The bow is supposed to be the hardest hitting weapon in the game.
It is the hardest one to hit people with, your argument is completely invalid since you’re mentioning life/fire staves which are so many times easier to aim/hit with than a bow is. Being good with a bow means you’re good at predicting your opponent’s movement + knowing the exact flight time of your arrows from a distance you’re shooting from, and even then, sometimes arrows just go through people. I am a bow/spear user and I have real difficulties taking on a firestaff/IG user which is able to dish out as much dmg as I am with a lot less effort. What I’d like to ask you, did you win a duel against a good bow user yet while you were also using a bow? Did you win a duel vs a good mage while you were using a bow?
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Musket shots are very easy to hit because its hitscan. The moment you click your mouse to shot it will detect the hit on the enemy. The Bullet has no travel time. An Arrow has travel time so you also need to predict where the enemy will go + the arrow will drop down depending on the distance it has to fly at least for light and heavy atacks.
yeah bow is terrible agaisnt ppl that actually know what they are doing.
Nice troll
Trolls be trolling. Just because u hit hard on afk players doesnt mean bow needs a nerf. Its the weapon with the highest skill ceiling its supposed to be rewarding when u are accurate .
Suddenly picked it up? Outpost rush still consists of 30% great axe/warhammer 30% firestaff/ice, 30%lifestaff, 1% bow, rest% rest weapons
You do realize there are multiple servers, right? And I’m not saying the bow is OP but to say it’s not strong in the right hands is just a lie.
You can play extremely safe with light armor and run a hatchet or something and never be in mele range; all the while getting insane dmg off on light armor and decent on even heavy when you crit. Can find multiple videos of average looking players getting over 30 kills on some servers with bow lol
Keep in mind, I’m not asking for nerfs, and some of these players clearly aren’t wearing crit reduction but even if they were… Don’t tell me bow can’t hit hard lol
Seems fair, since he is critting 4~4,5k in heavy users and have 6k HP.
Or you want a glass cannon to hit the same as a tank? For the light users, just dodge, that’s what I do since I’m using light.
If I don’t well, I should just git gud.
muskets on opr really shines. sick range with 6k crits. 3 hits and I’m gone and I dont even see whos shooting at me.
whole discussion bout aiming bow/musket is hilarious. try to aim with fire staff bro.
Fire staff is easier to aim than bows (from a fire staff only user), FS heavy attack hit box is somewhat big.
Arrows don’t even follow the “crosshair”, they fire slightly to the left which feels weird af in combat.
Referring to the video? Yeah, I agree you should hit hard if you’re a glass cannon but half of these people seem to think bow is bad. And a majority of the glass cannons you see in pvp are in mele range and then proceed to complain about GA or something.
I don’t want the game to nerft anything really… The opposing team can just have its share of muskets or bows to counter them at range if anything.
Oh I see. The thing about bow being bad IMO it’s just cause arrow hitbox.
Sometimes it just fly inside targets and hit the wall behind them.
But the damage is fine.
Musket is the other way around, hitscan is very strong but the damage is too low (well hitscan makes it hard to balance musket, since if you raise it’s damage it will be OP, there is no middle ground… I think they should change musket QoL, like enabling recharging while dodging for example)
yeah, I agree I hear that a lot even from Bow users on my server. The hitbox is just very inconsistent, sadly.
Also, I completely agree with what you said about muskets. I feel like the damage isnt there unless the target is wearing light armor with no reduction. But then if they tune it to do very good damage vs even heavy you will have people just sitting at range sniping people. Very hard thing to balance for sure.
So many Copium Bow users spreading misinformation
1vX MAX DAMAGE MAGE PvP - New World - YouTube - FS user with full int (470 int) fireball mostly hitting 2,7k and heavy 3,7k 
new world bow pvp part 2, 450 dex 1 shot - YouTube - Bow user with full dex (450 dex) hitting up to 11k crit 
yup, ELEVEN K
Even if they were both using BIS gears, the difference would be still around 3-4k which is OK. Bow needs to aim and lead the projectile, in return Bow users can crit higher and has MORE range. FS users can spam more attack consistently, but has shorter range and Lower Damage.
lol, only heavy armor cant dodge the projectiles. compairing to fire staff musket/bow hits like melee weapon
I thought the highest skill weapon was the musket. As for it’s damage to be just slightly above a joke, you have to hit the head, and then it’s still to low
Musket shots are miles easier to land than bow is. Musket damage isn’t bad if you split dex/int with int gem. I’ve seen some 3-4k crits
and yet, most people say it’s a joke. I have 300+ dex, hit a mob on the body and did 800-900 damage. If i hit the head, it’s higher, but still a joke