Guild Wars 2

Long Range Shot: Increased the damage at the less-than-500 range by 20%. Increased the damage at the 500 to 1000 range by 15%.

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so ummm short bow is a thief only weapon … sigh hate my life … i hate it sooo bad =[

Ok now that i have contemplated suicide can someone give me reasons on why short bow is even viable at all …. I’m literally depressed ive had my Dreamer since sep. of last year and ever since i feel like anet has just turned this weapon into a thief viable weapon and im super bumed about it so can anyone please shine some light on a good build that isn’t kitten on by long bow … or should i just make kudzu and kill my self.

sorry for my bad grammar, punctuation etc… but at this point i don’t even care lol.

HELP!

No, it makes LB the power weapon. Short bow has always been a DPS condition weapon.

Shortbow’s damage is still higher than Longbow short range. I’d also argue that the Shortbow’s skills are a little more valuable for roaming. But please don’t forget that Shortbow was supposed to be our condi weapon. It’s probably the closest we have to a full condi weapon where axe is more of a hybrid weapon.

The issue has always been that longbow is to easy to counter because there are more ways for melee to get in range and stay there then there are ways for ranged classes to get at range and stay there. So longbow was only really ever used at the mid and short range outside of a zerg/tower setting and the shortbow was a significantly better power weapon than a purely power based weapon despite being first and foremost, a condi weapon.

It still has its place, but the fact that longbow now competes in damage and mid range really isn’t the turning point for shortbow. It was when they reduced its range to 900 and it became so similar to axe.