Guild Wars 2

can we get shortbow reverted to its old speed?

maybe reduce the bleed duration but it would be rlly awesome to have the old speed back, it’d make our sb aa a lot stronger than it is now.

atm, its O.K. with zerker, but the old speed would make it a lot more viable on more damaging power specs

reduced bleed duration but higher attack speed would allow us to still maintain the same amount of bleeds (most of the time) and would pretty much only make power builds stronger with sb

heck, I want it double of its original speed… check out the video below and you’ll see what I mean…

here’s my favorite video EVER of it in action (it isn’t mine, and it is also pre-quickness nerf, so even if they brought the attack speed back, it wouldn’t be as fast as this… although it would be amazing to have again, it was like a machine gun! :] pewpewpew!)

its freakin great amirite or amirite?? =D

if they brought it back, we’d be able to melt people as fast as thieves and warriors with the shortbow

zergs would actually want rangers who could play sb zerk well cuz we’d be able to destroy backline with this

watch the video, I know they’re mostly uplevels, but watch as he drops like 4 of them within a few seconds… this is how rangers should be! I don’t know why it was changed in the first place, remember guys, “unparalleled archers”… this is pretty unparalleled to me :]

lmao, I was looking at the old revisions of Crossfire for the sb on gw2wiki and at one point, someone edited the range to “pathetic” LOL this was right after the 1200 range nerf… too funny… too funny

pretty awesome, would play SB again for sure:D

Mayn. I’d like them to bring Zephyr’s Speed back to 5BM instead of the full 30

yeah, I was going to add that into my “Power to the Rangers!” thread once I have the time

The good old days :P unfortunately a ranger that’s good with a bow doesn’t seem to fit into the druid class they’re trying to turn us into.

The shortbow attack speed and distance nerf are what made me leave the game.

You block mobile on the video…

No view from there then!

Yeah… Looking back it it now its pretty obvious why they nerfed it lol.

zerk stats with a SB , nope no Machine gun for you. shortbow was always a Condi weapon of some type , even in gw1 i used a shortbow with preps to apply condis fast, it wasn’t realy used for damage, but could be built that way , and if it was most people would use a Recurve bow or somthing else.

I loved machine gun shortbow with the ranger elite that gives might to pet to get fast 25 stacks on my pet, one of my favourite nostalgia builds

We more likely to get them to have the current shortbow attack rate to properly interact with the current quickness, than see any backtracking on their part. What do you we, thieves/mesmers?

Oh mannnn I wish I hadn’t watched this video.

I used to LOVE playing machine gun SB pew pew full zerk with quickness and RaO.

At the time it didn’t feel OP, though then again that might have been because I was much worse at fighting other players than I am now, so I died a lot.

I don’t even remember the speed nerf to be honest, I definetly remember and miss the range after that got kitten d though

kiwituatara.6053:

Mayn. I’d like them to bring Zephyr’s Speed back to 5BM instead of the full 30

That would be really OP…

Atm with 30 in BM, we can have 15 seconds of quickness, which can be pretty kitten strong if you can CC your enemy.

like i just said in the profession balance forums….if they allow engis to shotgun their grenades then rangers should be able to machine gun their bows!

solrik.6028:

kiwituatara.6053:

Mayn. I’d like them to bring Zephyr’s Speed back to 5BM instead of the full 30

That would be really OP…

Atm with 30 in BM, we can have 15 seconds of quickness, which can be pretty kitten strong if you can CC your enemy.

This… Y U no run quickness on petswap community?!

im a trapper =( we dont get the luxury of quickness on petswap

Well yeah, it sucks that you need an elite to apply proper conditions with traps. Would be nice though with all them fields and such… for single target it actually could be better to use combos instead of planning on kiting opponents in the trap. Give it a try. Something like 0/2/6/0/6 with runes of strength. Your pet will hit pretty hard if you can cc your opponents. In wvw with I can stack 20 might with companion’s might and ghost pepper poppers on my owl. Hits fir 2700*2 with F2. And wolf knockdown on weaponswap (with quickness), followed by its other hard hitting skill…. yeah its something like a 3k crit for each of those.