Guild Wars 2

IMO, the 4th and 5th skill of both longbow and shortbow should be switched.

Shortbow felt more like a hunter/sniper weapon than a longbow.

Why?

When an enemy is running away, shortbow got poison volley which will decrease their healing. Cripple shot will slow them down. Concussion shot will stun them if they run away. A ranger with a shortbow can chase down an enemy more easily than a Ranger with a longbow. If an enemy runs away, you already won.

Longbow 4th and 5th skill doesn’t feel right on the longbow. It doesn’t feel very hunter-like and doesn’t have a role.

If switched, the skirmisher with the shortbow will hit the side with barrage to mass cripple. If someone gets too close, the skirmisher will create the distance with point blank shot and get away with quick shot. The skirmisher could also sneak up from behind and use point blank shot to displace him off the cliff. Hit and run, that would be the shortbow’s job.

Longbow will be a different story. An enemy runs away -> Hunter shoots with concussion shot on the Longbow, the hunter can stun him to stop him. This gives him time to shoot a cripple shot to slow him down, then use hunter shot and rapid fire(with quickness) to take him down. Longbow could also be a backline sniper weapon, you support your friends by hitting key targets. Hunting down targets would be the longbow’s job.

Then again, I am not speaking in the point of balancing weapons or anything like that. I would like these 4th and 5th skill switch so that the shortbow feels more like a skirmisher weapon and the longbow feels more like a hunter weapon.

What if i told you that the shortbow is the hunter’s weapon and not the longbow?