Guild Wars 2

Cuchullain.3104:

Beyond that, I have given examples of why the benefits of shooting at zergs with aoe often outweighs the outrageous cost. I’d like to see someone refute those examples with something other than insults and dubious claims to expertise.

Being alive means you can

• disable siege
• build counter siege
• use counter siege
• pick off strategic targets
• not rally the enemy
• not lose your stacks so that you are able to do more damage
• not contribute to enemy stacks

But if you feel that killing yourself to slow the zerg for about a second is a better idea then go for it.

Cuchullain.3104:

No kidding. I would never have realized this if you hadn’t repeated the obvious 20 times.

It wasn’t obvious to you, you asked the question.

All the “advice” here says that it is better to auto-nerf your dps than to take a chance retaliation may set you up for an easy kill, while ignoring my statement that I rarely die except to being swarmed by the zerg. Even without retaliation the circumstances of my death would usually be the same as with it. So retal is more of a dps issue for me than a survival one as I am very good at surviving. You have to be as a glass ranger on an outmanned server.

You just don’t like the advise. Stop beating about the bush, man up, and say you don’t agree. No one is going to be upset. People gave you advise. Pick and choose what works for you. If not, continue to get ravaged by retaliation by zerg or by solo encounters.

Beyond that, I have given examples of why the benefits of shooting at zergs with aoe often outweighs the outrageous cost. I’d like to see someone refute those examples with something other than insults and dubious claims to expertise.

And people have provided you countless examples of why that is a bad idea. Take it or leave it. That is your choice at the end of the day. Best of luck to you.

I still don’t understand what else you are doing with Barrage against a zerg other than tagging enemy players for yourself. Barrages get ignored by big groups completely

If you want loot/wxp, then yeah, it sucks.

If you want to help as much as you can in winning, then don’t pick piercing arrows, and don’t use barrage on melee train. With Eagle Eye and Read the Wind I never felt more useful in zerg – and I play ranger since headstart. You can pick squishies one by one, and even if you don’t kill them, the pressure you can constantly put on them (compared to thief who has hard time following if they run through AoE), makes them useless for their team. Thanks to huge range you can quickly and easily change targets to pressure multiple enemies at once – after all most of them will take some time before they notice you stopped focusing them for few seconds.