Guild Wars 2

Not sure if im going crazy but im sure staff auto attack is doing more/maybe slighty less damage than my longbow…
ive tested in pvp and im sure its close…..
if thats the case shouldnt lowbow be more powerfull i mean it is a damage weapon. look at rev hammer for eg
Also i love sword and the lock on animation but im getting tired of it, ive been playing since lunch and i want a normally 3 swing auto attack no lock on i want to be able to move around my target with out having to use 3 on sword. Also compared to other classes i feel like my damage in pve is meh
Ive been playing chronomancer in the raids and our group just cleared the first boss ( here is link) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3o5nroFyOw
I dunno i just feel like playing dps is laughable when you have so many other classes doing so much more dps.

With equal stats

• Staff Auto ANY RANGE in 5s
  3450 dmg

• Longbow Auto, LESS THAN 500 RANGE in 5s
  3409 dmg
• Longbow Auto, 500 TO 1000 RANGE in 5s
  3896 dmg
• Longbow Auto, 1000+ RANGE in 5s
  4382 dmg

So, it seems to deal better damage than LB at close range, but LB is better at long range.

Longbow’s skills all deal damage, and Rapid Fire is a huge DPS skill.

Staff only has 2 weapon skills that deal damage, it is mainly a support/defensive weapon so the DPS is still pretty low. A good thing about the Solar Beam auto-attack is that it ‘pierces’, is NOT a projectile (so not reflectable) and can affect 3 allies and 3 enemies.

ProtoMarcus.7649:

With equal stats

• Staff Auto ANY RANGE in 5s
  3450 dmg

• Longbow Auto, LESS THAN 500 RANGE in 5s
  3409 dmg
• Longbow Auto, 500 TO 1000 RANGE in 5s
  3896 dmg
• Longbow Auto, 1000+ RANGE in 5s
  4382 dmg

So, it seems to deal better damage than LB at close range, but LB is better at long range.

Longbow’s skills all deal damage, and Rapid Fire is a huge DPS skill.

Staff only has 2 weapon skills that deal damage, it is mainly a support/defensive weapon so the DPS is still pretty low. A good thing about the Solar Beam auto-attack is that it ‘pierces’, is NOT a projectile (so not reflectable) and can affect 3 allies and 3 enemies.

It is true that rapid fire has good DPS, I’m just feeling down after seeing other classes damage compared to ranger atm.
What do you thing about the sword atm ? Do you thing it would benefit from not being lock on and maybe a slight damage increase or effect of somesort

Sword has amazing DPS, and for the lockon, it’s really annoying, as I find it really useful at times, and other times, the complete opposite ahaha

I think IF they could manage to code it so the AUTOLEAP wouldn’t LEAP out of cliffs/out of platforms, it’d be thousand times better.

I like to be able to stick to my moving target,
I hate to leap of a platform to my death

ProtoMarcus.7649:

Sword has amazing DPS, and for the lockon, it’s really annoying, as I find it really useful at times, and other times, the complete opposite ahaha

I think IF they could manage to code it so the AUTOLEAP wouldn’t LEAP out of cliffs/out of platforms, it’d be thousand times better.

I like to be able to stick to my moving target,
I hate to leap of a platform to my death

I tried to use it in the raids and just found myself getting hit by raid mechanics other classes can easily step back and avoid ….
Maybe they could add in a new animation or something