Guild Wars 2

I was thinking if it would be worth using P/P instead of SB on single bosses like the anomaly or chaos end boss in FOTM for example. I only ask for range purposes when I have to retreat but still need to do damage.

p/p has way bigger damage than shortbow, also it works much better with quickness since p/p abilities dont have hours of aftercast unlike sb

if you find yourself absolutely having to kite p/p is a much better choice than sb, although i prefer to do the bosses you mentioned with melee weapons since even p/p is nowhere close in dps to main hand dagger

The 2 mentioned bosses are ones you sometimes can’t get close to. Anomaly has those “instadeath” pools and the gladiator is running around the static fields. I remember those bosses well since my 1st time in Chaos Fractal was a disaster. xD

Yannir.4132:

The 2 mentioned bosses are ones you sometimes can’t get close to. Anomaly has those “instadeath” pools and the gladiator is running around the static fields. I remember those bosses well since my 1st time in Chaos Fractal was a disaster. xD

its very easy to stay in melee range of anomaly until the 2nd phase, during the 2nd phase you can continue to melee just should be always ready to teleport to a safe platform when platforms around you begin to collapse

gladiator is even easier to melee, in fact if you take aggro first and will always stay in melee range it wont even start running around

If you need to attack something from range and you don’t need aoe then p/p is a lot better. If you need more mobility and aoe then sb could be the better choice

But melee either dagger or staff will outdps pistol and sb by a mile

Thanks for the advice, yeah those bosses I listed as an example but would apply throughout the world for any other enemy that you couldn’t melee all the time. I know P/P doesn’t get much praise these days so I thought I would ask first before going with it.

Lexander.4579:

Yannir.4132:

The 2 mentioned bosses are ones you sometimes can’t get close to. Anomaly has those “instadeath” pools and the gladiator is running around the static fields. I remember those bosses well since my 1st time in Chaos Fractal was a disaster. xD

its very easy to stay in melee range of anomaly until the 2nd phase, during the 2nd phase you can continue to melee just should be always ready to teleport to a safe platform when platforms around you begin to collapse

gladiator is even easier to melee, in fact if you take aggro first and will always stay in melee range it wont even start running around

Nice to know. Maybe that’s why it was such a disaster. That’s what you get running with pugs.

Anomaly reflects ranged attacks when it spins, btw, be way of that if playing squishy and spamming unload.