Guild Wars 2

Currently the ranger’s long bow arrows will go 1800 units with the Eagle Eye trait, even though the 1500 units is still in the description the arrow will still travel up to 1800 units. The attached photo is a picture of this. What if the arrow doesn’t fade away after 1800 and goes until it hits the ground? Rangers couldn’t relay on the targeting system because, the system doesn’t recognize the the arc in the arrow. With out targeting, the ranger would have to pin the camera accordingly to the arc of the the arrow in order to hit the given target. The ranger would also have to aim in front of the given target if it was moving.

In my opinion this wont make the class “over powered” because hitting the target would be difficult but more awarding for the skilled. This would already add to the class to make it even more enjoyable to play.

By the way do you know that lately I saw a few elementalists reach ballistas and canons with their1200 range skill (I think it was fireball) which I wasn’t able to reach with my 1500 range longbow until I positioned myself perfectly?
I know our longbow can shoot further when you shoot down from a hill but on even ground I thought it was 1500 range. If not that fireball would have even more range which would be ridiculous.
To answer your question. The devs once stated that they won’t give more range to the longbow because it could be gamebreaking with some mechanics in the game.

FB sometimes can hit things we can’t, because it’s aoe.

they should let us aim the LB that would be awesome because its currently almost impossible to hit a moving target because our toons who are supposed to be masters of ranged combat dont know how to lead a moving target unless they’re 5ft away

Just try strafing while shooting. After all the projectile speed boosts, it’s really easy (compared to few months ago) to hit targets at 1000+