Quick Shot is Underrated

I've played as a ranger for a very long time, trying out builds from Guildwiki's untested section. Once I got to the ring of fire island chain, i found a cap group that was capping the entire island, and I went with them.

I had already captured Crippling Shot. So I waited for another cap to surface. When finally I found a ranger boss named Maxime Coldstone. Her cap seemed bad, but i capped it anyway, then put it on a PvP ranger to do Random Arenas with.

I found myself attacking faster than swords, axes, and pretty much anything else. With one attack that hit faster than normal every single second, I had a very large dps when combined with my Vampiric PvP Hornbow of Fortitude.

Our team was unstoppable until finally we hit a very experianced and balanced Team Arenas team, their mesmer was using Diversion on my Quick Shot, all I had was my other bow attack, Marauder's Shot. Eventually they whittled us down.

Whenever I mention this build I get "QS is a joke" or "QS SUCKS NOOB"<--- The typical noob response.

I OWNED every one of my friends in scrimmages with this build. They all succeeded with the build I told them about too. Quick Shot is not at all a bad elite. With a Vamp Hornbow max damage you have the highest sustainable DPS a ranger has.

You can use it with Kindle Arrows + Conjure Flame also.

Or with Read the Wind and Favourable Winds, a bit less damage but your arrows are never gonna miss and are pressuring so well!

I know, I feel the same way as you. I considered various possibilities before; RtW + FW, using Quick Shot gives you an arrow that flies 8 times faster constantly, and does +16 damage. All you need is to spam QS and you'll definately irritate your victim. Another pressurizing tactic would be to probably use Apply Poison and spam all targets with poison, or keep aiming someone with QS so the poison is always there. Maybe I should switch from my spike build to a QS build at least during pve for try outs.

Quick Shot is definately a great skill.

Yay. I was expecting the standard noob response all around, "QS SUCKS NOOB" but im actually getting support. QS is a way better skill than everyone thinks it is. I'm getting exp players so far.

*waits for the rush of noobs to invade the topic*

*Makes point before noobs rush in*

It's only underrated by nublets

*Puts on Anti-Flame jacket and flees*

I like using Dual Shot, Quick Shot, then Savage Shot, for 3 rapidly fired shots (well, 4 considering Dual Shot).

Works nice with extra dmg from Favorable Winds, Kindle Arrows, Conjure Flame, and a vampiric bow.

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Meh, its the Practiced Stance of the damage dealing world... Useless if you don't use it with the right skills.

Quick shot allows you to create a lot of pressure with a bow ranger. Honestly that job is better handled by warriors.

Cripple shot + apply poison is always going to be king for a number of reasons. you get to snare the wars target and instantly covered by poison. Spread poison throughout an entire team for more added pressure.

Crip shot rangers also carry blackout.

Quick shot is good in TA/RA because you only need to take a lot of pressure and not utility in those environments. GvG/HA you will see other types of rangers being ran.

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QS was so much fun before they fixed it though. Uzi ranger ftw.

Well this is an untested build on the wiki.

http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/R/any_Quick_Needler

I've run this build in HOH and RA only I switch with a vamp mod because 2 energy even for this rapid build is not that bad. Other varities was that my friend changed to a reclusive bow and then used apply posion. Ive always filled the optional slot with pin down to avoid getting raped by touchers and warriors. From what I've seen, an all around powerful build but the lack of self heal and weakness to Mesmers leads me to run other builds, yet I can see this becomming a new type of spike, with some modifications for team play ofcourse.

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Quickshot is awesome. Dual-Quick-Salvage shot with Kindle can deal around 40% of a casters health in around 2 seconds.

Here's a build I use in AB, I've actually killed a mage in one spike with a height advange.

12 Mark
11 Wild
14 Exp

Zealous Hornbow
R/W

Dual Shot
Quick Shot
Salvage Shot
Kindle Arrows
Frenzy
Rush
"Watch Yourself!" or Whirling Defense
Farvorable Winds

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I don't play PvP so is it primarily only good for PvP or does it work great in PvE as well? I haven't capped this skill yet.

I've been playing with a variation of this build in Arborstone...I found that with my R/N, Gaze of Contepmt removes all enchantments from foe with health above 50%...startles the boons and with a Savage Shot and needle-needle-needle....they go down faster than you might think.

Gaze of Contempt when playing necro secondary, is a great way to open the door to taking down the boons...removes all enchantments if their health is above 50% (which it usually is)...remove enchantments, interrupt them and needle-needle-needle....

Personally I think after playing a R/P that QS really is going to be inferior in terms of rapid fire high damage builds. I won't go so far as to say that the skill should be completely discredited, but I have always prefered a crippleshot + poison build.

The key is understanding that in a PvP environment, additional forms of support are usually better than just damage. This is why a Cripshot is good, because rather than just hitting 1 as fast as you can, you're also applying pressuring conditions to the other team that, in the long run, will provide a lot more benefit than 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111.

It's also important to recognize that the legitimacy of a build stems from where you're using it. In AB, Quickshot is likely to own the grand majority of people you encounter with it. Why? They have no Monk, most likely, and their self heal is probably something so poor that you can kill them with any semi-decent build.

When you get to the more advanced levels of PvP, however, as I said, the key is support, not just damage. This is why Crip, Punishing, and Oath Shot see a good deal more play.

As far as PvE, Quick Shot was far more usable before they fixed it, whereas before you could fire it several times in the time it now takes for you to fire it once.

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