Guild Wars 2

First off, I’m unsure if this has been suggested or not; if so I’m sorry.

The idea I was thinking about is adding more of a “Ranger” esk style unique to us to make us stand out in ranged combat more so than we may be now. The suggestion I would have is to make a set of 4 utilities to synergize with bow skills to give them more versatility and make us special at long range.

The skill sets themselves would be along the lines of say a immolation arrow, frost arrow,etc….The skills would require a bow ( short or long ) to be equipped to be used. The effect of the shot would depend on the bow being used basically.

For example, frost arrow.
With a shortbow it fires off a shot similar to poison arrow in a spray chilling people for say..2 seconds. Longbow would be a single shot that leaves a small aoe area that would freeze others inside it along with the target ( the radius could be small, nothing OP here ). Immolation could be the same for shortbow and longbow similar…small aoe field where the shot lands.

The idea beyond this is to give us a more unique style from range; make us kings of long range but more useful utility to support from range ( like we’re supposed too… ), and IMO….could replace traps….heck…you could keep the same trait effects in all honestly and just replaced them for bow utilities…greater aoe range..shorter CD…longer condition duration, yata yata. Would be a easy switch off really to do that.

Either or….Something different would be nice…that way bow users have a larger arsenal and we become more useful to a party and we have skills we would WANT to use…and not just find ourselves defaulting zepher on every bow build and LR. Plus, we would cry less about fixing bow skills and just add more options for ourselves in forms of utilities.

Opinions?

Ugh yes, i am so for this.