Guild Wars 2

Exactly like the “Araneae” Longbow Skin. When you have the weapon ‘stowed’ it looks as it should do, facing the right way when it sits on your back.

However, when you ‘wield’ the weapon, it is inverted! The texture needs to be reversed.

As someone pointed out to me, all bows are actually “inverted” this way but as the models/skins are symetrical you don’t notice the effect.

you wield the bow on the left hand….

All bows are backward in the preview window like that, for some reason.

Its strictly a preview bug. The model faces the correct direction when you actually wield the weapon in-game.

As Zilyan said, I believe its because when you actually wield a bow in-game you hold it in your left hand, but the preview window puts it in the right hand, because that’s just how the previews work (every weapon is placed in the right hand, even offhand weapons which are always on the left in-game). So the bow faces the direction it should be facing wielded in-game (on the left). If you imagine the bow being moved to the left side of your character then its facing the right direction when held on that side.