Guild Wars 2

Hi, warrior experts!

I recently started a warrior character for those times when I need to rest my fingers from playing the elementalist, and yesterday something occurred that I have a question about.

My lvl 14 warrior critted an NPC for ~2100 damage with bow #3.

Now I expected warrior to have a higher damage output simply because warrior skills are more focused, but 2000 damage is something I count as a good crit autoattack on my lvl 80 elementalist.

Is this a bug, or can I expect to be able to nuke people in WvW with bow when I pop frenzy on the wall and unload everything I got on someone?
Sadly I don’t have a screenshot, but I assure you that I checked the log thoroughly so the number is real.

Opinions?

Bow isn’t exactly your go-to for ranged megadamages, Arcing hits for 7k for me.
I use bow a lot but what I do is throw Combustive shot and Arcing in the mobs, then jump in and deal melee DPS so it all sums up to about supermegahyperdamage in the end.

If you want just raw ranged DPS go with Rifle and dont forget your sigil of rage.
Volley+Killshot can easily crit for 25k total dmg on mobs lined up, auto hits for 1.2-1.4k+bleeds too.

Warrior is a class that has a weapon for every situation.
Need AoE DPS? Bow, dual Axe.
Need control? Hammer, Mace.
Need single target ranged domoges? Rifle.
Need mobility and burst? GS it is.
Need immob, mobility and contidions? Swords it is.

You can’t expect to own a single weapon and rule all Tyria.
You can be one of those Warriors running 3 fractals with GS alone or you could use the best weapon for each situation.
I have a whole bag just for my weapon swaps lol.

Yeah, I do that too.
What I had in mind is, judging on reaction times of people sieging keeps and towers when I start blasting them with staff from the walls, as a warrior I could go with Bow/Rifle with Improved Bowstrings, pop frenzy and unload bow for high AoE burst, then switch to rifle and ruin someone’s day, duck back in when they start to return fire.

Could be interesting. With that much potential damage, I am surprised more warriors are not using such combos when sieging/defending. Use it the other way around, frenzy, killshot/volley to down a squishy, then bow AoE on top of them to finish them off and possibly down anyone trying to rezz them.

For some reason I barely ever see warriors using bows in sieges. And when they do use them, they are not very good with them.

Longbow is invaluable for hitting defenders/siege up on walls in WvW.

Gaudrath.6725:

Yeah, I do that too.
What I had in mind is, judging on reaction times of people sieging keeps and towers when I start blasting them with staff from the walls, as a warrior I could go with Bow/Rifle with Improved Bowstrings, pop frenzy and unload bow for high AoE burst, then switch to rifle and ruin someone’s day, duck back in when they start to return fire.

Could be interesting. With that much potential damage, I am surprised more warriors are not using such combos when sieging/defending. Use it the other way around, frenzy, killshot/volley to down a squishy, then bow AoE on top of them to finish them off and possibly down anyone trying to rezz them.

For some reason I barely ever see warriors using bows in sieges. And when they do use them, they are not very good with them.

Well LB isn’t really that strong in terms of burst.
Combustive pulses about 1.5-2k dmg every 2s for 10s, Arcing is 7k and then you’re done for the next 10s.
You’re hardly killing someone with this, but it’s indeed a nice 10k AoE burst on walls.
When you are defending walls it’s much better to use death from above (trait) and knock them out continuously, it also knocks people off siege (i.e. rams they might be using on doors).

Or you could frenzy a 100b into a group for 20k damage, now that’s burst… if you can set it up that is.

Well with elementalist you’re not going to be killing many people with staff either, but AoE is used to shatter groups and set up for burst… eles lack in follow up burst skills with staff, but man, that 10k AoE should create a lot of nice opportunities for the rifle…

I thought about wall-bombing with Death from Above + a couple of Reckless Dodges for good measure… though I suppose I get no “nyah-hah-hah” get out of jail free card as with elementalist if I get snared and bursted down.

Bah, I know leveling isn’t exactly slow in this game, but it sure seems slow, “only” 65 levels to go…

LB in groups of people will do more DPS than a rifle. The number 3 and F1 gives a very nice combination of AoE burst and AoE sustained damage over time.

The rifle has 3 damaging moves and that is volley, and its auto attack (it does ok damage) and kill shot. Best case in WvW you are piercing through 3 people with the rifle (and that is best case i say). The longbow makes up for its slower auto-attack speed with stronger auto-attacks as well. It has nice CC as well with its #5 immobilize and its blinding shot.

If you trait into it your longbow will do 10% more dmg to burning foes, which is awesome.