Guild Wars 2

jesus no one plays longbow zerky rangers anymore?? it was one of the most fun build! snipin from a far all these heads

All of the longbows in Tyria were thrown into the Mystic Forge. All that’s left are swords, daggers, axes, and torches.

And bears. Lots of bears.

I play a longbow ranger, but not in pve, I play it in pvp-hotjoin.
as much as it’s not viable in pve it’s even more useless in pvp :\
but it’s still really fun and that’s why I play it

For some reason everyone gets kittened off if I use my longbow and full zerker. I hitting for 4k with the longbow all the while my pet does around 1k. 103 crit damage + 3.48k attack

People get really kittened if I join their team for an Arah run. Haven’t got kicked for being a ranger yet though. Probably because I don’t use useless bears. Stalker, and red moa for the might and fury stacks ftw.

Im doing lb/gs zerk ranger, but I gave up the team play since pug hates rangers. I just solo with him and use warrior for teams.

Chewablesleeptablet.3185:

For some reason everyone gets kittened off if I use my longbow and full zerker.

The reason as I see it is that lb is not very good for stacking. You need to be at max range for the max damage.

How can one just play with weapon A and B and nothing else? You don’t have to pick 2 weapons. You have to play with all of them. I play with a sword, a horn and two axes. And if I have to kite → shortbow. Against ranged enemies → longbow. Only torch seems very useless and GS hits less than the sword actually.

Xyonon.3987:

How can one just play with weapon A and B and nothing else? You don’t have to pick 2 weapons. You have to play with all of them. I play with a sword, a horn and two axes. And if I have to kite -> shortbow. Against ranged enemies -> longbow. Only torch seems very useless and GS hits less than the sword actually.

Torch is superb when you have a LH ele in your group, couple that with the flame trap and you can keep a pretty darn good uptime on fire fields for your ele to blast. And GS is useful when you need to stack at max melee range like when fighting against Old Tom in the Uncategorized fractal.

What is “max melee range” supposed to be?

Like when you have sit behind an earth elemental summoned by an ele for the Old Tom fight so it can tank the poison projectiles that can’t be reflected or blocked. Using a sword in that fight just sucks you past the elemental and gets you killed.

There are not that many situations where it needs to be used but it’s better than sitting there spamming SB autoattack.

Xyonon.3987:

How can one just play with weapon A and B and nothing else? You don’t have to pick 2 weapons.

You certainly don’t have to pick only 2 weapons and nothing else. Play with anything that fits your playing style best.
My meaning was that after trying several weapon combinations, I finally settled on lb and gs, and I made only 3 ascended weapons for my ranger since I don’t use him neither in fractals nor dungeons, and these are the lb, gs and sw, and I also keep an exotic horn and dagger in my inventory. And for my needs it’s enough.

Chewablesleeptablet.3185:

For some reason everyone gets kittened off if I use my longbow and full zerker. I hitting for 4k with the longbow all the while my pet does around 1k. 103 crit damage + 3.48k attack

People get really kittened if I join their team for an Arah run. Haven’t got kicked for being a ranger yet though. Probably because I don’t use useless bears. Stalker, and red moa for the might and fury stacks ftw.

Longbow AA at max range does comparable dps to GS AA, GS dps is further enhanced by maul and the fact that you share boons with allies. Then on top of that sword is ahead of GS anyway (but riskier agreed). If you’re LB AA dps you’re doing it wrong tbh. What you do in open world is up to you, but in dungeons…