And I disagree , topics like this make AGS team nerf weapons . This isn’t wealthy for the game. Edit : if you want to advocate for something , ask to nerf mortal empowerment and not bow , People do the same with musket @Kippp and his boys probably rack over 150kills+ in any defensive war
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AGS does not listen to or care about this thread mate.
They, very blatantly, largely balance by metrics. Of which even then they do a mediocre job at.
Last Dev video:
AGS: We definitely overtuned bow.
Also AGS in literally the same video: We think bow is the 3rd “worst” (<–whatever that means) weapon in PvP and PvE so we’re buffing it further.
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Hmm weird, because every bigger nerf came after feedback from the community.
Leaves link to video for proof. Makes video private so no one can see it.
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bow is definitely overtuned dont let anyone tell u otherwise, anyone that says its not is a full time capstar
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Bow is strong but it wasnt buffed, it was hitting just as high if not higher before the perk update. You really need physical aversion/resilent and more thrust dmg protection. Also a lot of bows run split gems to counter your thrust protection. Purifying toast can help deal with bleeds burns and poisons. Also move around, zig and zag make it an annoying shot. Bow players like to hit easy targets
If anything your lucky bows abilities got destroyed bcuz pre patch youd be staggered by pen shot. If you still struggle against bows maybe you should consider the “git gud” strat.
A blind man can hit anyone with Bow right now. The most easy hitbox …
Totally noob friendly 
this dude absolutely abuses bow rapier rn obviously.
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Someone posted a video of a bow hitting a tank in War for 10k lol
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bow is definitely still OP probably more than before… i am not sure what developers did but this weapon needs to get double checked… NEEDS A NERF
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Omg I’m so sorry, didn’t noticed that.
Changed it now.
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Go full thrust resist lmfao, bows hits like a noodle unless its a heavy arrow with vorpal+enchanted.
Yeah they split their damage but just knock off as much thrust as you can. a full thrust kit is 52% I think so just a little over cap. No.2 you are a melee in the open by yourself, bow wins… and it should thats its niche. A melee has to play with a team/stack or at the very least have a healer or take a more sneaky approach. If you want to learn how to play assassin look up Whelps. By far one of the best at what he does, spooks even me and I am a dex player since day dot with fairly high awareness and game sense.
This is the most cringe thing I read in this too btw…
Pick up the bow lets see how many arrows you land at 100m.
Maybe once a month in one game… overreaction much? just leave and re-queue no cooldown now if you are going to be that much of a baby.
Actually play the other class (for a long period) with proof and understanding on how they play and then how you played and countered everything. Cause all I see is someone that made a poor game choice to walk in the open with no one to help.
Instead of crying in the forums review your clips/vods and see what you could have done to improve, weather that be positioning, timing, execution. I am sick and tired of forum babies complaining “NERF” “NERF” “NERF”. Skill is a term learn it please for the health of the game…
to add to this no and I mean no bow hits for 7k unless you have zero resilient…
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You also have sundering riposte on you - could be weapon too (24%)
You are also in a 1v2 situation vs two bows. You are hatchet + spear (no mobility)
you also only have 8.5k HP thats what comes with being glass canon (I am a long time musket i think its a fair trade off)
what did you think was going to happen???
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Feedback? You meant the outcry for all the crying mobs out there jumping nerf wagon “nErF tHe bOw” who return to do the same shit-posting because they die to bow despite the nerf?
At this point what you folks ask for is turning bow into tickle-weapon, aka. the feather.
Damage is drastically reduced now and it takes all gear buffs to line up and get that 6K miracle shot. And with the proper gear you are going to get tickled anyway. Maybe if you were to run with more than 8.5K life and fight 1v1 instead of 1vX with bows landing free shots on you - do you expect people will let you duel in the open in OPR or War and be like “oh no, let’s wait for them to finish”?
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Bow expert here :'] i’ve just detected a clown (OP) playing with one of the most broken melee weapon which is spear crying about something being “gamebreaking” 
Sooo let’s start boys !
50 constit player with horrible gems on his gear , get rending debuff , and in execution HP pool (30%hp) is surprised to be hit by big numbers… KEKW
You got rend debuff by riposte +14%-24% dmg
3 max stack +30%
bow passive
Execution on low hp players by 20%
:']
this one , it can be another bow players that shooted you
20% if it’s headshot
+He play lazarus bow (HAHAHAHAHAHA) +12% vicious dmg … and oh WAIT you play 5 resil 50 cons // Base weapon bow crit modifier is 1.3 +0.12 = 1.42 crit modifier and you only remove 0.25 instead of 0.35 … how “gamebreaking” oh no 
And it can be mortal empowerment , which is giga broken atm
6k shot on a guy which is LOW hp without the extra +10% resilent on 150 constit , which is rended , with HORRIBLE gems and is playing only 50 constit , light players etc etc
Holy fuck yes
on a serious note , the way that 90% of bow players play are useless … full statpad shooting random arrow , dealing random aoe dmg , that’s not what win you a war/duel/opr
And rly most of bow players nowadays are just ppl rerolling to bow for OPR , they don’t know how to play , how to counter them : Thrust/onyx protection , they all play with opal gems on weapon so … kekw and ofc if you’re a light player in this opr meta full of bow and is not playing x5 resil with 150 const and without atleast -15% thurst dmg then you’re trolling hard
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AMEN 
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Haven’t you seen this video? Its a lazarus hitting for 6k damage… You can say against it
And tell me why I should go full thrust, just to get destroy by mage gems bows even more and every other melee weapon that doesn’t use thrust.
I already wrote in my thread that even if I had 150 con it wouldn’t have made such a big difference. So why are you using non sense arguments?
Yeah because 6k dmg should be completely normal, but when every little meta weapon got nerfed and nerfed and nerded over and over again. Now since bow is gamebreaking op it are rhe bow players who say now “its skill”, stop wirh nerfes. You guy’s really make a clown out of you with writing so much around the fact that the damage is just waaaaaaaay to high.