Guild Wars 2

I’ve been attempting to make a truly useful build for both PvE and PvP but have yet to find one that makes me feel as useful as I am running say DPS or heal shouts.

Have any of you managed to find one that heavily uses longbow? It seems like focusing on conditions with perhaps dual swords/bow would be the optimal way, but doing so means having a low HP pool and chances are you won’t be doing as much chaos with your conditions than a necro or mes.

If you post a build please say whether it’s for PvE or PvP. Mostly likely PvE won’t be to bad, let’s have it focus on Dungeons as anything is viable while mapping.

Here’s an untested concept for PvP (Copy/Paste link)
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIAQNAscTjgO1w9OyQMxBCjifMkzjkMFynUcGzA;TsAg1Cqo8x4jwHrMOfkyssYEwsCA

Basic strategy would be to kite and gain adren with bow, immobilize, use burst, switch to swords, use signet, leap in, Frenzy, use burst+other skills, use bolas to make sure they stay in the combo field. This doesn’t make the conditions the focus and more like the icing on the cake.

Long Bows are kittening excellent when your team cooperates with their blast finishers. You can easily get 25 mights for 20s if they make use of the fire field.

Stack that with some banners and you’re good to go for PvE/ Dungeons.

0/0/30/30/0 is the primary build I use for dungeons. You can put the remaining 10 points in anything else.

Just make sure you grab the Banner traits that make them last longer, shorter CD, and grant regeneration.

ive found that being supportive heavily compromises any damage, unless you heavily/often use the longbow with its fire field and its finishers, im using this build currently:
http://www.gw2build.com/builds/ultimate-support-warrior-pve-dungeon-banner-5741.html – mainly for dungeons, as it gives banner regeneration, as oppose to shouts, but im assuming it would work in wvw or spvp too, as its fantastic for AOE, and decent for survivability.

you can use your longbow blast finisher (Arcing Arrow, slot 3) for mixing in AOE healing from the elementalists water field, or condit. removal from a necromancer, and i also use banners in the warriors fire field to add 3 stacks of AOE might per one put down (3 banners+Arcing Arrow = 12stacks), make a strong note however that using that build will heavily cripple your damage, im lucky to get over 2-3k crits at times, but im fully stacked with healing power

Longbows have some pretty great utility in group environments, but I believe they suffer from the same firing speed bug that plagues a lot of ranged weapons (excluding rifles for some reason) across professions. Namely, the #1 skill has a painfully slow recast for the damage it does, leading to subpar DPS in generalized combat situations.

Unfortunately, just like with the Ranger and Pistols on the Thief, it’s only useful in niche situations and is very suboptimal generally speaking. I hope this bug/design issue gets addressed soon.