I’ll never understand the devs heads. It seems like they have an intrinsic hatred against the bow.
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Apparently these changes were unintentional. Considering how much actually change in different parts of mechanics that would be tied to different methods, that’s pretty bad. It’s either really bad coding or they did intend to tweak some things without notice. Maybe a little of both.
Shadow_Fox said that the arrow spread is unintentional. Not the clunky animations or nerfed fire rate. Or she said something else that I didn’t noticed?
It was Luxendra but she amended the post…
Edit: I have also confirmed that the other items in this thread were not adjusted on purpose. The team is investigating.
Okay. Can you link it please?
Let’s hope they fix it asap.
Sorry, I should have given the link before.
“Not adjusted on purpose.” We already know the lead designers play GA/WH and the meta has shifted steadily to that combo along with VG/IG. They’ve nerfed bow 6 times already. Feels like there’s bias in the design instead of balance.
Yeah I dunno man. I can only guess that they tried to tweak stuff and really dont want to say, the coding is really spaghetti bad, and or they keep getting their different branches crossed. At this point in the games life cycle it shouldn’t be happening like that anymore, but it frequently happens too often. I want to love this game and I enjoy playing it with the friends I made but man there are so many problems still and so many just poor design decisions still.
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Changes to bows were fine on ptr. I dont play it, or very badly. But at least good players could compete or wait a minute even get in a war roster. Give them some love…
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The original changes on PTR were fantastic. Bow felt great. The current “unintended” changes made the bow worse than live.
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For real. I haven’t been in a war since everyone started meta chasing Dawnguard’s combo from 2 months ago. Before that, I was working with GA/WH to Rain of Arrows and Pen Shot their Grav Wells. Now Dex in general can’t get slotted unless they wanna work the ramparts and use musket. I don’t even sign up anymore.
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I get slotted in wars but I am not in a super try hard company. I can tell you that while I can pad damage real well, I feel completely insignificant and actually a hindrance to the outcome of a war. The design of war and weapons just makes any primarily single target weapon fairly useless.
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It’s only stat padding if the damage doesn’t contribute to kills or objectives. If the damage helps others get the kill, that’s fine and does help get the win even if you’re at the bottom of the roster. You still have to poke a downed enemy for it to count as a kill in war so it means literally nothing other than you used a broom for them.
Meh Pen shot if you get that miracle lined up shot does well. Rain of arrows is clunky and can miss people standing in it maybe does 1k to properly geared people. Poison shot ticks 100-200 and is healed through passive regen.
I get some kills and tons of assists but I just dont feel like Ive done much of anything. I think the best thing that I do in war is maybe helping to clear the respawn campers. Which I know is important but I still feel pretty meh useful.
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With all the Grav Wells, Pen Shots are easy in war if you stay close to the point. Rain of Arrows gets 150% weapon damage plus bleed on every target it hits. If you have Vorpal and/or Enchanted, you’ll get higher numbers. The goal isn’t for kills though. It’s to make the Bruiser’s job easier clearing the circle and taking out Healers when you have the support. Rapid Shot is better for clumps than Poison Shot. Especially since it’s single target and Healers make the poison pointless.
I dont use rapid shot. I cant stand things that root me. If I could dodge out of it maybe but in its current form no. I do know it hits hard but its just not my playstyle. This may just be a me thing but I really dont feel useful. There is a reason mages are brought instead of bows.
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I agree with you in some of what you said there. I do want you to know though that they said none of those changes were intentional and they are investigating why it happened.
Nah, they didn’t mean to adjust everything like that but many of the adjustments were on purpose.
probably
Lets be honest. They thought the bow was overturned. However, it is clearly not. It has a long way to go before it is overturned.
But because they came to this conclusion they ninja nerfed it on PTR. People noticed right away. And AGS called it a bug.