Guild Wars 2

so does anyone think Anet will make LB even remotely viable in tPvP eventually? or is it doomed like what seems like half of the warriors so called arsenal of weapons?

What would it take to make longbow “viable in sPvP”? It must have stronger nukes? It should be equivalent to a 1200 long ranged Hundred Blades?

Instead of pipe dreams, let’s look at what longbow does have, currently. It has surprisingly strong AoE nukes with arcing arrow and fan of fire. The adrenaline skill combustive shot is the hardest-hitting adrenaline skill if the target stays in the AoE for the whole duration.

The main issue with longbow is the cooldowns. Arcing arrow, though it is a strong AoE nuke, is equivalent to one cluster bomb from a thief. While arcing arrow has a lengthy 10 second cooldown, cluster bomb has a 0 second cooldown. Zero. Second. Cooldown.

Though the longbow has some theoretically good utility like the blind from smoldering arrow, it is held back by a sluggish 15 second cooldown. The same goes for the immobilize skill pin down. This leaves the player with spamming the #1 skill dual shot majority of the time.

Because there are no traits that reduces the cooldown on longbow skills, we are left with a potentially powerful AoE nuking weapon that is instead bogged down with slow, sluggish cooldowns.

umm no, why would you assume that i wanted a long ranged 100B? i hate the 100B spec fyi and only a noobish moron would think making a long ranged version of it would be the right answer to fixing LB.

you are right and thats exactly what i mean in this thread, its underpowered and needs to be buffed, reducing the CDs would be a wonderful buff.

Arcing arrow has too long of a cast time and flight time as a projectile to be useful in sPvP. Once people see you charging that, they have ample time to either run out of the area or roll right before it hits. The entire kit is not good for PvP; only lb5 will really help you kite.

If you badly want ranged in spvp go for rifle (i don’t think its that good either though). If your gonna play a ranged class you need to be able to kite, and rifle has a much more spamable cripple compared to bows immobilize (cd wise), has a knockback and volley can be used on the move.

im not “looking for ranged” as a warrior, im looking for node support and if the CDs for LB would be shorter or if the damage would be worth the CDs and waste of a weapon slot it would be great for node support.

rifle in tourneys is near to useless, mediocre damage thats easily avoided and very little kiting ability (without bolas that is, which is an incredibly “moody” utility anyway :P).