Guild Wars 2

Folks, I’ve been away from GW2 since the drama over the release of the Xpack. We learned back then that ricochet was being taken out of the game which killed my favorite P/P build. Those two things pretty much were the events which caused me to go play AA instead.

Since the time that’s passed, has there been any word if ricochet will be restored? Has there been any significant improvement to the P/P gameplay to make it more viable?

Thanks!

Nope. People still begging for it including myself. They didn’t like it cuz it destroyed the purity of pistols, whatever that means. They did go ahead and give Warrior Rifles a 1hit kill AoE though so whatever it means I’m pretty sure they don’t believe their own excuse.

Unload and Body shot got dmg buffs. They know p/p needs work, and hopefully would agree the entire profession “needs work” as well. I would assume ricochet would be brought back somehow, MAYBE AS A TRAIT WITH 300 RANGE INCREASE?! Maybe NOT have the Thief as the ONLY non-1200+ range profession?!

Otherwise no, no word on ricochet. So for now, the best ranged AOE you’ll have for the foreseeable future is your Shortbow.

The reason it was so amazing (for me) was that it could be used so well in both PvP and PvE. All that AoE damage made the build, as limited as it was, a decent damage dealer and pretty darn fun to play, nevermind the RP aspects…

It’s sad to see that they don’t listed to the players as I’ve not heard any thief asking for it to be removed.

The new Unhindered Combat works very well with p/p allowing you to move around the field and get your unloads off. With vital shot damage increased you can use that when you in regen ini mode.

The set still needs work. Traits like Ankle shots actualy weaker now given the hidden range removed. Sundering strikes would be an option if the number of vuln stacks boosted. The Number 2 body shot is the one they really got to look at. If they fix that and work on allowing three shots per sec off the AA it might be there.

I do miss ricochet but have doubts we will see it again.

I really want ricochet and opportunist back.

Ricochet doesn’t need to come back. Since the changes, p/p has been pushed towards heavy single target damage at range. Especially after the damage buffs of ~25% to the auto and Unload, p/p hits hard.

A particular thing to mention is that with the Daredevil elite spec, you have the option of having a dodge with a leap finisher. You can combine that with Pistol 5 for on-demand stealth. Condi p/p could definitely replace p/d, and that should mean you can create some interesting hybrid and Celestial p/p builds.
Something like this could be very interesting.

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