Guild Wars 2

Hey. So we get bow in HOT. I saw bow skills and i think they are awesome.
So this make me think, how scepter skills looks in compare with bow.
bow have combo field, scepter does not.
bow skill nr1 is 1200 range fast arrow that can hit 2 targets.
scepter skill nr1 is 1200 range… very slow and almost usless on targets that moves even a little.
Imo, scepter skills 1 and 2 should be reworked a little to be more usefull.
I would make nr1 skill 900 range and fast as bow arrows or laser channeling.
nr2 skill some combo field but also 900 range
Those changes would make scepter more usefull and less annoying in my opinion
Any thoughts?

The Scepter+Focus combo will still be a more viable 1v1 option than Bow.
The Bow is a more viable 3v3+ Zerging weapon that the Scepter.

Bow has excellent Zerging abilities like perma Cripple on three targets, #5’s AoE pindown and finally a high damaging piercing shot that also reflects projectiles.

Scepter is fine in melee range but not so much over 400 radius. It’s single targeting abilities such as #2 & #3, along with cleanses, and blocks on Focus #4 & #5 makes sce/f combo a sure winner for 1v1/2v2 small skirmish fights.

It’s ultimately going to depend on build specializations and play styles but I see a lot of WvW Guardians choosing the Bow for obvious reasons. I’ll probably be one of the DH Guardians who chooses Scepter/Focus over the Bow because I’m going Condition spec.

Sce/F clearly has higher F1 procs than the Bow That said, the bow is still better in Zergs scenarios. I’m torn between the two!

As a SPvP player / solo roamer, I was super excited for longbow. Then I saw that the range is the same, the “root” has a long cool down, and it generally lacks defense.

Looks like I won’t be putting down my scepter/focus. It has the same range, short cooldown imob, and the focus block.

If you don’t want to give up on the defensive stuff from focus you could still go sword/focus + longbow. Kinda weird how nobody considers that a thing.

Bow lacks a bit of defense but not terribly. Deflecting shot, when utilized properly will do wonders(Pin-down, Killshot for example). The root on Trueshot seems justified due to its low CD/burstiness.

Scepter will do fine in HoT against mobs but will be bleh against players unless the tracking is fixed.

Saiyan.1704:

Bow has excellent Zerging abilities like perma Cripple on three targets, #5’s AoE pindown and finally a high damaging piercing shot that also reflects projectiles.

Bow appeared to hit 2 not 3 targets with the auto-attack.

Number 3 doesn’t reflect projectiles it destroys them.

If you go bow, you’re locked into one trait line your virtues change. Something very important to consider.

May be worth mentioning here the viability of scepter may drop regardless as all scepter related traits are being removed while some other weapon traits are retained during the trait revamp.

They simply could be rolling it baseline into the weapon but there is absolutely no mention of that anywhere and I’m a little apprehensive to believe that since some weapon traits will remain.

Ezrael.6859:

Saiyan.1704:

Bow has excellent Zerging abilities like perma Cripple on three targets, #5’s AoE pindown and finally a high damaging piercing shot that also reflects projectiles.

Bow appeared to hit 2 not 3 targets with the auto-attack.

Number 3 doesn’t reflect projectiles it destroys them.

Ugh I really need to pay more attention i’m losing it! :p
Thanks for the correction.

Arken.3725:

Scepter will do fine in HoT against mobs but will be bleh against players unless the tracking is fixed.

This is the main issue i would like to bo fixed. dont want total rebuild, just fixing imo bad design from the beggining.