Guild Wars 2

EDIT: Should say, for PVE. Don’t really care about PVP much.

Curious if there is a viable DPS/Support build out there for the Guardian Longbow.

I like using Bow of Truth, just kinda fun, unsure if it is at all really useful though.

Also use Hold the Line, and Procession.

Like being able to heal, but also want to make sure my DPS is decent enough.

Any help would be appreciated.

Well, you can hardly expect any reasonable build with that. You choose a weapon that has little to no support itself and is bad at dps. Shouts are bad, being able to dps and heal is rather contradictory in itself and the bow of truth is a joke.

Reality is simple: For most of PvE, the hammer dps build offers the best compromise of support and damage. For more damage, go for the GS/Sc-T build. For more support, do whatever you want, but don’t expect to be objectively good at anything. It won’t work.

Ah, the most feared answer you can get.

Why would you want support for pve?

You CAN do everything in a build, but you end up doing everything poorly.
Specialize, focus, min\max
Or, Google

If you want something similar to Bow of Truth that isn’t garbage, use Sanctuary (assuming you’re using BoT for the active).

Fashion Mage.3712:

If you want something similar to Bow of Truth that isn’t garbage, use Sanctuary (assuming you’re using BoT for the active).

Okay! I’ll give that a shot, thanks for the feedback.

I’m using bow regardless. The support I wanted mostly as secondary. Is there certain stats I want with the bow?

If you wanna deal damage and heal at the same time you can use Zealot stats. Bow of Truth’s active scales decently with healing power if I recall correctly.

If you’re just talking about the longbow and not BoT, then damage stats is all you need there, although I’m not sure how much the bow is used in PvE (or any mode since it got nerfed).

Fashion Mage.3712:

If you wanna deal damage and heal at the same time you can use Zealot stats. Bow of Truth’s active scales decently with healing power if I recall correctly.

If you’re just talking about the longbow and not BoT, then damage stats is all you need there, although I’m not sure how much the bow is used in PvE (or any mode since it got nerfed).

Yeah, just curious what stats I should use for DPS though. The build I was looking at was berserk, but I heard that was nerfed to the ground…

Berserker is still the go-to stat for power damage and power damage is what guardians do.

CptAurellian.9537:

Berserker is still the go-to stat for power damage and power damage is what guardians do.

Thanks Cap!

I play solo a lot in pve. I use the long bow with spirit weapons. The sprite wea pons can tank in many scenarios while you dps with the bow.

Granrey.8920:

I play solo a lot in pve. I use the long bow with spirit weapons. The sprite wea pons can tank in many scenarios while you dps with the bow.

Which ones do you take with you?