Guild Wars 2

What is the point of having 1500 range when the weapon can only hit an immobilized foe? wtf is this? LB is a weapon i ignored since game’s launch but last update i decided to spend ~30g and make a zerker build to snipe people in wvw (cuz LB was supposed to be ‘better’ lol). WOOOOW worst idea in the passed century lol You will be very lucky if more than two arrows hit your target at ~900 range from Rapid Fire… Is this weapon supposed to be used on afk players and its not in its description?

Yup, arrows from all bows in GW2 can be easily sidestepped.

A thief with a shortbow was trying to goad me towards some guards a week or so back in WvW by shooting me with his shortbow. So I just stood 900 away and hit left, right, left, right constantly and nothing would hit me, lol. (thief shortbow used to be heat seeker but was nerfed a few patches back.)

Huh? After last update it’s a bit better. Today some guy tried to walk to sides (he thought he will troll me lol) and I hit 40-50% of shots. Not enough, but on the other side he was out of range, so I still had advantage… and my pet was on the way

Tip: run while shooting. It helps. Not only arrows somehow gets better accuracy, but also you distract enemy.

Anyway, if you meet enemy in 1v1 and he tries to run to sides to avoid arrows then you should be happy – to do it, he has to stay on range and you still deal part of bow dmg + most of pet dmg. It can be annoying, but it’s far from best way to kill bow user.

Oh no, a ranged weapon sometimes doesn’t hit at 1500 range, must be garbage.

Terkov.4138:

Anyway, if you meet enemy in 1v1 and he tries to run to sides to avoid arrows then you should be happy – to do it, he has to stay on range and you still deal part of bow dmg + most of pet dmg. It can be annoying, but it’s far from best way to kill bow user.

I was on my Mesmer in my above example with a greatsword. So he missed, I didn’t. It is a definite disadvantage, that is all.

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

Oh no, a ranged weapon sometimes doesn’t hit at 1500 range, must be garbage.

Sorry you had to go so far out of the way to miss the point. That must have been inconvenient for you.

The engineers 1500 range AoE grenades always hit, its Ranger its kitten…

Warrior rifle hits instantly while having Killshot that hits like a crazy mofo and we have arrows that move slower than a turtle… In gw1 we had the same thing (not on all bows because there was many kinds) but at least we had access to spirits and preparations that speed up our arrows. In gw2 we have nothing like that so its pretty much #dealwithit from anet… Not a surprise everyone uses SB or even Axe for range

Nuka Cola.8520:

Warrior rifle hits instantly while having Killshot that hits like a crazy mofo and we have arrows that move slower than a turtle… In gw1 we had the same thing (not on all bows because there was many kinds) but at least we had access to spirits and preparations that speed up our arrows. In gw2 we have nothing like that so its pretty much #dealwithit from anet… Not a surprise everyone uses SB or even Axe for range

I use sb but still haven’t got used to range nerf so often don’t get close enough before attacking =(

Meglobob.8620:

The engineers 1500 range AoE grenades always hit, its Ranger its kitten…

If the target is moving? Engineer isn’t going to hit anything with grenades at 1500. He would have to predict the where the person would be like 4 seconds ahead.

Meglobob.8620:

The engineers 1500 range AoE grenades always hit, its Ranger its kitten…

And the engi will have carpal tunnel syndrome after 5 minutes of spammin nades.