Guild Wars 2

Is longbow viable in PvE for DH? All the PvE builds I’ve seen don’t use LB at all. I’m clueless when it comes to DH lol.

Viable? Yes. Ideal? No. Scepter is higher overall damage. Maybe lb is good fof burst just like gs is but if you’re doing challenging content such as high fractals or raids, lb is not the weapon to use.

Longbow’s only advantage in PvE is 1200 range, which you rarely (if ever) need. For pretty much anything else, scepter with the proper offhand is superior.

LB is actually better than Sc when you open world or do large metas, because it has better multi-target pressure than Sc. It pretty much depends on what you do. Guardians now have weapons for almost every situation.

How does lb have better multi target pressure than a spammable symbol?

Kuya.6495:

How does lb have better multi target pressure than a spammable symbol?

Bouncing AA. Piercing #2. Piercing #3. Symbol on #4. Large area #5. Every attack on LB hits more than 1 target.

That’s true but Scepter #2 hits hard and is spammable — it has near 100% uptime when traited for healing symbols. It’s also “parallel damage” so you get Scepter #1 will the symbol ticks. That’s true of the bow symbol, but you can’t spam LB #4.

The Scepter #2 symbol can also get up to +30% crit from traits which is pretty huge.

So I think saying “LB is actually better than Sc” is not accurate. Each is better in different situations.

in PvE, I’d place the spammable symbol above the bow due to the mob AI and design of many events. In WvW, there are situations for either.

juno.1840:

So I think saying “LB is actually better than Sc” is not accurate. Each is better in different situations.

That’s what I said….

Yannir.4132:

juno.1840:

So I think saying “LB is actually better than Sc” is not accurate. Each is better in different situations.

That’s what I said….

Yeah you did! I see that now.