Guild Wars 2

It sure seems like rifle doesnt shoot as far as other weapons that have 1200 range. Ive noticed this mainly in WvW where staff eles and mesmers (both 1200 range) seem to outrange me. I tested this by taking a rifle and a longbow (stronger bowstrings trait) to the sPvP golem dummies. I took a few auto attacks with rifle and stepped further away until it was out of range. In the same manner, I took the traited longbow and fired its auto attacks. Both of the skills supposedly have 1200 range so I assumed it would start missing at the same spot. But lo and behold, I was able to step SIGNIFICANTLY further back with the longbow before it was out of range.

Has anyone else had this problem? Is it a glitch?

Its also interesting to note that the longbow’s 3 and F1 skills appear to have the same range as the rifle.

Bullets seem to just go for their exact range and disappear, arrows keep going for a bit, sort of like how you can still melee things when the auto-attack gives up on the edge of range.