I'm worried about bow changes

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:rofl: I mean its described as a nerf being that it is damage reduction. I have also read many people refer to it as nerf. IMO though it is a buff as it wasnā€™t usable before this change. I appreciate the hilarity in that statement though :rofl:

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Just my opinion, you should be a able to dominate then. if you are actually better than other players then maybe you should be able to do better in the game. Iā€™ve see. Ga/IG users at the top of the boards for months, and now that bow is fixed you should be able to beat most other players. Making the weapon harder to use is not The best idea. Also, the hit box is still smaller then a fs and the fire rate is still slower than a fs based on my quick tests that I ran yesterday.

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I donā€™t really like this argument because what do you say in 5 months?

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I agree with all of that :+1: I think it may be easier for everyone to use though. I quite like the bow being a niche thing with a high skill entry point. I suppose my debate is whether these changes make it too easy to useā€‹:person_shrugging: the damage has always been great on bow and now you can do that damage consistently. Ultimately I think it needs to come to live to really see how it sits.

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Hi Iā€™m lvl 6 bow on live. On the PTR, I picked up the bow, someone taught me how to double shot in like 2 min and I beat someone that I would consider a good melee like 5 times in a row.

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Double shot needs fixing. I think itā€™s a bug essentially. You can do this on live though. It is slightly more difficult.

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Double shot should be fixed, but bow is supposed to high single target damage, and this example means nothingā€¦ if you outplayed the other player and landed your shots you should be able to winā€¦

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All I did was roll backwards and shoot. And use evade to create more distance.

My rate of fire was fast enough that he couldnā€™t do anything.

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I was surprised to learn that itā€™s the same animation cancel as blunderbussā€™ claw shot animation cancel.

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There is plenty he could do lol I doubt he was this great melee player like you say.

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There was nothing.

I said he was good, he was.
You donā€™t even know what weapons he was using, how could you suggest that there was plenty he could do?

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Exactly, lmao you didnā€™t give us anything just said that a ā€œgoodā€ melee player lost to you with the bow. Itā€™s a bs example

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I wouldnā€™t know about that, but yeah it is relatively easy to do. It is a bug though as it bypasses the cooldown between shots.

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You basically shoot, claw, shoot and do a ton of dmg in like 1 second.

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Madness :rofl:

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Itā€™s an anecdotal example, not a BS one. Donā€™t try to devalue my argument lol.

Basically all Iā€™m saying is that bow is easy now. People who are actually good at it will be gods.

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Well then call me Zeus!!!

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Did you ever played Bow in PvP?

I donĀ“t think soā€¦ Heavy attak is close to useless there.

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Canā€™t wait for the yt vids

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i dont mind if the double shot gets fixed/nerfed but the hitbox change is absolutely necessary because its actually a hitbox now. we had bow shots going through peopleā€™s armpits 1/5 times and people would literally move left and right and make the hitbox nonexistent. no other weapon in the game has this problem

most of the ppl playing ptr arent exactly the best players lets be honest AND no one has 5 resil. so obviously bow is gonna look op from their perspective. everyoneā€™s opinion about bow is gonna change again on the live version when it takes double the amount of arrows to kill someone than it did on ptr. 90% of the ppl on ptr dont even have refreshing toast like cmon man thereā€™s no comparison to live at all atm

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