Guild Wars 2

I believe the new mm gm trait should increase ALL projectile speeds jnstead of just longbow. Axe particularly needs to be a bit faster. Read the wind should also increase all projectile dmg by 5% like eagle eye.

Next eagle eye needs to apply increased range to short bow as well. On top of what it does already.

And finally honed axes trait should increase axe throw range to 1200 on top of what it already does.

These three changes will go a long way in making power rangers more viable without directly increasing their dmg.

idevourwater.3149:

I believe the new mm gm trait should increase ALL projectile speeds jnstead of just longbow. Axe particularly needs to be a bit faster. Read the wind should also increase all projectile dmg by 5% like eagle eye.

Next eagle eye needs to apply increased range to short bow as well. On top of what it does already.

And finally honed axes trait should increase axe throw range to 1200 on top of what it already does.

These three changes will go a long way in making power rangers more viable without directly increasing their dmg.

Axe would SUFFER from being at 1200 range since Splitblade would be gutted, and there’s no real advantage for you to be that far away at all as an axe/x ranger. Axe wants to be close to the action, but not close enough to be hit by those silly melee users, it’s a mid/frotline weapon. SB is a midline weapon, and longbow is a midline/backline weapon.

That being said, I was hoping Read the Wind would be ALL projectiles because I would love to have my axes fly faster, ESPECIALLY Path of Scars.

Granted, Shortbow doesn’t really need the projectile increase since its projectiles fly pretty fast to begin with, but It’d be nice nonetheless.

As for the damage boost it’s not NEEDED, but it’d be nice, tbh i’d prefer all our projectile finishers becoming a 50% or higher finisher to give us a lot more synergy and adaptability, but that’s just me.

Yeah, it should affect all projectiles, including pet ones. But axe at 1200 is not good, as Durz stated, I would prefer;

Honed Axes
Main hand Axe attacks deal +10% damage, cause torment for 2s and bounce to one
additional target.

I see no reason it shouldn’t affect all projectiles.

I just wish the trait did more. I personally will never use something just to improve projectile speed in WvW simply because the majority of the time I couldn’t care less if the shot hits what I’m aiming at or not. I’m firing blindly into a zerg anyway. In duels, I rarely get strafed because 9 times out of 10 they want to melee me anyway.

I really wish they would have merged something like piercing arrows or eagle eye with it and replaced those traits with something non-longbow specific.