely small and fast. Allowing you to tag compact groups without any real effort invested, nor risk.

The risk is it’s only 900 range, has a 2.5 second channel time, will deal a ton of retal damage to the user, and takes up a slot that could be used for a survivability skill.

Prysin.8542:

Its THE best tagging weapon ingame. Imagine a Meteor shower that is extremely small and fast. Allowing you to tag compact groups without any real effort invested, nor risk.

Not just tagging, but it can do some nice damage as well. #5 on it can help you finish anybody who is low as well. It’s a good option for anybody to take if they can survive without the extra utility.

It’s a terrible skill to take in a pug zerg, but a great dps boost if you got a good guild group.

Ice bow has no maximum targets.

You’ll tag everyone than instantly die to retaliation.

It’s a waste of an otherwise much needed utility slot against any decent group of enemies. If one of us sees an Ele dropping an Ice Bow, we only have to mitigate his #5 (if the player thinks he’s clever) and then wreck him because he lacks at least one escape utility. (usually called out as early focus target in our roaming group, just like longbow rangers, power necros and shatter mesmers)

The bigger the group you can hide in, the more “efficient” it becomes, though (read: in a big enough group everything goes).

More and more zerg busting groups, run eles with the frost bow because it allows for even harder nukes (more dead enemies faster), but as stated above: free fodder for anyone with a brain and the right skill set at her/his finger tips…

Jarrix.8234:

Ice bow has no maximum targets.

Yes, it does. Each dart (20 of them for a full channel) can hit up to 5 targets.

Jarrix.8234:

You’ll tag everyone than instantly die to retaliation.

You deserve to go down if you spam your AoE onto a fully buffed melee ball…

It’s good as long as the group your dropping it on doesn’t have a few people with the retaliation buff. If they do, you literally will die in 1 second or less, it’s funny yet sad at the same time.

It’s much better used as a sneak attack weapon.. like on an unsuspecting group who just dropped rams and are PvD’ing door. Kill a lot of baddies that way.

It comes at such a great risk. 2.5s cast time makes you a sitting duck and you’ll take so much damage back from retaliation.

But I still use it, because I like seeing lots of numbers.

Ice bow is an amazing skill to situationally drop a cantrip for. It’s really good for dual melee heavies, and yourself with D/D when extra pressure is needed on enemies camping a higher position, like a wall or tower lord’s room. In open field zerg combat, I would only use it if you’re completely comfortable with 1 less defensive skill and facing a really tight melee train, or in a situation where the zerg has to come through a choke, or is stacked up being stupid with PvD or the like.

Blix.8021:

JJBigs.8456:

Is Ice Bow new meta for ele? Or are the people noobs using it? Whats the skill rotation if so?’

Ice bow is nice for doing some good aoe damage to a clumped group of people, especially when a zerg is stuck on a wall or in a tunnel. You drop the bow, press 3, press 4, then switch back to your normal weapon.

Prysin.8542:

Its THE best tagging weapon ingame. Imagine a Meteor shower that is extremely small and fast. Allowing you to tag compact groups without any real effort invested, nor risk.

The risk is it’s only 900 range, has a 2.5 second channel time, will deal a ton of retal damage to the user, and takes up a slot that could be used for a survivability skill.

uhm dunno if this is a bug, but i do not take retal damage from it more then one hit… Dunno why.

Prysin.8542:

Blix.8021:

JJBigs.8456:

Is Ice Bow new meta for ele? Or are the people noobs using it? Whats the skill rotation if so?’

Ice bow is nice for doing some good aoe damage to a clumped group of people, especially when a zerg is stuck on a wall or in a tunnel. You drop the bow, press 3, press 4, then switch back to your normal weapon.

Prysin.8542:

Its THE best tagging weapon ingame. Imagine a Meteor shower that is extremely small and fast. Allowing you to tag compact groups without any real effort invested, nor risk.

