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Almost had hope they were reworking Bow perks , guess they working as intended
The bow feels night and day better now though, and it finally feels like a bow should. The hit box is still small very small but arrows actually hit now and they do not fly through people. The arrows are not faster but you can shoot faster. Most importantly You can dodge after a shot strait into sprint, so you aren’t just standing there frozen after your shots anymore, and as long as you dodge after your shots you are not hit with that stupid 1 second root, no dodge has some sort of delay, but not like before, and charged attack is fast enough to use in pvp now. The bow is back!
I do agree with you guys that the perks are absolutely dog water though, but this is still a win imo.
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You’d rather have perks that are so op become necessary spending a ton more just to get perks together? On top of ammo costs? Instead of just rocking a full set of the new pvp gear?
Perks definitely need to be reworked, but the bow feels 100% better - especially the heavy shot. It will make me rework my skill points for sure. Also, with the new emphasis on stamina and not being able to dodge as much, perks and skills that replenish stamina should be considered viable again.
Not perfect, but a huge step in the right direction!
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Yeah those heavy shot passives now become valid and Im going to have to actually go through my build and make some choices lol
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Yeah, we have to make some changes, but this compromise on stamina was totally worth it! Roots are completely reasonable now and I feel like gravity well is not an instant death any more. You can fight in it and slowly dodge out of it, but if you have good timing you will manage to stay alive. Arenas are the best thing for new world and my faith in AGS has been restored! I was really losing it with them, but I think they are on the right track now! I don’t think we need any more nerfs to dodge or stamina now though! The game actually feels balanced
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And please no nerfs to bow before actual release. It feels right atm and Id hate to see it stealth changed as its released like has happened in the past with weapons.
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I use heavy attacks. You need them to kill faster.
1,K light attack are stat paddding. Like poison arrow AoE.
Just set you expectations low, GAs don’t like it people beat them.
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Heavy attacks are way faster now. If you havent tried it then you are in for a treat.
We shall see what happens. All I know is right now bow feels great. I don’t like tuning happening based on PTR feedback when it comes to damage. Nobody is really running proper gear to give solid feedback. We already had one person say bow is OP and one shotting people which is an outright lie and I hope they aren’t listening to that.
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Complete lie! People just like to troll on bow pages, and I hope the devs see that.
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Yeah I don’t PTR, maybe if they listened and made changes based on feedback from bow players I would have.
I’ll take your word on it, watched a you tube clip where it looks like target actually works.
What a buff.
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I have been saying this all day! The fact that people complain about the bow having a heavy attack that is a reasonable time frame and in line with other classes, a hitbox that actually works so arrows can hit now(still small than firestaff by a significant amount) and the self cc Root after shots was reduced to make it so that movement is not fully prohibited after shots is so crazy to me. It is mostly ga and cheese melee builds complaining, but I highly doubt they are very good if they can counter a bow player at all. Bow still is in light armor and as soon as they are caught they are likely going to die, and dodge was nerfed which means that it takes much more skill to manage dodge rolls now, so bow has a counter. The people on ptr are a lot of active bow players that have been playing a broken weapon for months, and many are extremely skilled players, but that does not make the weapon op.
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Well bow have isue in ptr like 4 hit in 2 sec, so it will be op if it be like this on live server, bow supose to be powerful , but atill all perks suck;D
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The only thing that could change is the double shot, but to call it op is ridiculous imo
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Double shot is a bug that is happening for months and is listed on the known issues.
But the skill shot combo is back and like every weapon has it, bow deserves to have it as well.
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