Guild Wars 2

I’m really enjoying using the short bow in WvW and was wondering how I can make it more effective. Right now I’m traited all in Acrobatics and Trickery (not quite 80) and I’m finding I’ve got good decent damage and great survivability but would like to eek a little bit more out of it… especially more damange

Any suggestions?

Unfortunately there are no good traits for the SB specifically. I’d suggest going 30 deep into critical strikes for furious retaliation and executioner which in turn help the SB deal more damage.

At least that’s what I do and my cluster bombs deal 4-6k damage against most players (it’ll deal around 1.5-3k dmg to bunker builds).

Would Deadly Arts give a similar return in straight up damage? Also, do the Cluster Bomb ticks get a chance to crit on their own or is it just the initial hit?

Deadly Arts would give you higher damage but don’t go neck deep in a trait tree if you aren’t going to utilize its traits, that’s what gear is for xD

CB ticks (I assume you mean the bleeds) don’t crit. If you mean will CB have a chance to crit for each person it hits…I’m not sure…that’s a very good question but from my experiences it seems that if CB crits everyone takes crit dmg in the blast radius.

As a thief CB is by far the easiest way to get badges of honor, sit on ramparts of your keep during a siege and blast enemies who are downed. Its very important to target the ones that are down for 2 reasons 1) so they don’t get back up and 2) because someone will always try to res the downed player (leading to more downs and thusly more kills).

Doing this trick I managed to farm 90 badges of honor in a 3.5hr period with 0/30/0/20/20 traits and power/tough/vit armor with berserker’s accessories.

Nice, thanks for tips. I may try maxing out Critical Strikes.. more damage is always good

stinkypants.8419:

I’m really enjoying using the short bow in WvW and was wondering how I can make it more effective. Right now I’m traited all in Acrobatics and Trickery (not quite 80) and I’m finding I’ve got good decent damage and great survivability but would like to eek a little bit more out of it… especially more damange

Any suggestions?

Deadly arts to 15 is a win. Your choking gas will now spread Weakness.

If you go Condition whit short bow , it will be impossible to kill bunkers because short bow damage base its not that big in the first place .Its survivability which makes it so strong .Now damage is a good idea.Since you’re going to evade most of the damage you don’t need to worry about defence so much ,just effective ways to regain initiative.Signet use is pretty sweet.And if thats not enough for you , you can go hybrid and go into Trickery tree and improve both your condition damage and initiative gain.Ima post a bit later those 2 builds I’m thinking about .1 advice tho , I don’t sugest you use shortbow against classes that are better at range than you like Rangers.Keep a melee weapon around too.

Thinking this now…

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fYUQFAFmQ2e0TVIPppQmAgOFXlVB

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stinkypants.8419:

Thinking this now…

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fYUQFAFmQ2e0TVIPppQmAgOFXlVB

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That build looks good if you’re going to focus on shortbow. You could put 5 points from DA in Acro for 10% extra damage. Just don’t forget to dodge now and then.