Surviving Elswyth's Bow

Mending if you're lazy, but the -1 energy regen just isn't worth it. Well I changed second prof just to get mending, but the spell keeps ending when I'm fighting. Keeping track of mending is more trouble than changing bows.

You'll have to swith off all vamp bows when your not directly attacking someone. Its not something you can change.

And since its a recurve bow you wont be using it all the time anyway. recurve bows are Composite bows by nature and are for med range interupting so its not for all builds.

I picked it up because its got one of the best bow skins.

For the Zealous hating guy above - Zealous is the best bow prefix. a pip of energy regen gives 1 energy every 3 secs. You are giving that up for 1 energy every ~2 secs (more if you dual shot, or barrage). hehe, I don't hate zealous really, but it's much better in theory than in practice for me. Sure you get energy every ~2 sec instead of 3, but that's assuming you are constantly attacking. Admittedly it works well with dual shot and/or barrage type skills, but I don't tend to use those much, except maybe in PvE. My builds are generally suited towards a balance of interupt/poison/cripple/evade. I keep a zealous and vamp bow on hand at all times, but rarely find them as useful as a good 'ol poisoner's longbow...

Oh yea, and if you just like it for the skin, get Elswyth's longbow. It's better imho (or at least for builds like mine) and has the same skin...

I never knew recurves have the fastest arrow flight time! Damn I'm a noob.....sometimes. Well I don't think it should make a difference to me since I don't know how to interrupt right. I can never interrupt monk or spells that are 2 or 1 second cast times. Well thanks for that Valerius, recurves huh? There is a spot under the Guides section on Guru that compares the aspects of all the different types of bows. Find it here:
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/content...ies-id1092.php

As for interupting, sometimes you just gotta spam interupts (for example choking gas) against some enemies with fast casting times (i.e. mesmers and monks) and hope for the best. Ranger interupts work great on Elementalists, tanks using heal sig, and anyone resurecting. In either case, I have grown to love the longbow and keep it as my go to weapon in most cases.

Oh yea, and be sure to check out the rest of the guides. There are lots of useful ones for rangers there as well. Find that section here:
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/guides-id119.php

yeah man... just get a crap bow that looks kool... ( stormbow, eternalbow, mursaat horn etc. ) and switch to it while outside of battle... Recurves have the fastest arrow flight time so u should really only be using it when interupting or when ur gonna be shooting at moving targets And why does this disqualify it for use with barrage?! Why ONLY when interupting? If you're worried about hitting the target and don't have RtW and/or favourable... composite should be near the top of your list with shortbows.

Recurves, and Longbows have one VERY strong point selling them for anyone running barrage. You can hit barrage EVERY attack without breaking animation. EG: one barrage every 2.4s. Shortbows can't do this... they attack to fast.. you end up breaking animation and barraging SLOWER than you would with the recurve/longbow. Hornbows, also benefit from this, in that you can barrage once every 2.7s. If I have a shortbow or IAS with barrage I interleave barrage between attacks... (EG: barrage, penetrating, barrage, hunters, barrage, penetrating...).

And why does this disqualify it for use with barrage?! Why ONLY when interupting? If you're worried about hitting the target and don't have RtW and/or favourable... composite should be near the top of your list with shortbows.

Recurves, and Longbows have one VERY strong point selling them for anyone running barrage. You can hit barrage EVERY attack without breaking animation. EG: one barrage every 2.4s. Shortbows can't do this... they attack to fast.. you end up breaking animation and barraging SLOWER than you would with the recurve/longbow. Hornbows, also benefit from this, in that you can barrage once every 2.7s. If I have a shortbow or IAS with barrage I interleave barrage between attacks... (EG: barrage, penetrating, barrage, hunters, barrage, penetrating...). Never though of it that way, good point!

Well I changed second prof just to get mending, but the spell keeps ending when I'm fighting. Keeping track of mending is more trouble than changing bows. It either is being rended from you or yuor energy is being drained to zero, which would make your enchantment drop, and one way to avoid running out of energy is to get rid of mending, and it shouldn't matter if it ran out uring combat because you are doing damage then and should be stealing live, F1 and F2 are easier to hit then worrying about mending, just do it.

There is a spot under the Guides section on Guru that compares the aspects of all the different types of bows. Find it here:
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/content...ies-id1092.php Is that page correct? I thought the aggro bubble was 80', a composite bow could shoot 80', and a long bow could shoot 100' (for example). I went through the little Battle Isle newbie trainer they added and I think that's what it said (as well as what I remember to be true)...