Guild Wars 2

Alright, so.. I’ve got the hang of most of the longbow skills, but I’m curious about using the 5th skill in single encounters.

Do you use it defensively, centered on yourself to discourage melee?

Do you combine it with a pet?

Do you cast it as a feint to bait out an enemy?

What are your tactics with this skill?

Only time I use in single target, is when I rapid fire a thief and then he goes into stealth or open SR, I’d immediately use LB5 on his head, and usually I’d see a down body after around 15~20 secs.

Also when I see thief is meleeing me then entering stealth, I’d immediately use LB5 on top of me so thief will be more couscous about meleeing me

Aomine.5012:

Only time I use in single target, is when I rapid fire a thief and then he goes into stealth or open SR, I’d immediately use LB5 on his head, and usually I’d see a down body after around 15~20 secs.

Also when I see thief is meleeing me then entering stealth, I’d immediately use LB5 on top of me so thief will be more couscous about meleeing me

Pretty much this and using it on downed players. Just use it for area denial in small scale fights. Don’t drop it on an organized zerg unless you feel like dying to retal.

I often use it to create area of denial situations on a cap or choke point. Only foolish or really tanky opponents keep standing in it, because the damage can tick pretty hard if they decide to eat it.

Like Aomine mentions, it’s also good when an enemy thief’s Shadow Refuge goes up.

I mostly use it as an opening strike, to apply cripple for the “Predator’s Onslaught”-trait, followed by Rapid Fire, before i move into melee range.

Best use for barrage is to create a Aoe area where you can use this combo if the target dodges your RF.

RF> muddy terrain>pet swap (wolf leap)>barrage>wolf f2 (snow wolf is amazing for this aoe chill) increasing their skill cooldowns while maximising Barrage damage through predators onslaught + muddy terrain to trigger a higher damaging barrage+pet wolf leap all the while Keeping PBS ready if they avoid the whole combo.

other use is , if they gap close while avoiding RF and pbs plant barrage on yourself and use the barrages Cripple to swap to melee and Repostion quickly or chase if they choose to avoid the barrage by backing away you can keep the LB out and procced to Rf again.

Shadow Refuge and people trying to los me are biggest uses for me. Sometimes its good bait to get enemy into melee range(gotta cc vulnerable ranger!) so i can wreck with gs.

Other times its just MOAR DAMAGE!