Guild Wars 2

As many of you know, ever since that “animation fix” to the shortbow that decreased its attack speed it never received the full effect of 100% quickness. I was wondering if this change to quickness, reducing it to 50% attack speed, would fix this glitch so I headed to test it.

For the testing I attacked the training dummies in lions arch normally then using time warp. Here’s what I came out with:

Without quickness:
- 100 shots takes 52 seconds, so 0.52 seconds a shot. Nothing different here.
- You get around 9.6 shots in 5 seconds with this.

With quickness:
I got around 12.5 shots in per 5 seconds (2.5 a second).

In conclusion:
Quickness will give you around 31% faster attack speed when using the shortbow, not 50%.

Ufff. I feel 5 seconds is too short to get an accurate estimation for the firing rate with quickness. Is there anyway you can find two mesmer buddies for a 20-25s quickness?

Good idea, that should provide a more accurate number. I’ll see if I can get some people to help.

Edit: updated OP with results

I recorded quickness frame-by-frame and observed 8 attacks in ~3.17 seconds. (I wanted to be sure all 8 shots were fully within the quickness window.) That’s ~2.52 attacks per second, which, compared to 1.92 attacks per second without quickness, is a gain of 0.6 attacks per second.

Before today’s patch, quickness increased the shortbow attacks by 1.2 attacks per second, so while it’s true we’re not getting the advertised 50% increase to attack rate during quickness, we are getting half of what we were getting before.

Tibbel.3450:

I recorded quickness frame-by-frame and observed 8 attacks in ~3.17 seconds. (I wanted to be sure all 8 shots were fully within the quickness window.) That’s ~2.52 attacks per second, which, compared to 1.92 attacks per second without quickness, is a gain of 0.6 attacks per second.

Before today’s patch, quickness increased the shortbow attacks by 1.2 attacks per second, so while it’s true we’re not getting the advertised 50% increase to attack rate during quickness, we are getting half of what we were getting before.

That’s interesting, receiving exactly half of what it used to despite this update. I always thought it was a bug but this makes me wonder if they intentionally cut the benefit crossfire receives from quickness by half.

Bri.8354:

That’s interesting, receiving exactly half of what it used to despite this update. I always thought it was a bug but this makes me wonder if they intentionally cut the benefit crossfire receives from quickness by half.

Well they cut the benefit everything receives from quickness by half in this patch. It’s just that before we were only getting a 62% increased shortbow attack rate under quickness, and now we’re getting 31% (by my numbers).

The “fun” of the class is totally gone with this change. I’m not even talking about DMG numbers. The class feels boring slow and totally kittenty now. GG.