Guild Wars 2

Does the AH healing proc from the bow burst first time landing on the ground, or does it proc from just having the enemy stand in the circle even after they dodged the initial impact?

Just wondering if there is any difference between a vanilla warrior bow burst and a berserker primal bow burst in terms of how and when it procs AH healing.

Thanks!

When it hits the ground, with no target needed. Now, if there is a target and they manage to reflect it, you won’t get AH at all (and will take damage). No difference between primal and vanilla in that regard, afaik.

Choppy.4183:

When it hits the ground, with no target needed. Now, if there is a target and they manage to reflect it, you won’t get AH at all (and will take damage). No difference between primal and vanilla in that regard, afaik.

Wow that sounds fantastic. Wouldnt this make bow the meta weapon for warriors? Even for power warriors i think it would work! AH healing that is extremely hard to negate.

As far as I remember, the bow has always been meta for the warrior in PvP, since Cleansing Ire has been introduced: hambow, axebow, shoutbow, macebow… When they’ll allow to equip two weapons of the same type, each with their own CD, we’ll probably be plagued with BowBow

I’ve played GS/Bow on a vanilla power warrior (Strength, Defense, Discipline), it lets you maintain Berserker’s power and Adrenal Health at max level. Big damage, big sustain, ranged and AoE pressure make it a good fighter – but no blocks and few stun breakers still make it vulnerable. It’s fun to play.

While the bow nearly guarantees all F1-procs – unless your projectile gets blocked, destroyed or reflected – there are some other bursts that are not bad at all in that regard. Arc Divider, for instance, has a large radius. It is one of the reasons (with Headbutt and Eternal Champion, and to a lesser extent Outrage) people tend to prefer Berserker to Strength for a power warrior.

Adrenal Health works by stacks. You can build it progressively during the fight (1+1+1, 1+2, 2+1, 3). In other words, as long as you burst as often as you can and do not wait for 3 bars of adrenaline, you can have it maxed quite quickly. Those playing Berserker have a big constraint though: Berserker requires you to build 3 bars before being activated (then each berserker burst is equivalent to a 3-bars burst), so you cannot burst as you like. Fortunately, some skills/traits help you gain adrenaline fast (e.g. Headbutt).

EremiteAngel.9765:

Wow that sounds fantastic. Wouldnt this make bow the meta weapon for warriors? Even for power warriors i think it would work! AH healing that is extremely hard to negate.

As noted by Elegie, bow has been a meta weapon for a long time (in pvp) due in part to how it interacts with burst on-hit traits (e.g. Cleansing Ire), but more for might stacking and aoe.

As for power, I’ve sometimes use it as a wvw roamer but it isn’t optimal. It’s main strength is that a lot of people don’t understand what I’m doing with it so they don’t counter it well

You can do good close range aoe damage with a power lb/gs, but it lacks mobility (no movement skills and it doesn’t work with Warrior Sprint), it has no block and limited damage mitigation, and its attacks are very slow. That isn’t offset by the ability to gain AH (and CI, etc) on demand because it’s not that hard to land a burst with other weapons, especially as a Berserker.

It’s a good weapon for a fire condi build though.

LB has been meta since Cleansing Ire was introduced as mentioned above, however, GS berserker burst (Arc Divider) is a pretty big range fast hitting skill that in a team fight will always hit something. If you have sigils of leeching and hydromancy on your GS, It will automatically clear any blinds you have on you so making Arc Divider have better chance of landing.

I haven’t use LB in a long time because I don’t enjoy playing condi war and the damage is actually pretty mediocre.