Guild Wars 2

Just curious to know what people think about adding shortbows to the new Ankle Shots trait. Would it be too much? Does the shortbow need it? Or would it just make Achilles cry? :-P

I don’t think the shortbow really needs it, although it would be a nice but small way to buff it. Mind you, an extra 10% damage off a cluster bomb is quite a bit. However, they could easily just add the cripple portion to it and not the damage portion (at least it’s easy in a conceptual sense).

However, I believe the thief shortbow is the only weapon in the game that doesn’t have an associated trait with it. It’d be nice to see it at least get something, so someone wanting to specialize in shortbow as a thief could do it, to an extent. Not having a trait for it just pushes it further into the “utility weapon” niche, which is kind of unfortunate. But that’s just kind of how it’s designed, I guess.

As for the 10% bonus damage on Cluster Bomb, we would have to give up the ferocity in the new Practiced Tolerance trait, and it would only affect crippled enemies. The main addition would be the actual chance to cripple. I suppose it would help to counter the loss of Ricochet, even though it’s on a different weapon. Besides, I already feel like I’m shooting spitwads instead of arrows.

Oh, and the Harpoon Gun got rolled into Ankle Shots from Power Shots. It seems the Shortbow has been left out. Why not just roll it in also?

Shortbow #3 already cripples as far as I know. So the 10% damage increase would be an overkill as it’s basically permanent for shortbow.