Bow on PTR is kinda

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This is true, it is not just a bow problem.

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PTR makes damage hard to judge. You can’t stack resil like most people do on live. Not being able to character copy is really dumb. The RNG gear you get from boxes makes it really hard to test a lot of things.

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Yeah. Why?

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My personal impressions:

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will u still need to jump cancel to get max dps? or is it fluid enough that u don’t have to

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Lol and it begins.

Who wants to bet the bow as in PTR now won’t make it?

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While I agree with it being mechanically smoother, which is great. I think that in the coming weeks, we may be noticing some meta shifts. especially with it pairing so well with the rapier and stamina managment becoming more important. We’ll see how it goes.
You basically need a kite shield with sturdy at least to really survive an arrow bombardment(because thats what it feels like with the new fire rate + “double shotting”. Shields used to be a counter that melee could use to close distance. not really anymore.

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Probably not, melee is gonna cry about it as usual. But yet to see a GA nerf… the bow does feel better to use now, the crippling nerf to the stam regen will make it clunky still. But overall the bow does feel like its in a good place though. Which is nice, since its been trash for so long.

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You mean you didn’t see the the(very much needed) grav well nerf + roots nerf? What are you talking about?

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its still pretty strong regardless of the nerf…

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I didn’t even get a gear box lol. I had to test naked.

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There are already people calling it op. I expect another undeserved 20% nerf.

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With bow buffs my gut is telling me bow is going to be very strong in 3v3. It will be up to the FS players to keep us in check.

GA IG Musket will still be far superior in OPR and wars. I think its a fair trade

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Its hard to say that because nobody really has proper perks that reduce damage. I don’t think I have ever faced a guy that whipped out his shield to close distance on me honestly. Even if he did he wouldn’t close distance walking that slow.

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if you get hit by it. today i iframed a grav, wrecking ball, and 2 heavy attacks with 2 dodges while rooted.

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no see what you do is get good at reacting so that you can run at them and just tap rclick when they shoot. You do this so that you can regain stam as you go, but with the regen delay and how fast the bow can pump out arrows now…

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Well to be fair, the regen delay affects me from keeping distance too =)

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There are pillars inside of the arena that people like to run in circles around. So I cant imagine it will be very difficult to do that until the circle of fire comes and the bow is forced into close combat, but i’ve seen some bow/rapiers that are super good even in that situation.

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in most situations we are already far apart @-@ at least we start that way.

plus rapier for stam and distance,

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isn’t bow the highest skill cap weapon? there should be more reward for playing it well