Guild Wars 2

I’m not sure how to put this in words, but I want to play the normal Archer archetype. Like I said, I’m not sure how to put in words.

I don’t want to use a pet though I have to, but I want to heavily rely on them.

I just want to use a bow, and have tons of mobility.

Like I said, hard to put in words, but hopefully someone understands.

What kidn of setup can I use?

You can make a Thief and spec for SB. Great movement speed, traps, caltrops…

You’re saying that you don’t want an animal companion.

That is the same thing as saying that you don’t want to play a ranger.

The closest thing to what you want is a longbow warrior. I suggest you take a look at their longbow and utility skills and give it a good thought.

Currently the ranger does not have a very viable archer build. The SB and the LB both do not cause enough damage alone, unfortunately we are tied to the pets. The pet does about half of our damage, without them you won’t take anyone down. Until Anet realizes that making the pet, an unreliable AI which dies in two hits, responsible for half of our damage is a mistake, we’re stuck as wannabe archer’s that can’t do burst DPS with our bows. As it stands right now, Anet see’s the ‘ranger’ or ‘archer’ portion of our class as being the consistent dps ‘mechanic’ for our class and has our pet’s handling the ‘burst’ portion of our DPS, however, the pet’s die way to fast, horrible AI that doesn’t avoid/dodge area effects, and low HP so they die in two hits, which means we are left with no burst and in PvP or WvW, burst is all that counts. Even in PvE, without the pet you’ll be kiting around the mobs for a long time compaired to any other class that will take it down within 10 seconds.

Agadar.4931:

The closest thing to what you want is a longbow warrior. I suggest you take a look at their longbow and utility skills and give it a good thought.

Longbow warriors are garbage and completely un-viable in a pvp setting.

Go with the shortbow thief as the above poster said, they fit the archer role fine and their shortbow has some of the best bow mechanics in the game for taking people out.

Braxxus.2904:

Agadar.4931:

The closest thing to what you want is a longbow warrior. I suggest you take a look at their longbow and utility skills and give it a good thought.

Longbow warriors are garbage and completely un-viable in a pvp setting.

Go with the shortbow thief as the above poster said, they fit the archer role fine and their shortbow has some of the best bow mechanics in the game for taking people out.

All of those claims are debatable.

Braxxus.2904:

Agadar.4931:

The closest thing to what you want is a longbow warrior. I suggest you take a look at their longbow and utility skills and give it a good thought.

Longbow warriors are garbage and completely un-viable in a pvp setting.

Go with the shortbow thief as the above poster said, they fit the archer role fine and their shortbow has some of the best bow mechanics in the game for taking people out.

Rifle warrior, you can 1 shot thieves and hit for 12k easy….

> I just want to use a bow, and have tons of mobility.

then pick a bow then take an axe and warhorn for mobility.

Agadar.4931:

All of those claims are debatable.

Please link stream/vids or pages of tourney teams running lonbow warrior with success please.