Guild Wars 2

Please make it so that the ranger either fires 2 arrows per cycle (so the animation shoots 5 times) or half the arrows and double the damage.

The animation is beyond silly.

I can’t see the youtube videos so no idea what they’re showing, but I agree that the animation is very bad now.

Lets wait and see how things play out a couple weeks though. I have a feeling ANet will cave to the pressure and want to nerf RF and simply changing it to shoot 1 arrow for the full damage of RF after a 2.5 charge up may be their solution :/

Firing an arrow every .5 seconds would also be fine.

Atherakhia.4086:

I can’t see the youtube videos so no idea what they’re showing, but I agree that the animation is very bad now.

Lets wait and see how things play out a couple weeks though. I have a feeling ANet will cave to the pressure and want to nerf RF and simply changing it to shoot 1 arrow for the full damage of RF after a 2.5 charge up may be their solution :/

Firing an arrow every .5 seconds would also be fine.

The video I linked shows a real life guy shooting 10 arrows in 4.9 seconds.

That matches the old Rapid Fire speed. The new speed, especially in combination with Quickening Zephyr, is indeed silly.

the guy in the video didn’t Train from a young age ether, that could be shaved down to like 3.5secs.

What he is implying is: if a archer that has tried to rediscover old archery techniques can do this why wouldn’t a legendary hero who trained his whole life not do better?

Zenos Osgorma.2936:

the guy in the video didn’t Train from a young age ether, that could be shaved down to like 3.5secs.

What is it with people always saying that people are better at something if they are trained from a young age?

One of the best Archers in the World that broke several world records between 2008-2011 never even picked up a bow until 2006. That’s two years to get better than everyone else, including the ones who have been shooting bows since childhood.

das Keks.5403:

That matches the old Rapid Fire speed. The new speed, especially in combination with Quickening Zephyr, is indeed silly.

Whether RF is 10 shots in 2.5 sec with a 0.375 coefficient each, or 5 shots in 2.5 sec with 0.75 coefficient each is immaterial. Both would deliver the same damage and DPS.

Rapid Fire is supposed to be a “fire a bunch of arrows really fast for extra damage” skill for ranger longbow. The exact implementation is beside the point.

I’m actually hoping they change it to 5 shots with 0.75 coefficient each. I suspect a lot of the outrage over it is because people panic when they see themselves hit 4 times per second. Lower it to 2 times per second and they’ll instead think “ok, this is bad but I can deal with it.” Even though the damage is the same.

How about the fact that our bows don’t even have ARROWS nocked on them?!?!

I actually quite enjoy the new animation. Realism isn’t exactly a factor when we throw incomprehensibly unrealistic traps, go invulnerable, summon magical creatures by raising our hands and snapping, and pokeball an assortment of pets at our disposal.

Chrispy.5641:

Zenos Osgorma.2936:

the guy in the video didn’t Train from a young age ether, that could be shaved down to like 3.5secs.

What is it with people always saying that people are better at something if they are trained from a young age?

One of the best Archers in the World that broke several world records between 2008-2011 never even picked up a bow until 2006. That’s two years to get better than everyone else, including the ones who have been shooting bows since childhood.

well those people are the Exception , going by what his Research books ect a army of young trained bow users just like him.

one in the hundreds could be the same as the guy that became extremely good in just 2 years.

jcbroe.4329:

I actually quite enjoy the new animation. Realism isn’t exactly a factor when we throw incomprehensibly unrealistic traps, go invulnerable, summon magical creatures by raising our hands and snapping, and pokeball an assortment of pets at our disposal.

Also the absolutely limitless supply of throwing axes. Doubly unbelievable when you’re using the large double bladed axe skins. Where am I keeping all of those?!

you don’t want to know the answer

Just give my ranger an AK-47 while the skill is active…