Guild Wars 2

So I’ve been trying alot of different builds to main a shortbow for a while and this one is pretty fun and I thought I’d share it for anyone who wants to have a little bit of fun

It gives ALOT of regen so your health is gonna be up almost all of the time, and a lot of endurance for dodging. And with this build its more about the traits and runes so you can tweak your gear for a level of survivability you want

20 shadow arts – II shadow pulse, vii power shots
30 acrobatics – III vigorous recovery, viii pain response, x assassins reward
20 trickery – v thrill of the crime, vii bountiful theft

Withdraw, roll for initiative, other 2 and elite is optional but I run with shadow refuge shadow step and bas venom

Food – bowl of orrian truffle and meat stew, which gives 100% chance to gain might on dodge and 40 % endurance regen

2 shortbows with sigil of energy and 6 runes of dwayna

For gears like I said before its whatever you want your survivability level to be around. I currently run with p/v/t armor and berserker amulet, trinkets and bows, but I’ve ran with cleric weapons and armor for the healing power and toughness.

With this build you dodge nonstop with all the endurance regen from sigils on weapon swap, everytime you heal for vigor,and food buff. There’s also the evade from disabling shot and infiltrators arrow to shadow step around with the blindness to kitten them off even more. And you can kite also with the bow to compliment all the dodging and evading.

Ontop of all the evading, your gonna have alot of health regen from shadow pulse, pain response, shadows reward , a heal every 15 seconds which also gives you regen from the runes and 5% chance for regen on hit also from runes

If anyone tries it lemme know what you think

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Vid of gameplay would be awesome – it’s too radical for me to try it out of the blue without seeing it work

you do realize that +40% endurance from food doesn’t stack with vigor, which you should have up permanently from bountiful theft and vigor on heal. If you’re going to make a build you should test these things.

I’m not sure how optimal regen with evades are but if you want to focus on regen you should be taking mango pie

faeyd – i wish i can record on my comp with gw2 running, but my comp cant handle it and the quality comes out like crap

hacker – i actually tested it out to see but in the end, you dont have permanent vigor because your not gonna spam heal for just for vigor, even if the cd is on 15 sec cd, im saving the heal more for a heal and evade, and same thing with steal, im not gonna cast steal every chance i get, gotta wait for a good time to use that also and for mango pies, ive thought of a food buff for health regen per sec, but i noticed i had plenty of regen already, so i thought id go for the might since im dodging nonstop with the extra endurance regen for when my vigor isnt up.

Interesting build, I was about to do something similar since I love ShortBow so much.

Curious what you would use as a seconadary weapon set and why? How and when would you switch out?

I like the Venom build better. Four Venoms to apply and you can use your #1 weapon skill to apply them. Just hang back behind the crowd, share your venoms, and get healing at the same time. Ultimate support thief and utilizing the range of the shortbow at the same time.

I was going to say the same thing about venoms (especially since you initially didn’t even lay out any utility skills besides withdraw heal). I like this idea about the healing/tanky shortbow thief, but I think taking your points out of say, trickery, and putting them into DA for venoms and the heals off venoms might pay off more for healing. Then you can spam cluster and auto attack for spreading them and still heal through assassins reward…and continue with the rest of your dodge and heal ideas for the build.

So maybe something like this:
20 DA – IV VIII
30 SA – II IX XII
20 Ac – III X

Or…
30 SA – II IX XII
20 Ac – II X
20 Tr – V VII
And you just get a little longer cd on venoms but more initiative and useful steal.

Then Withdraw with all util slots venoms or roll for initiative and rest venoms for more spamming of cluster bombs and what not.

Same gear choices as you: PVT or clerics, and keep the energy sigils…Thoughts?

Spacecowboy – I just use 2 shortbows and swap continuously for the endurance, but I’ve tried it with dd for death blossoms evade and the ability to stealth and it works also

And for the venoms, I have incorporated it into the build also, but con with this build is HEAVY condition to the point when you just can’t outheal it, that’s why I use shadow step for condition removal and movement and shadow refuge as my oh crap reset button. So I prefer so use that for my utilities and go for the trickery line for extra boons