Dragonhunter Longbow damage is too low, can we expect a rework?

[aaron.7850]

Im so sad that Longbow is not a viable pve weapon, some people might think that its okay since its a ranged weapon, but a lot of classes have viable builds that use their 1,200 range weapon into their pve rotations.

[Fueki.4753]

Arenanet doesn't like Ranged power weapons to be good on Heavy armour professions.Warrior Rifle has always been terrible, Revenant Hammer has been ruined in February.I don't know if Dragon Hunter Longbow ever was good. I only use it to pull enemies.

I don't think it'll receive a rework within the next 20 years.

[Derm.4932]

People have been asking for years. The only noteworthy thing they did was add the knockback baseline into LB3 followed by tripling the cast time making it even worse than before.

[Obtena.7952]

1. Don't think comparisons to other class capabilities is compelling; notice classes are different ... for good reason
2. Why do you think everything needs to be 'viable' in whatever game mode you choose?

I think we can not expect a rework based on the fact that there are LOTS of weapons that aren't 'viable' and balancing to some equivalent performance level isn't what we have seen Anet do.

[ParaNoidAndroid.1406]

The damage of Longbow is good when there are lots of enemies around, because you can get your F1 skill up, and use your 2 to hit a massive damage, every 4 seconds. That's about 65% of your GS 2 skill (at least for me). I get about 25-28k per skill 2 on LB, with Spear of Justice active on the target. That doesn't really work for single target bosses, but then it does give you 2 CCs in your rotation. So, I use it as a stop gap for my GS rotation, where you simply go away, kite for sometime (if required), and come back with GS.

That being said, I can totally agree on boosting damage from 1 and 2 skills on LB, and reducing recharge time for 3 in PvE.

[Lucas.3718]

I had this idea stolen from the defenders (sunspear dh) in the Twilight Oasis fractal, but what if True Shot also left a damaging trail in the shooting direction.

[ParaNoidAndroid.1406]

@Lucas.3718 said:I had this idea stolen from the defenders (sunspear dh) in the Twilight Oasis fractal, but what if True Shot also left a damaging trail in the shooting direction.

Haha. Mordrem Sniper vibes.

[crazyhusky.2985]

I would to see like to DH - longbow buffed.It is currently the only Elite weapon that can't be used effectively in raids in same way at all.It's too slow and its cooldowns are a bit long. LB5 has the longest weapon CD in the game.

Maybe they could give DH's LB a trait to replace heavy light or repurpose it for longbow.Give it condi?

[SoftFootpaws.9134]

Both Dragonhunter and Warrior Longbow skills need alot of love, they're far to generic. Its strange because the weapon is most used by Ranger who also has the most interesting skills, traits and overall power to go with it, so its not like you don't have a good design to pull from when figuring out what to do with the weapon, but I don't know.

Maybe because Ranger damage scaling is lower, the devs felt they could make LB more powerful there?

[Sifu.9745]

Even my Staff dmg seems on pair with Longbow lol, especially Staff autoatack (condi builds) hits pretty hard for a 1200 ranged support weapon. So, yea, i would like to see a Longbow doing higher dps than Staff at least.

[Dante.1508]

Warrior longbow is unplayable.. Rifle is unplayable why because ranged circumvents 99% of the annoying boss mechanics, they wont ever be fixed.

[GW Noob.6038]

There will never be a rework of the longbow, or of any ranged weapon for that matter, unless it is to be nerfed. Someone at Anet HATEs the bow - one of the most popular and effective weapons in human history - but absolutely loves the greatsword, which is one of the most unpopular and ineffective weapons in human history. Anet: turning established history and lore on its head since...the beginning!

[Pockethole.5031]

I would love to see longbow 1 damage buffed and 5 cd reduced.