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I’m a little tired of just using a bow for defensive purposes. This is geared way more to pvp than anything since pve its an aoe machine but really, I’m a little tired of the only real use for it is defending gates or evading/running away from people. Especially with the 1200 ranged nerf on cluster bomb to a measly 900 you can barely hit the ground from ontop of a wall let alone use it in a zerg v zerg fight. I think my bouncing auto hits do more dmg in total because people tend to just casually walk out of the way.
Maybe I’m doing it wrong but when you feel like ranging someone down for the hell of it the only real thing you can do is auto hit. If you’re chasing someone you can’t fire the cluster bomb ahead of them anymore, by the time it hits the ground you yourself are already about to pass the impact site so how would it even be possibly to hit an enemy slightly ahead of you running away? Sure you could shadowshot to them and hit them with an easy cluster but there goes all your initiative and whole point of dealing dmg from a distance. Sure you can also root someone out of stealth but what’s the point? Especially when there’s no way to get into stealth from the bow you’re sacrificing a 30-60 second cooldown just to get one 2 second immobilize that lets you what? safely land one cluster bomb? a regular attack? I’m sure most thieves won’t want to give up a 9k backstab for a 400 dmg quick root.
However I don’t think it’s out of place, it is geared more to be a utility weapon rather than a main choice but even one or two tiny aspects of possible offensive play would add more variety to the game. A bow seem’s like a much better choice for an assassination rather than a loud pistol, sniping your target from a rooftop then yeah maybe having bombs for those other situations. I’m not saying the bow is weak when I say it’s defensive. I’m not new to the game, I love using it to murder people who are chasing me and just get lured into constant clusters to the face but I’m more addressing a scenario when I’m the one doing the chasing.
Possibilities? Maybe make Surprise Shot (the shot from stealth) deal a hight burst instead, like a volley. You don’t have roughly any means of stealth on a shortbow so most likely you’d be burning cooldowns, it wouldn’t spammable. Just a quick volley of arrows to chase down or initiate a good jump. Something else but not that big of a deal but what about speeding up cluster bomb’s projectile? maybe with less arc? If they want to keep a short range maybe make it easier to actually hit people… not let someone casually walk out of the way. I dunno I just feel something new would be nice rather than having a weapon only for poofing yourself away to rush objectives or run from people… I dunno any thoughts? Would it be too imbalanced? It’s fine right now for a quick swap defensive weapon but I just feel it could be more being our only bow option.
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Awesome, just wanted to be sure, search box wasn’t working for me, that’s perfect.
Will we still be able to play through the previous stages during the first release of adventure box as well? For new players I’m sure they would love to experience the whole thing through beginning to end.
Honestly I agree, this is ridiculous. Hopefully this will spark another conflict in the story because yeah, there’s like no conflict anymore. Yeah there are little skirmishes here and there with sky pirates but… thats it really. Sure we don’t have to do the content we don’t like but then what does that mean then? The people who don’t like the living story get left behind. It’s either hop on or enjoy a world that will never change because we’re working on other content.
Being around the anniversary though you have to admit it’s not just random, it’s a celebration of the game’s origins itself which is fine, everyone does that. On the other hand they really should take an opportunity to make this segment of the living story link or transition into a larger conflict. I mean really, when it comes to Queen Jenna there’s always someone trying to kill her or end her regime lol But it’s too much, celebrations should be short and the real engaging content needs to last.
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Jeez why are so many people so sensitive?
God forbid the game try something new other than hack away at the ankles of a WINGED beast.
I support the idea of having some other degree of fighting done SEPARATELY from open world and thus being OPTIONAL to those it would appeal to but yes, guild wars has its own separate image with travel they’ve been successful with and we knew coming in, that core should never change, it’s its identity and what makes the world, imo, more engaging.
Adding new content and innovation is another story and fun fact about things being optional, you don’t like it you don’t have to do it. Meanwhile some of us actually like an mmo that offers variety, repetition or similarity gets boring no matter how you put it.
Anyone else visually get revealed when using an ability in stealth? For example using shadow step while stealthed then getting revealed? I know it’s just visual and you still retain the buff so to everyone else you’re still invisible so it’s a minor bug and annoyance that I’d like to get looked at. Thanks.
Honestly we got this far without expecting them so I’m preeetty sure we’ll survive without them. Now in terms of adding to the game rather than changing it, taking that next step, I honestly do think mounts should eventually be added in some way but of course NOT have anything to do with the open world or even WvW, the things we are already accustomed to. I’m sure they could throw in an OPTIONAL game mode/event/dungeon, maybe even a form of pvp because come on, its not the modern era, animals are used for war all the time, it’s not uncommon. There is no need to revamp how to move around the current world but there’s always room for adding content, different things to do or appeal to, that’s all.
This can be used in such a wrong way lol, just kiss her irl sheesh :P