NEW Holosmith SHORTBOW Open World Build
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- čas přidán 8. 06. 2024
- Now that we have had the 2nd major update of the current Secrets of the Obscure expansion, we get to play with new weapons on all 9 professions. Engineers gained access to the Shortbow, which is an excellent support weapon for group content. But I made work for the Open World instead!
Most open world builds will feature a Mechanist build where you support your Mech at a distance. These are great, but I wanted to be able to use a shortbow for regular solo content as well, without being relegated to using my Mech at all times.
This is where Holosmith comes into play. Photon Forge is an excellent addition to our new abilities, as we can enter forge mode while our skills are on (a rather long) cooldown. Holosmiths excel at dispatching regular enemies, veterans and elites due to various damage bonuses they have access to and their toolbelt skills. By combining the elite spec with our newest weapon, we get a very efficient build for running around, farming enemies, participating in events, or anything else you might want to do in the open world!
00:00 Intro
00:52 Traits
02:45 Heal, Utility, Elite skills
03:29 Playstyle & Rotation
04:08 Gear & Stats
04:52 Outro
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Holosmith Build: gw2skills.net/editor/?PegAURlJwoYRsDGKOuXdPXA-DSJYiRVfZ0WqURVY5VBAqA-e
Mechanist Build: gw2skills.net/editor/?PegAURlxysYusXWMOuXdRPA-DSJYiRVfZ0WqURVY5ZBAqA-e
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Not gonna lie, the engineer shortbow feels like someone looked over the new weapons, found out they forgot about the existence of the engineer class and had to quickly make up stuff on the spot.
That is... probably the best metaphor I've read about the new weapons. Especially, considering the names and effects of every single skill.
I really appreciate the effort you went through to try to find a spot for the short bow. I'm using the short bow mech build at the moment. This build you have here with holosmith, however, isn't really a short bow build, it's a holosmith build that uses a short bow, and you even said at the end a rifle works better, which is true. I may have to resign myself to the fact that in its current incarnation at least, short bow on engi is basically relegated to the short bow mechanist meme build. This is a very solid holosmith open world farm build, though.
Yeah, the base is indeed a holosmith build, as I wanted something that was less reliant on my mech for general farming. I do think that shortbow will be relegated to mainly a support weapon, unless we all get the ranger maces treatment. Increasing the damage coefficient would make shortbow stupid strong (which I wouldn't be against tbh :P)
I agree with you here. Seems like shortbow is still in a weird place. Like it is not a full weapon yet. Mechanist fills in some gaps, but even then the mace just does it better.
@@phandrel Yeah, getting the ranger mace treatment for short bow engi would be interesting. Nice to have options.
I appreciate your effort in looking for a unique way to use Engineer Shortbow!
Thanks! Some of the new weapons are a challenge to implement, but I found out I kinda like experimenting till I find something that works :)
Thank you :)
Ill give it another try
My favorite three classes are the mesmer, elementalist and engineer. I've never used holosmith but I'm going to give this build a try. I can only have so many scrappers, after all lol.
Hope you'll like it! Holosmith is definitely an underrated spec, mainly due to both scrapper and mechanist being so amazing. But it has its own strengths :)
The bow doesn't need bigger numbers. What it really needs is for it's skills to have the Explosion tag, because Anet decided to "balance" this weapon by making an entire traitline worthless.
I would love for all of the essences to be blast finishers. I really want to try a healing build that relies on Healing Turret's water field, but as it stands, it doesn't perform as I'd like it to.
Love it!
Awesome!
It was a headscratcher on how to incorporate shortbow in a non-mech build, but it turned out to be really fun.
The whole time I was thinking ''isn't the rifle just better'' and then you said it. I appreciate you trying to make shortbow work though. Personally, I don't use it at all. It's just in a sad spot right now. They added new weapons but there isn't any synergistic traits to make this one in particular work.
Yeah, rifle is the go-to for ranged power damage right now. I had fun making and playing the build as is, though, but I do want to stay honest as well :)
could you use this in WvW or what would you change
If the burst kills fast enough, it'd be useable, but you sorely lack a stunbreak.
You could swap out laser disk for Spectrum Shield, which would give you that and some extra stability as well. I would need to test it out how well it performs against different professions, though.
@phandrel thank you. I would love to see a video of what you can do with this build for wvw
Anet need make it better to suport, more healing or buffs and combo fields, because the damage is bad
I tested it in CO CM this week, and for the damage Dagda does, shortbow felt good. I might even drop some kits to make a rather passive build.
But for open world players, it's one of the least exciting options, for sure.
Will my kills during photon forge count towards the bow kills for the achievement? Lol
Funnily enough, photon forge kills count as staff kills.
@phandrel damnit lmao, guess I'm going mech :( and hope it doesnt steal my kills lol