Guild Wars 2

“With Marksmanship’s new Read the Wind, your longbow arrows will fire at twice their base velocity, allowing for supreme accuracy at long range.”

Soo what’s the purpose of short bow now that long bows speed is increased x_x?

Wolfey.3407:

“With Marksmanship’s new Read the Wind, your longbow arrows will fire at twice their base velocity, allowing for supreme accuracy at long range.”

Soo what’s the purpose of short bow now that long bows speed is increased x_x?

Arrow speed not firing speed. And it’s still a scrappy GM trait.

Short bow is not hurt by Longbow getting a Grandmaster Trait that trys to make the weapon useable, positioned to compete for space with other key longbow traits…

I still have trouble justifying the use of longbow half the time :/

I still find shortbow a better weapon for roaming even as a power build, and lawl at ranger + zerg.

Even if LB gets a speed buff making it as fast kitten auto attack, SB still has a bleed on its auto attack, and several CD abilities attached to its interrupts and escapes. SB will always be the bow of choice for PvP and WvW.