Guild Wars 2

actually i like running a ranged only build in wvw. I run 20/30/20/0/0. with high crit and cond damage. i wear the armor that gives pric/ tough/ cond. rune of ranger. and sigil of earth. i have about a 60 % crit chance 50% crit damage and about 1k cond damage. for skills i use RAO and QZ as well as well has healing spring. also my bows have pow prec and cond dmg or crit chance. you want to have a certain amount of base power so your multiplier is still good. so with the sigil of earth my SB bleads wether im flanking or not and bleeds double when flanking. SB is great for sustained damage and ground engagements. also poping a QZ/RAO even just using sb auto atack can nearly insta kill newbs. especially if you stun/cripple them first. Long bow is great for keep battles and sieges with barrage. also if you take the trait that gives you quickness on weapon swap you are set up for a deadly combo: first QZ/RAO on your longbow and hit barrage/ rapid fire = huge burst damage, then switch to SB for another burst and sustained fire.

Also there are other things to consider. for example I use Superior sigil of strength. In one burst of QZ on SB i can get up to 8 or so stacks of might so the last arrow is doing exponentially more damage then the first. without qz you can only maintain about 2. also if you hit a group with qz barrage and switch to sb. and or if you have piercing on your arrows. you can easily get a full stack of 24 might going. i cant do the math exactly but im pretty sure that is exponential growth of damage. not a linear x2.

This is fairly minor considering all the other things going on right now but i wanted to mention it because maybe someone has a fix or devs can work on it when they get to it. I have noticed that my mouse wheel only functions intermittently. one patch will go through and it will work great then after the next update it stops working. this leads me to believe that the problem is in the software not my computer.the reason i bring it up is that the mouse wheel ( zooming map and character camera) is an important part of game-play for me. not being able to zoom at will really hampers functionality and ease of navigation. if anyone has any ideas please let me know or let devs know to put it on their pile of things to work on. thanks.