Guild Wars 2

Hello everyone!
With recent preview of ranger balance changes I took closer look at greatsword and longbow (last time I used them was really long time ago) and here are my questions:
1. Last skill from ranger greatsword autoattack chain evades for one second. Is this time decreased while ranger is affected by quickness buff? Question comes up after observation that distance travelled with swoop skill while quickened is indeed reduced (due to shorter activation time of skill). Anyone got information if it is also the case with evasion?
2. This is more cosmetic stuff, last time we got reduced aftercast for skill (longbow autoattack) we lost really nice animation of drawing an arrow from quiver. Has anyone observed if this will repeat with animation of kick for counterattack skill (num. 4 for greatsword)? I couldnt really notice it as I have ranger norn and couldnt see from Ready Up stream if anything changed for charr ranger.

Hi,
1. I noticed the same thing, 99% sure evade duration and disttance travel are smaller under the effect of QZ. I think its a bad design and a shame because GS auto attack+QZ sould have been somthing close to mesmer’s “Blurred Frenzy” while you manage to hit the target. Its actually 1 of the things that could of made ranger’s GS speical and standout in melee combat. They realy should change\fix that.
2. Like you i have a norn and like you saied the counterattack animation is not realy noticeable but you can realy feel root and the long recovery time which makes the skill counterproductive in meny situations. Realy looking forward for the cahnge.

1) the evade duration is shorter, but it’s not worse, when I pop quickness on GS it’s normally done as a “defensive” CD since you evade more often than you would making it so you evade a lot more attacks during your quickness bursts than you would without them, even though you have the shorter evade. It’s probably done to prevent us from becoming invulnerable to attacks while dishing out a lot more damage tbh…

2) the animations for drawing the arrows still there, at least it is for Sylvari… And I didn’t notice anything being cut from the charr animation, granted I don’t play a female charr very often (had an alt for a while that was a female charr ranger tho) and it looks the same… Maybe someone else noticed something being cut though?