Guild Wars 2

Seriously why do we not have any? it’s a close range weapon and you’re most obviously going to be in the face of mobs. AoE melee attack skill would be pretty handy imo and very ranger like.

Oh and pls don’t say that the shortbow is a condition weapon ;-;

Poison Volley (2) is kind of a de facto melee attack.

I dunno, Short bow still has 900 range and is supposed to be a mobile kiting/flanking weapon. Generally speaking most ranged weapons in this game do not mix ranged and melee attacks. I don’t think I agree that I’d want a melee attack. If you really want to get out of melee range, use Quick Shot (3).

I always wanted this too, if nothing else than for a wicked looking melee attack something like either a knockdown by a double handed wack of your bow into your poor victims temple, or maybe grabbing an arrow by the hand and stabbing them in the eye causing blind and bleed while sumersaulting backwards like kittening legolas in the olympics xD

You have just made my day xD stabbing foe in eye hahaha

Maybe poison volley should be replaced with a strangle attack. You just need to attack the player from behind but it results in an auto-kill lol

Remember, even though most professions have good gap closing skills, our bows are so dangerous that they have to do much less damage than melee weapons. (Yeah, I haven’t figured that logic out yet either)

So they would have to make a shortbow melee attack much stronger than it’s other skills. I wouldn’t count on that happening.

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Seriously why do we not have any? it’s a close range weapon and you’re most obviously going to be in the face of mobs. AoE melee attack skill would be pretty handy imo and very ranger like.

Oh and pls don’t say that the shortbow is a condition weapon ;-;

You could just swap to a melee weapon for that ya know. Please do not give them more ideas to make weapons worse than they already are.