People have different play styles so if your style is melee or you just really like throwing axes thats cool. But alot of people argue between long bow and short bow. If using a bow is your playstyle I found that using both is the most effective.
Standoffs and sieges longbow has its ovious stregnths. Long range shots will catch alot of people offguard and not paying attention and drop them. barrage is one of the most powerful abilities in WvW at killing and stopping an enemy charge.
Now for roaming around and close range fights i found this works extremely well. Run with longbow in your hands, you have knockback rdy incase a thief pops on you just get jumped on out of nowhere. the main focus tho is you can open with vulnerablilty shot, then swap to shortbow, (weapon swap buffs are up)cripple shot and unload damage.
during skirmishes when you abilities are all down and the enemy is still on you can alway swap to longbow, pushback and aim a quick barrage between you and then use rapidfire. by this time you can swap back to shortbow and abities will be back.
Im full damage spec and gear but i use frost trap and spike trap and they work very well at keeping me alive in open field. along with the elite vine skill.
I’ve been using LB/SB for quite some time now and I’ve been having fun with it.
I have Lightning Reflexes, Muddy Terrain and Quickening Zephyr for my Utilities, they’re all a staple for WvW for me really. LR MT for Defensive MT QZ for Offensive. RaO for elite, but i kinda wanna try the vine skill sometime soon
Double bow is great. I find combined with the 2 sec swiftness on pet swap and fury/swiftness on weapon swap, you can set up some pretty heavy burst chains on people.
Only thing i don’t like is not being able to target entangling roots when they hit me – for some reason only melee weapons work on them
Im not sure I can give up using horn, weapon swap and quickening zephyr with a one hand sword from behind a guy caught in my roots… I feel like a thief…
