Guild Wars 2

Mechanically it seems to be pretty well balanced, but I find it very annoying how rapidly the shots fire – both the sound effect and the visual are kind of grating. It’s also just inappropriate – nobody in their right mind would attempt to fire a bow that quickly. You’d sacrifice all control and precision in the process.

I would suggest slowing it down to where it’s only slightly faster than the Longbow’s autoattack and increasing the attack power and bleed duration to compensate.

You need to look at other things than just the damage from the attack. To name just a few examples, nerfing attack speed would also be a nerf when it comes to might stacking through Rampage as one and the Companion’s Might trait. Look around and you’ll find more examples.

one of the reasons that I like the short bow is for is quick fire rate, it great for proc’ing on hit/critical hit procs. you also get more hits on kiting targets.

It use to faster

I like putting on the wintersday slingshot skin and annoying people to death with the rubber band sound

It use to fire a lot faster. Then the “animation fix” nerf happened.

OP: It doesn’t need anymore nerf. Use a different weapon.

Einlanzer.1627:

Mechanically it seems to be pretty well balanced, but I find it very annoying how rapidly the shots fire – both the sound effect and the visual are kind of grating. It’s also just inappropriate – nobody in their right mind would attempt to fire a bow that quickly. You’d sacrifice all control and precision in the process.

I would suggest slowing it down to where it’s only slightly faster than the Longbow’s autoattack and increasing the attack power and bleed duration to compensate.

It’s actually a lost art, for the most part. Ancient archers used a technique where they would draw 3-5 arrows at a time and fire them in quick succession, 1 after another at about the same speed as the SB auto. I think the current world champion has some videos. Quite amazing. LB autoattack? Well, haha…. That puts a machine gun to shame.