How to utilize Broad Head Arrow effectively

Given it's high cost and long recharge, if you want to use this powerful elite in your build you have to consider other skills you take carefully. Ideally your build should be able to do the following:

1. Attack fast, because even a shortbow shoots too slowly to interrupt a dazed healing monk.
2. Cause several conditions, otherwise dazed'll be removed too easily.
3. Slow down the target so it won't get behind cover or out of range too easily.
4. A minimal of other high-cost bow attacks.

Keeping the above in mind my example build will consist of:

Broad Head Arrow
Hunter's Shot
Pindown
Apply Poison
Lightning Reflex (or Tiger's Fury)
Whirling Defense (optional)
Troll

I noticed that Favorable Wind does almost nothing to reduce the huge arc on Broad Head. Not sure if Read the Wind is any better. However if you use Read, then you'll be lacking the poison condition.

Using a build similar to the one above I went 13-0 on a RA team. We had no monk or ritualist, and won against multiple 2-monk teams. It did help that the other ranger on the team had Concussion Shot, so there was a lot of dazed going around.

If you're not worried about survival you can bring something like Arcane Conundrum. Just keep in mind that it's still virtually impossible to interrupt something like RoF. Chance is higher if you have melee teammates attacking the target at the same time however, since all their hits become interrupts automatically under dazed condition.

i cant see one reason why i should use this skill instead off concusion shot

From my limited experience using Broad Head Arrow durring the FPE, I'd strongly suggest using either Fav Winds, or RTW with the skill, as well as an IAS stance. The strength is that you don't need to interupt to trigger the Daze.

That being said, I don't see it as being a fantastic skill vs Boon/Prot monks, which are still the most common form of monk that you see in RA/TA.

Dazed without needing to interrupt a spell. Need I say more?

if you can't interupt with concussion shot, then i'm sorry, broad head arrow isn't going to help you one bit.

and "zomg daze them even if they don't cast spellz!!!!!"
then daze would be useless.

I always chuckle to myself when ranger mobs hit me (a ranger) with broad head arrow.

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Maybe it's just me, but I'm having a hard time interrupting RoF with Concussion. -_-

Unconditional daze will have certain uses, it's undeniable.

Daze is to casters what blind is to damage dealers. I'm not sure how good this is in PvP, but in PvE you can shut down a caster mob with plenty of time to kill it.

Take this on the Nahpui Quarter mission, you'll love it.

Quote: Originally Posted by K.Ichigo

How about use the skill, and THEN bash it. I haven't used it yet, and am only surmising at its potential. You act as if Concussion Shot at 12 energy (with high expertise) and a huge recharge is an easy way to cause daze. It's only guarenteed on Elementalists and Necromancers. Just at least try it out before you assume that it's garbage.

The only way this skill we be of any use in PvP is with Fevered Dreams. Hitting multiple people with dazed is your best chance of having it not removed. HA would be the best environment. I don't think GvG is a good place for this skill. Besides there is really no reason to run this over concussion shot as a single target daze.

I can already see Rangers using Broad Head Arrow with a long-recharge bow, saying short bows suck... Sigh.
Anyway, if you can't take out a Necro, an Ele or a Mesmer with the usual 2 interrupts (savage and distracting), you're doing a poor job. A good monk will remove the condition Dazed pretty fast anyway.

Concussion Shot is fun. But it's just for the occasional out-of-the-box Random Arenas...

Maybe u could use Broad Head and then use Savage to inturrupt stuff like RoF.

idk, I`m just looking for a use.

P.S- The fevered dreams combo actually sounds kinda nice.

I think Broad Head Arrow just flat out sucks, which is disappointing. It should be more like Crippling Shot.

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Quote: Originally Posted by Huntmaster

I agree that concussion shot vs a ele/mes/nec/rit is worthwhile, but if you tried to interrupt a boon prot monk youll have a much harder time. Sure you can wait for a guardian, but still every ranger interrupter should agree that interrupting a monk is much harder then most caster classes and there is a big chance that the guardian's casting time is halfed!

With my broad head arrow build I SHUTDOWN a monk completly unless they have someone else removing the 3 conditions that I stack on the monk, he wont get dazed off. Having a constant daze just rips monks apart, get a melee class on them too and they wont cast anything. Instead of just some of the time having daze and then it gets removed.

The skills for my broad head arrow build are
Broad head arrow
Distracting Shot
Savage Shot
Pindown
Apply Poison
Whriling def
Fav winds
Ress sig

Also people arent using the silencing bow string to its potential. That makes my daze last 26 secs!!

Pindown with broad head arrow works wonders! Pin them down and move a bit closer to them to ensure that the broad head arrow hits

Quote: Originally Posted by Huntmaster