Guild Wars 2

I was wandering what exactly the role of the shortbow is. I always thought of it as a medium range condi weapon. However the 2 skill suggest to use it more in a close range situation. Since a lot of it’s damage lies in the skill 2 it basicly wants you to stick to the enemy. Same as with the axe.
Axe/torch is also a short range condi weapon but outperforms the sb damage wise a lot. I know the sb has more defensive stuff on it but the damage difference is just huge.

I am mostly a pve player an have no idea why you should pick the shortbow there the axe/torch is just plain better in pve. Am I missing something? A suggestion from me would be to differentiate the sb and axe/torch more by changing the shortbow 2 to be a more medium range attack and thus giving the ranger acces to a prober ranged condi weapon.

What do you think about the role of the shortbow and where it should be?

Is it just me or does Quick draw not work on dagger 3?

Maybe at some point there will be an awesome specialisation that adds something like epic pets as a mechanic. I would love to have a hydra as pet, but it would have to be as strong as it looks. With the current pet mechanic that would break the game. However if there would be a specialisation build around this with a disadvantage to it like no pet swap or something similar that would make it harder to keep the pet alive the whole time it might work.

Yes! Even tho their abilities seem to be copies of the fire drake they look far better than the sand lion. I also liked the fire stalkers (I hope they are called like that in englisch) east to the omiramba-sandsee. They would be very nice pets. The sand lion doesn’t seem that interesting to me visually and ability wise. If it would have at least the sandstorm ability the wild ones have that would be nice. (Maybe a little bit op)

Did someone report this already?