im a musket user and a good bow user can easily kill me by getting near
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bow isnt a threat to anyone unless they have light armor and no physical resist. i run glass cannon and do maybe 1k crits to anyone in heavy. Those guys all have 15-20k hp, so whats the point of running a light dps build that doesnt do any dps.
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The problem is medium and heavy armor. Not the bow.
even to people in light, a 2k crit on a pen shot is terrible. running a 600 laz bow, does absolutely nothing.
I use light armor and have 5 piece resilient. Penetrating shot hits me for around 4k consistently. However, most of my resistant gems are for elemental, so I only have like 8% thrust resistance. Nevertheless, I find it hard to believe you are critting light armored players for 2k. The only exception would be if you’re talking about light armored healers and that’s because they can stack fortify and mitigate ~60% damage.
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Bow is a threat to bow.
I get hit between 2-7 with that. I’m a bow if course.
As an ardent musket enthusiast(who doesn’t really care for the bow… it’s the bane of my existence) I really agree it needs a buff.
two simple changes I’d like: make the knee-shot capstone inflict a stacking slow of 10% per leg hit to a max of 50%(maybe 30%?).
Make the Concussion capstone inflict 20% more damage and apply a 25% Exhaust for 5 seconds.
i feel like this could make the weapon far more relevant as a control option… particularly when paired with a spear or sword and shield.
I got hit for 5k earlier from a musket. 1.9k ~ 3.2k split damage. the amount of reward on musket is just insane for the low risk.
I did a 900 crit on light armor before. My mind was blown after i saw him roll away.
I also hit a heavy for 737 CRIT today.
I also hit some dude 5-6 times, he healed up and hit me 3 times.
Bow is garbage
to achieve that you’re looking at a 5 Con build… that’s risky
A good X can always beat another Y. Thats pretty irrelevant.
Not risky when youre 200 meters away.
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sure professor
Bow sucks, they need to remove the root after shot asap.
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Bow hit like a track into light armor. Medium armor is just to strong.
Difference betwen light and medium is +50% more defense, while medium to heavy is just 30%. WE need to lower medium defense stats for like 10-15% and see what happens.
especially with the new movement and mechanics it feels unplayable, bow/rapier used to be snappy but now it’s so sluggish.
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you absoloutely do not take 4k and even if you did, its because you are light with no phys gems and thats literally unheard of… never seen that in my life
What are you guys talking about? good bow players are highest dmg in wars, even above fire staff.
I dont get this forum sometimes.
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I can crit meat ball clusters on a control point for 3k + with a crap bow and only 300 dex. So 4k is not unreasonable for a full dex glass.
Do not mistake damage for kill count. Hitting a control point with a poison aoe/rain of arrows/pen shot is a massive amount of damage over time. It’s just not a lot of burst damage to a 14k hp tank that has crazy regen and pocket healers.