Armor perks Of Bow are a bullshit. I cant use no one cause are non viable. Poison toxic area must have a perk to cut in some way healing or something that make it useful, penetrating shot /evade shot must have a perk to make you more defensive like something to know down the target. Something useful, right now how many of you are using Bow perks in armor?
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none
none, im full refreshing resil for when I want to double check how terrible it is haha.
Killing someone with a bow is a feat of strength as you are so handicapped compared to every single other weapon. Oh they have Medium armor? Good luck getting 4 dodges before landing anything and staying alive. Oh they have heavy armor? enjoy your 700-900 crits while they armor break you for 40% of your health. GG boys
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I am using enfeebling poison shot and penetrating rapid shot.
They bring at least a little bit to the table.
Apart from that…yeah…they are all very subpar. Even those 2.
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Yeah, it’s ridiculous. If you’re a geared ranged playing against a geared melee, you’re hardly winning a 1v1. You deal ridiculous damage, not even mentioning the amount of missed shot because of infinite iFrames. And if they catch you, all they need is one vortex and GG, you’re dead.
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i have same build with rapier.
its pretty much troll build right now since it does nothing in group fight.
no real dmg no cc, so
i run solo and this ends up trolling few players in chasing me while i dodge back and forth and so on .
or i find some decent 1v1 fight which mostly never ends if not light armour.
or i troll myself and run to enemy cap or even camp.
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Bow
- Fixed an issue where bow status effects could not be extended via perks or other bonuses.
welp looks like theres no new changes for the bow. Rip dex players for wars/OPR
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To be fair this is from last week. I’m waiting for this weeks PTR notes….
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AGS be like
Bow
- Fixed an issue where there appears to be more than 3 bow mains / active server on all 3 sides combined. Excess players have been been banned, company’s have been refunded a war roster bench spot.
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really hope we get some changes this month.
-projectile speed increase
-refreshing pen shot on hit instead of on kill
-change the final tree nodes on both sides. both are mid
-rework splinter shot and/or let empowering SS just last 10 seconds without the “or on next hit”
-evade shot armor perk needs to give more stam or do something else entirely
idk just help us out! lol
dont need it to be OP just on par with the rest of the weapons.
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New PTR Patch notes are out and they didn’t even mentioned Bow. Our feedback isn’t being listened.
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I hope they intend to add some weapon balancing to this patch. another month+ of bow being complete MID would be rough. I am getting by but i honestly dont even want to run wars because I feel like they are better of with a musket and I’m just not into it.
I run bow every game I play. I’ve always loved the aesthetic and this is the first MMO that ive played where its actually skill shot rather than tab target which I love. I don’t understand why they keep nerfing it tho. Or why all the armor perks are so trash.
I spent all last month getting one tapped by ice spike. This month sar far seems like i been stuck in a constant grav wells lmao
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Lol it hits bow users for high damage. I hit one GA fella for 800 yesterday with it.
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Evade shot armor perk idea:
On hit stamina regen increased by 30% for 10 seconds.
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I’m finally done with Bow… Dex players will not make it to war any more in my server considering that now the meta is IG/GA, IG/FS, IG/LS, IG/VG… That is how ppl defend their territory. And most of those are GA players so I’ll have to become one if I want to make it into wars.
I love how IG players say the root of their skills/passives does not need to be nerfed, but Camelot has become IG/X and all those builds do amazing. No hate on IG, just hate how AGS nerfs a weapon so much that any other weapon just shines much better.
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All we can do now is wait. Reading the PTR notes and seeing no fundamental bow tweaks (or even medium/heavy dmg mitigation vs bow being addressed) is sad, but we’re still in the beginning of March. Really hope they’ll look into all our suggestions and feedback.
Right now OPRs are a tiny bit more enjoyable since most run light again (courtesy to the slide after dodge roll, how did that even happen) and it gives the illusion of viable bow damage. The moment you run into medium mages/bruisers/anything (FS bussin’ right now) you feel like a complete clown when you compare the damage. Doesn’t even matter if you land ALL your shots, their damage will kill you faster while even missing some shots (both full resil).
If nothing happens, the last remaining bow mains gonna disappear as well, reroll mage or musket or just straight up quit. I for myself enjoyed rolling with bow (most bow fun I had in any MMO) and will try to keep the hope up (still want to see arenas very badly), but, like many others, I’m running out of hopium. 
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Im doing a side mage build because with this new 40v40 war the ranged PT is going to be removed from the board.
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my advice here, message them directly and just assume they can’t be bothered to read and forward our thoughts.
find each employee and spam them each 1 message of bow needs help and be polite as possible.
Bow will be instantly replaced with blunderbuss since they both perform well at medium range but blunderbuss is a whole other beast
I can tell you right now, bow has little to stop a blunderbuss player from winning in 1v1. the only viable thing working is running away and maintain the effective range gap… which leaves your friends behind and objectives defensless…
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also blunderbuss + GA/Hammer/IG/VG is a super strong combo, the new ice spike on PTR so just a heads up…
if it goes live the way it is currently everyone will need heavy armor to live through it
There is Semi-Confirmation that the bow is on the list for balance changes and is being looked at from a community mod in the thread “Do community mods look at posts”
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