The risk is it’s only 900 range, has a 2.5 second channel time, will deal a ton of retal damage to the user, and takes up a slot that could be used for a survivability skill.

uhm dunno if this is a bug, but i do not take retal damage from it more then one hit… Dunno why.

I killed myself with retal today ( I don’t know how to ele) using ice bow, so I think it’s a bug. Unless, on the very off chance, your enemy didn’t have much retal.

warriorjrd.8695:

Prysin.8542:

Blix.8021:

JJBigs.8456:

Is Ice Bow new meta for ele? Or are the people noobs using it? Whats the skill rotation if so?’

Ice bow is nice for doing some good aoe damage to a clumped group of people, especially when a zerg is stuck on a wall or in a tunnel. You drop the bow, press 3, press 4, then switch back to your normal weapon.

Prysin.8542:

Its THE best tagging weapon ingame. Imagine a Meteor shower that is extremely small and fast. Allowing you to tag compact groups without any real effort invested, nor risk.

The risk is it’s only 900 range, has a 2.5 second channel time, will deal a ton of retal damage to the user, and takes up a slot that could be used for a survivability skill.

uhm dunno if this is a bug, but i do not take retal damage from it more then one hit… Dunno why.

I killed myself with retal today ( I don’t know how to ele) using ice bow, so I think it’s a bug. Unless, on the very off chance, your enemy didn’t have much retal.

It’s very hard to kill yourself with retal if you’re in water attunement. You can also cancel the skill to heal up.

Reverence.6915:

warriorjrd.8695:

Prysin.8542:

Blix.8021:

JJBigs.8456:

Is Ice Bow new meta for ele? Or are the people noobs using it? Whats the skill rotation if so?’

Ice bow is nice for doing some good aoe damage to a clumped group of people, especially when a zerg is stuck on a wall or in a tunnel. You drop the bow, press 3, press 4, then switch back to your normal weapon.

Prysin.8542:

Its THE best tagging weapon ingame. Imagine a Meteor shower that is extremely small and fast. Allowing you to tag compact groups without any real effort invested, nor risk.

The risk is it’s only 900 range, has a 2.5 second channel time, will deal a ton of retal damage to the user, and takes up a slot that could be used for a survivability skill.

uhm dunno if this is a bug, but i do not take retal damage from it more then one hit… Dunno why.

I killed myself with retal today ( I don’t know how to ele) using ice bow, so I think it’s a bug. Unless, on the very off chance, your enemy didn’t have much retal.

It’s very hard to kill yourself with retal if you’re in water attunement. You can also cancel the skill to heal up.

Yeah, like I said I don’t know how to ele =p

Reverence.6915:

warriorjrd.8695:

Prysin.8542:

Blix.8021:

JJBigs.8456:

Is Ice Bow new meta for ele? Or are the people noobs using it? Whats the skill rotation if so?’

Ice bow is nice for doing some good aoe damage to a clumped group of people, especially when a zerg is stuck on a wall or in a tunnel. You drop the bow, press 3, press 4, then switch back to your normal weapon.

Prysin.8542:

Its THE best tagging weapon ingame. Imagine a Meteor shower that is extremely small and fast. Allowing you to tag compact groups without any real effort invested, nor risk.

The risk is it’s only 900 range, has a 2.5 second channel time, will deal a ton of retal damage to the user, and takes up a slot that could be used for a survivability skill.

uhm dunno if this is a bug, but i do not take retal damage from it more then one hit… Dunno why.

I killed myself with retal today ( I don’t know how to ele) using ice bow, so I think it’s a bug. Unless, on the very off chance, your enemy didn’t have much retal.

It’s very hard to kill yourself with retal if you’re in water attunement. You can also cancel the skill to heal up.

Water attunement doesn’t have anything to do with killing yourself by retal. As was stated earlier in this thread, ice bow does 20 separate 5 target aoes.

Assuming every hit returns retaliation, that’s 100 hits of retaliation, presumably for about 200-250 damage each. That adds up to…20,000-25,000 damage from retaliation. Water attunement isn’t going to save you, canceling the skill rapidly might.