![]() Where she is right now is about the maximum draw she’d be able to get. You can also see pretty clearly how her body blocks how much of a draw she can get. Not to mention the fact that without the fletching, or with it damaged, the arrow is not going to fly straight. Assuming it flies at all, she’s going to get a handful of fletching, which I can also say from experience is painful. At least it appears that she’s got her arm turned so that the string shouldn’t catch on it, but…it appears that she’s holding the arrow between her hand and the bow. Eir is holding the bow on the underside of her arm. The string was going over the top of her arm. At least Verene up there had the arrow held on the top of the bow, so it was possible to get a full draw on the bow, even if loosing the arrow was going to result in pain, realistically. She’s doing it again! In fact, what she’s doing is even worse. Look at Eir, in this screencap from the new trailer shown at gamescom 2011. This continues in Guild Wars 2, or at least from what we’ve seen in videos thus far. Also note how her head is tilted in order to try and get a proper line of sight – with the bow drawn that far, the string would also catch on her chin and shoulder. But the worst…if there was an actual string there, when she looses that arrow? It would get caught on her armor and the force behind the arrow would be lost, or worse, it would simply carve the hell out of her arm. Her left arm – the one holding the bow itself – is bent, which would prevent her from being able to get the max draw on the bow. I generally stand straight instead of bending my knees when I shoot, but that’s not necessarily wrong, and her feet are planted far apart to brace her.īut the way the actual bow is held…my goodness. Standing with her body perpendicular with her target, right arm pulling the string back straight and even with her ear (or so it would be, had I gotten the screenshot from a straight side angle). See how she’s holding her bow? Well, part of the form is correct. Also, can I just say that I love the Dryad Bow? Best bow skin in the game. She’s being a good little Ranger, shooting at the poor Master of Damage who puts up with so much abuse from players. Well, somewhere along the line…Rangers in Guild Wars never learned how to hold a bow properly!Īt the left here, we have my Ranger, Verene (yeah, guess where my nickname came from :P). So what does this have to do with Guild Wars? Following them not only helps to maximize the power behind your shot, but it also helps prevent you from injuring yourself like I did. As that little story suggests, though, there are proper archery forms, and they exist for a reason. It’s also a hobby that can easily lead to injuries – I refuse to wear armguards any longer after one incident where I didn’t have my arm turned out enough and the string caught on the underside of the amguard, both yanking it off and scraping a few layers of skin off the underside of my left arm. It requires a lot of skill and practice to be able to shoot accurately – you have to be able to judge and adjust for things like the arrow’s flight and arc, wind (direction it’s coming from, if there’s any lift, windspeed, and gusts), if you’re just shooting something stationary or a moving target…not to mention the fact that archery requires a surprising amount of upper body strength in order to fully draw a bow. I’ve always loved the ranger archetype, and I will not deny that my early days of reading fantasy and playing D&D influenced my decision to take up archery as a hobby. As bows were what was primarily used for ranged fighting before guns existed (and became widely used), this is no surprise. The nature-attuned bow-wielder, able to put an arrow through anything that crosses her path. Rangers are a staple class/profession in anything fantasy. This is going to be slightly silly and nitpicky.
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