Guild Wars 2

Switching back to Longbow in WvWvW, 1500 range with peircing arrows. The QZ nerf from 100 percent to 50 percent is just to much. I played shortbow/Greatsword and its not worth it to be on the front lines anymore. Your damage wont be good enough to finish people off and you can’t switch pets to do a fast finisher. It was already hard enough trying to get your felines to do damage or any pet for that matter with all the aoes. Anyways not a big deal, this for any rangers coming back and want to know the frontline skirmish status for ranger (it’s terrible).

EDIT: Your Longbow 2 tracks people if you attack that person before they go into stealth, have fun new Rangers.

Yep, feel your pain. LB/GS build here. It’s just joke of a build now.

I would think longbow would be the last weapon you would want to use after the quickness nerf

You have to think a bit, let me help. There is no weapon now with the quickness nerf that is worth to use in wvwvw with the amount of enemy players. Using longbow traited for 1500 range you wont need much survivability if you position yourself on the field correctly, which means you wont have to sacrifice survivability for damage.

Before nerf with quickness 100 percent i could use shortbow OR greatsword on the frontline of zerg with good damage and survivability. If i got caught there was also a very good chance I can escape. Now you wont do as much damage therefore you arnt going to be useful up front. Unless you playing bunker ranger or something but i find that very boring.

Paz Shadow.9715:

I would think longbow would be the last weapon you would want to use after the quickness nerf

You don’t need good dmg to tag people to get the bags. Just have to stay only in the zerg now.

I like roaming around 1v1ing ppl though, staying in the zerg gets meh after a while

Sylvari racial skill [grasping vines] is very good. 45 second cd and more reliable than entangle. I use that for roaming and switch back to muddy terrain for large groups. Frees up elite for Rampage as one. Also i think it works when theives use dagger storm, ive done it a couple times.