Guild Wars 2

Everyone knows that the Longbow #1 shoots too slowly and that it’s probably a bug (the stated activation speed is almost half what the actual rate of fire is, which isn’t the case with most weapons).

Does anyone else feel like the Shortbow #1 fires too quickly, like to the point of being awkward? It kind of makes me not even want to use it just because it’s aesthetically weird. I know at one point it used to have a 1/2 second activation speed and fire as slowly as the Thief’s Shortbow #1, but it was breaking the set so they removed it. The result is that now, Crossfire has roughly 75% the power of Long Range Shot while firing about 300% faster, which is a lot of why the Shortbow very blatantly outperforms the Longbow.

That they cant’ seem to get autoattack speeds right after 9 months is very disconcerting to me. They need to do an across-the-board retuning of the way the activation speed interacts with animation speeds and the resulting attack rate of skills. Currently, some are too fast, most are too slow and consequently weaker than the should be.

IMO
LB- autoattack needs to cast at 1/2s
SB- autoattack damage needs a buff/do more damage the closer you are to the target but needs to cast at 1/4s

jpnova.4572:

IMO
LB- autoattack needs to cast at 1/2s
SB- autoattack damage needs a buff/do more damage the closer you are to the target but needs to cast at 1/4s

Perhaps. I am pretty sure the way it was intended was:

LB – same power as currently, 3/4 second refire (about 75% faster than now)
SB – same power as currently, 1/2 second refire (about 25% slower than now)

This is why the Shortbow is a solid performer (bordering on OP relative to other sets) while the Longbow is gimpy and very situational.

It’s really quite asinine that this hasn’t been looked at and fixed by now, and it isn’t just Ranger that’s affected. All ranged weapons across professions, with the exception of the Rifle (whose 3/4 second activation speed is very close to its actual rate of fire) are screwed up by it.