Why is Punishing Shot an elite?

you can keep broad arrow, punishing shot is the best elite for ranger IMHO

Haha, it sucks, you say? Gawd, I agree with monkey grip. I used to think Poison Arrow was the best. Until I seriously started using Punishing Shot, the more I used it, the more I discover its potentials and threats. Maybe I'm bad at describing but I feel Punishing Shot is fantastic... beyond words.

1) As mentioned above, it's great for spiking because of its release time. Dishing 3 arrows under 1.5s is no joke with those preps and FW. Get a couple of rangers, and before he or she can press for heal, the opponent's health bar is zero.

2) You might think PS is just another average spam attack skill in your skillbar, but if you put yourself in the opponent's shoes, you'll find yourself really stressed. It's a mind game. You'd hesitate when to release your strongest move, and that decreases your effectivity alot because GW is a game on good strat and quick thinking and response.

3) Honestly you'd be irritated enough if a normal attack was interrupted, not to mention a crucial skill like a stance or prep. I've been interrupted by warrior thumpers before and I hate that feeling. I know how it feels to be interrupted by PE when sometimes you don't even see your opponent. You're about to defeat the opposing melee opponent, when suddenly an attack of yours is interrupted, and you lose instead.

You might say Savage Shot can do the job as well, you don't need PS as an elite. The thing about PS is that it's an EXTRA interrupt on top of Savage Shot, that does even more damage on general. PS can be spammed with Dual Shot, where as SS must be carefully used with hesistation and quick response as a requirement. And if you think about it, if an opposing team's ranger has 2 powerful interrupts on him, you'd be nailing or watching him the entire battle. And to put it into practical usage, if you have 2 interrupts you don't even have to worry what you're interrupting, just spam! Suppose Warrior A is meleeing Warrior B, and Warrior C is helping Warrior A. Ranger A helps Warrior B. In an intensive battle of double-team, let's say Under 10s, each warrior makes 7 moves. Warrior A and C dt Warrior B, for a total of 12 moves under 10s. Ranger A and Warrior B dt Warrior A 14 moves under 10s. Your rate of attack is already interrupted even if it isn't a crucial skill being interrupted. Unless there's a very significant in skill between the two duos, it's unlikely Warrior A and Warrior C will win the duel. I'm talking about non-thumpers here, to make calculations easier.

Wooh! Long story. Shows my passion of PS, after discovering it. I'm addicted to it in short. It's the reason why I refuse to move away from spike build. =p

For those who read through that whole chunk, thanks for the patience.

I think the argument between Broadhead and Punishing shot comes down to this:

If you're going against strong single targets that cast a lot of spells quickly, the best choice to interupt them is Broadhead Arrow.

Any other situation, you're probably better off with Punishing Shot.

It would be overpowered if it's not an elite. Imagine having punishing + savage with say choking gas + oath shot, or tiger's fury + incendiary arrows? Your opponent wouldn't get a single attack or skill off.

for interupting and spiking, you almost have to have punishing shot.

what i have been using is punishing shot, maruaders, distracting, savage, and precision, stance (distrotion), trolls, and whatever

the key is to make you oppnent react to your forst probing shot, if they don't do anything, pop em with marauders, they see they are taking some semi-serious dmg, then you have 3 interupts waiting, one with good dmg (punishing), one for skill shutdown/interupting, and then savage with damage and interupting.

might want to take savage or distracting out, because usually after you firs off maraunder and punishing, and one other, punishing is rdy to go again.

i don't know, i am probably talking out the rectum here, but its been my strat with it for awhile, of and if you are henching, take Aurora the longbow henchmen, she alwasy throws dow favorable winds, or what ever that spirit is for plus dmg on arrows.

EDIT: its also a hard cap for a factions noewcomers!

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OK, I can sortof see what you guys mean.

Marauders & Melandrus Shot do almost twice as much damage, and Savage recharges in almost half the time - but Punishing does decent damage and interrupts all in one.

I still feel it's weak for an elite, but I'll take it out for a spin and maybe that'll change my mind.

Not only is it an elite.. but it looks damn hard to cap. You'd need to run all the way to the top half of snake dance (from beacons or rankor). I'm really not looking forward to capping this..

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Punishing shot: If Punishing Shot hits, you strike for +10...18 damage and your target is interrupted.

broadhead arrow: You shoot a broad head arrow that moves slower than normal. If it hits, target foe is Dazed for 5...17 seconds, and if target foe is casting a Spell that Spell is interrupted.

put broadhead on same skill bar with savage shot and you have so many more possiblities! now u can quikly daze that anoing mesmer, and move on to the warior using heal sig, knowing that even if u dont wach the mesmer is temporary out of game, because every wand hit interrupts him....

well, pretty much any caster imo would resign if woud see that 2 rangers have broadhead arrow on their skillbar