I can still get some bursts on my 625 bow but its kind of meaningless. Fire rate is too slow and aim is too hard with tiny projectile, drop, and prediction required. A potion or healer will recover the enemy before u can ever kill them.
Yeah I hear you.
I’m spear/bow.
Sort of the behind from line support with AoE and occasional 2-4k hits.
When someone is low in HP I try a spear cc chain. If they’re heavy and high GS it’s unlikely I’ll kill them as potions are enough to counter the DMG I’ve done.
Bow needs the FS treatment.
Some buffs to nudge it up, make it viable, get people running it again, but not so OP like the current GA buff.
Some options could be shorter timing between shots, slightly faster arrow speed, slightly larger hitbox on projectile, less drop, or make the root after shot not so long. All of these could do wonders without making the weapon insane.
We also lost all animation cancels. Having at least one would be nice for a burst. FS has heavy into fireball and we recently gave melees animation cancels. The double standard is not fair.
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My other Bow thread was deleted. Nice ags!
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What server were you on?
which thread?
make the bow great again
As a bow/hatchet player, I felt the pain when I recently came back to the game. Both weapons have been severely nerfed, but specially bow.
Totally agree that the last skill for both trees need to be changed. One should be a slow on hit, the other a dmg increase.
It is so tough to hit someone in pvp, let alone the leg. At the same time you deal sub 1000 dmg and need more than 10 hits to kill a guy.
DOn’t worry, all problems are solved. The hipfire being queued has been addressed.
Nerf bow.
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Maybe they misunderstood when we said we don’t like being rooted? Im glad that is being fixed because that was like a triple root. However, that was definitely not the root we were all talking about lol.
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They took more than one month to make the weapon work as intended (which is not having the hip shot). How much they they will need to come up with a minimal bow balance?
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No matter how hard I try, I just cant stop playing my bow. Its the weapon I have most fun with. I get my rear kicked but I just cant help it. GA type stuff is not my thing. Neither are mage things.
BB is cool but it kind of suffers with the same root/slowdown bow does and its still not as fun.
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Pen shot can do really good numbers every 20-25 seconds depending of CDR… I’m doing the same numbers with fireball every 3-8 seconds. Oh and way easier to land on múltiple targets. I’ve played 800+ hours on bow and mage and bow is soooooo dar behind
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Fireball does crit with empowered perk
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From 2k- 2.8k depends on target…
Is a non sense that magues have those heavy atacks with that huge hit box and rapid cast and bow has the worst autoatack, low damage, slow proyectile and low hit box also huge CDS for skills.
Cant understand were is the balance? how is posible that a mague vs bow duel will be 95% of cases won for a mague doing only autoatacks. when autoatack of bow is suposed to be the strongest ranged autoatack in duels were mague has lot strong habilitys and lower cds than bow. But no… magues have also strongh autoatacks by far and strong heavy atacks. Non sense for me. Also the heavy atack of bow ? 3-5 seconds to cast? to shot and arrow that u will miss xD and do 70% more damage. VS a heavy atack of mague, AoE , more damage, Ice Can root, and cast lot faster also proyectile of magues are lot faster. Balance is real.
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That seems to be wrong, mine definitely crits for more.
White damage 2.8K seems more correct.
On crap gear ye
bow is dead, AGS doesn’t care, I’m also invested in DEX gear, so I left the game - I suggest you do the same.
if you run a search you will see there were more than 20 posts about the bow being a dead weapon with tons of replies, none of them got even a single response from AGS.