Guild Wars 2

I havent found many shortbow dedicated builds. I think that it does great dmg in WvWvW and PvE mobs because of its AoE, but I still havent found a straight build for the SB. Can one be made?

yeah but it mainly is with points in deadly arts to increase the damage of poison. there is also a 5% boost trait i think in critical strikes. so if you were to build for it i’d say make it poison build and use the poison venom, 30/20 and pick 20 points in one other tree

I use shortbow thief in sPvP, I went 30 in precision and crit chance, 20 in power and crit damage and 20 in vit and healing (not sure if its healing or not).

I went for more of a survivabilty build so i could take points and get out alive. I went for crit % and damage over condition for the SB #2 skill, which does 8k with crits, in an aoe.

It’s vit and boon duration.

That particular traitline should be gotten to at least 20, and maybe even higher, because if you’re using your shortbow, you’re probably dodging a lot to get away from attacks, so 10% extra damage when endurance not full is great.

Two builds possible I guess, one mainly focussed on the damage of abilities 1 & 2, speccing for the highest possible base damage.

The second focusses on the bleeding of abilities #2 and #4. Keep in mind poison doesn’t stack, so venoms are a bit useless if you use #4.

For the first I would go with the above mentioned power,crit, vit build. For the last I would go with crit, vit, condition damage, and put a bleeding on crit gem in your bow.