Guild Wars 2

After the Cluster Bomb nerf, SB seems to be less viable in WvW, most of the times I can’t even reach my enemies when defending a tower, and that was one of the main reason of using it, at least it was for me.

Now I’m wondering, could P/P be a better choice than SB in WvW?

Even with the nerf Shortbow is still better than P/P. The auto-attack is much stronger and always bounce to 2 targets (and you will find them in WvW) without relying on a 50% chance to bounce once per bullet through a trait.

You can help your team, specially in a prep by triggering combo fields non-stop. If the odds aren’t favorable Shortbow offers more mobility than P/P and while this has been nerfed to the ground, you can still try to get some Lotus Poison aplications by throwing Chocking Gas in different points of the battle (but the nerf here hurts a lot).

P/P will be 3333333 at the same range than Shortbow, for little damage (the Shortbow at least will “tag” multiple targets). They need to rework that set completly to make it viable. I WANT to play it because I love the aesthetics, but it’s simply too bad.

Shortbow is unquestionably better in zergs even post-nerf. P/P still needs buffs to be good anywhere except against a single target in a prolonged fight.

i tried sb for all its worth yesterday in wvw again.. (and i made a dreamer ages ago bc i LOVE shortbow as it was FAIR and BALANCED even though anet is dum dums :P) but i could NOT make it work. just too short ranged to be able to say “yep i need that on my 2ndary weapon” . i mean yeah you can use it in 3 v 3 or less but thats not common enough to say this is worth taking. that range helped keep larger groups at bay. anet you fail. people are quitting :/ im close

Travlane.5948:

i tried sb for all its worth yesterday in wvw again.. (and i made a dreamer ages ago bc i LOVE shortbow as it was FAIR and BALANCED even though anet is dum dums :P) but i could NOT make it work. just too short ranged to be able to say “yep i need that on my 2ndary weapon” . i mean yeah you can use it in 3 v 3 or less but thats not common enough to say this is worth taking. that range helped keep larger groups at bay. anet you fail. people are quitting :/ im close

People are always quitting over changes. It is a cute threat but so few people actually follow through with it.

This change is so game breaking I haven’t even noticed it.