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xcount – Not sure what you’re getting at. It might come as a shocking revelation but all the professions can use both melee and ranged weapons so what are you trying to say? This topic is discussing the viability of using a longbow on a warrior compared to using it on the ranger, since you know, the ranger can also use a longbow. I understand the war longbow is more AoE focused but I just wanted to hear what other Warriors have experienced when using the longbow and a generally more ranged focused Warrior setup since there are conflicting views on it’s usefulness going around. Thanks though, I’ll keep in mind that a Warrior is a Warrior and a Ranger is a Ranger, all this time I was thinking a Warrior was a Mesmer and a Ranger was an Asura. Silly me.
Thanks for your replies guys, interesting to read your experiences. Think I need to try out axe/axe or axe/sword as my melee everyone seems to praise especially the axe a lot! I do enjoy the greatsword though.
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Soylent – the range increase trait is one of the first things I’m gona get.
Nargaroth – I don’t think there’s any ‘problem’ with them, I just personally prefer to be dealing all the damage than managing a pet that does some of it for me. I enjoy the pet with my ranger whilst leveling it’s great tanking mobs for me, reviving me etc. but in wvwvw it turns into somewhat of a liability IMO just running around and getting killed pretty fast. I just like the idea of playing a ‘ranger’ without a pet and especially with wvw traited properly for the increased distance, the longbow warrior has some great AoE skills.
Thanks for the reply bamfbear! As I said I love longbow in wvwvw and have played a bit of warrior with longbow and it seems great. I also am enjoying longbow for pve questing too because of all of it’s utility it offers vs. the rifle. i have been using rifle and axe/axe or axe/horn in spvp (not sure my melee choice is the best but both feels pretty nice), the rifle is definitely great in spvp as you said.
Just to confirm, unlike with the ranger, your damage with bow doesn’t decrease the closer you are, does it?!
The more I play warrior, the more I am leaning towards it over my ranger. No pet, heavy armor, no damage reduction if you aren’t at max range (i think!), more weapon choices (dual swords and rifles!!)
Not sure what to say to that. The Warrior can use longbows AND rifles in-case you weren’t aware. No class is ‘fully melee’ the guardian being the “most melee” in terms of the number of ranged weapons it can use. There shouldn’t be any reason why you can’t play a ‘ranged warrior’ as effectively as a ranger.
Thanks for your response.
Yeah, I get the impression that ranged>melee in PvP even more so than the standard MMO here too. The AoE on the longbow generally seems to be great for WvWvW when traited to the increased distance and what not.
I hear it isn’t viable to run rifle/longbow build, but especially in WvW I don’t personally see why not depending on your playstyle of course.
I have been playing ranger for a new alt/maybe even main and enjoying it, but I don’t particularly like the pet mechanic. The warriors flexibility of weapons is greatly appealing, along with the fact that I seem to be enjoying their utility skills available and heavy armor is a bonus.
My question goes out to you warriors who do a lot of ranged combat. I don’t want to play Warrior to end up finding out it’s more ‘melee with some ranged thrown in’. I’d want to play more the other way around and only use melee when things get too close the same as I have been doing with the Ranger.
I understand that the rifle is the better single target DPS ranged weapon the warrior has, but I hear some people saying it’s ‘overrated’, but I love using longbows in wvwvw so I’d like to hope this was viable on the Warrior, I don’t see why it shouldn’t be.
There seems to be enough skills in the trait lines to spec for this type of thing, but I’d love some input from you guys on this subject.
I have read around online and there seems to be some conflicting views on the viability of a ranged focused warrior which is what prompted me to hopefully gain some clarity on the matter from you warriors out there.
Thanks for listening!
Also happens with me during wvwvw.
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Had it happen about 5 times now always during big wvwvw zergs. As others have said, I have to re-log the game to make it stop which is annoying due to the super long queue times.
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Had a response on my ticket saying anet are working on a solution to this which is encouraging to hear.
I’m sure there’s a lot of people experiencing this.
Got just above the first teir 25k, ported to a town to empty my bags and what not, ported back to continue questing and my XP was stuck in the place it was before I ported, even though I hadn’t died. Please fix this!