Guild Wars 2

After a bit of testing on a dummy, I have come to realize that shortbow and long bow ranges are all higher than their marked skill ranges. On a warrior without any range increasing traits, the longbow skills were hitting at about 1150 range, while my rifle was the normal 1200, This was also confirmed by having my friend AA with a shortbow on a ranger, compared to the AA of a guardian, both are listed at 1200 range, however my Ranger friend could hit from a pretty heafty distance away. (I am assuming close to 1500 range) where my guardian needed to be much closer. This seems to be from the actual arc of the arrow projectiles compared to the straight projectile path of others. (any skill that fired straight out without the arrow arc would not hit) I was wondering if this was a bug with the bow weapons, or if this was intentional. I tried searching the forums but came up with nothing on this subject.

your friend is using the trait that increases bow range on the ranger, which increases range to 1500.

@Slayer
re-read the OP

@Bash
Yes, some projectile-type attacks continue to travel further even after their range is passed.
This behavious doesn’t work on straight travelling projectiles (or beams) since they’d go unlimited than.