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Be a Ranger, not an archer
I do far more damage with LB than with GS infact I only use GS to run away or to catch up..
Why are people saying ranger does more damage? I can dish out a full 20k burst with long bow with rapid fire while with GS I’m lucky if I get a 2-4k crit with the second skill
You do realize that Rapid Fire shows you the added up damage of all shots, not the damage of each individual shot, right? Each arrow deals about 2k.
If you manage to get ~20k damage with Rapid Fire you should see around 9k numbers with Greatsword #2; if not the circumstances have changed, e.g. because you were down-leveled.
Woaww, did just OP asked us to use a specific meta build?
Welcome Diversity, Welcome Free Choice, Welcome your Own Taste!Well, no thanks. I’m not using 1h Sword because it’s 2 skills I don’t like at all.
GS feels mutch better, but it’s AA dodges are hard to sync – usualy not worth mutch.
And wouldn’t sacrifice LB’s traited 1500 range, which is still short at some terrain…
Agreed, the sword skills are utterly garbage compared to Warrior, the only thing it has going for it is “Velcro Monkey” rooting and even then in a zerg thats asking for trouble.
Greatsword is ok but needs more buffs, to get the half the DPS of a tank warrior you have to go zerk and that leads to all sorts of issues of survivalist tactics. Range too easy so less DPS some say…, rubbish. I have seen eles, thieves, Mesmer GS do awesome damage at ranged, why are the rangers and engies suffering? This is what I cannot understand.
Rangers and engies are actually penalized for range DPS when others are given quite substantial damage. Eles, Thieves and Mesmer also have better mobility then ranger and engies, so why are these two so heavily neutered to the weapon sets they depend on.
So there seems to be some conflict in the Anet mindset of what constitutes ranged weapons and the classes that use them. I mean the Ranger shortbow, the condition have been poor since the beginning, as a power weapon on zerk it gets no where as near the damage it would on another bow sharing class. So what is its use when it cannot deliver as either long or close ranged unless it was in the hands of another of the above classes. So yes I find it very strange how developers actually figure balancing out. And no. lets not even begin to mention the problems of Entangle.
I see the ranger like the BAE Trident compared with a pile of Airbus and 737s, wonderful equipment, very good design but the power in its engines lack and there for are superseded by the rest. Not saying I don’t enjoy playing ranger but i rather play my mesmer for the stealth and clones or a thief for its “press and play” playstyle.
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