Name tags arnt centred either so in blobs it can be hard to holit people or in heavy brush
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Headshot do less dmg than body shot when people have resil on everything 
actually both of the lifestaffs complaints are true. its op in pvp but has major design issues that are hard to fix with how they have designed the games targeting system
Its not just light armored people getting chunked by bows. Im in full heavy with Diamond gems in my gear, ive had bows hit me for half of my health in one instance of damage
What a crock. if Bow is so good go play bow. It wont happen. Bow is high skill cap and is very difficult to hit anything at range or moving. I am currently melee and played bow all of 1-60.
yup clear this is a troll now.
But this isnât a flaw of the bow, but your armor. Phys & Elemental def doesnât affect pvp, you could run around naked and still be hit with the same damage. The only thing that matters atm are gems.
Well you have hit 1 arrow / 10 arrows on a target moving in a straight line lol. Do that in a real battle where the enemy doesnt move in a straight line and most likely went for the first time into war after hitting lvl 60 with trash gear. Anyone who wears at least the PvP gear would not take that much damage at least because of resilent perkâŚdoesnt matter if he is glas canon build or not. This guy was clearly not geared at al.
Nobody that seriously plays the game would say that bow deals bad damage but you can definitely have more and way easier input in battles with ice/fire or great axe and the abilities are so much easier to hit. Also as your youtube title says " 400 dex" well i think its fair to deal decent amount of damage but doing that you will die from 2-3 hits yourself. I cant see any problem here and the bow is far away from being top tier.
Btw. this video of yours : 400 Dexterity End Game Bow PvP | New World - YouTube shows the real state of bow in a âreal battleâ 
You got lucky there because the enemy didnt push you and two hit you there though but we can clearly see how many shots you miss with the bow and whats the real damage is on kinda geared people.
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Yet I still kill most bow players at mid range with my musket 1v1
Bow hits hard right now⌠Iâm just jealous, because if my musket hit that hard, Iâd be making kids quit this game.
Yesterday I unsubscribed in this topic that everything is normal with bows.
Now karma has overtaken me 
I received 4.5k damage from an archer in the face, despite the fact that I play in heavy armor, have 200 con and 586 GS.
I also noticed that there were many times more archers in the Outpost Rush mode.
well if you have heavy armor and 200 con then after one lucky 4,5k hit you still can easily take a fight because enough HP left right?
What are you smoking? Have you tried to land a shot in PVP with the bow? Fire staff projectile is like 20x larger. Half the time arrows fly through the player. Least forgiving weapon in the game with only one good dps skill outside of war. Also fire staff is bugged so pillar procs 2-3 times and can crit like crazy. People in this thread are out of their mind.
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I agree fully. Reading most of the things i can clearly say that a lot of people here have clearly no PvP exeprience or real experience playing the bow at all.
Right. I wrote about 200 con to indicate the passivity of this in +20% armor.
However, I think that the bow gives out a lot of damage. Most likely, in the next patch, archers will have their damage cut by 30%.
If the bow wasnât a dream now, so many bows wouldnât have appeared on my server in the last 2 days
When 4-5 archers in a team on the Outpost Rush, it is not much more annoying than when there are 10-12 of them.
Hitting your arrows is like 5x more harder than hitting anything with other weapons and if you want to hit decent damage numbers with the bow then you are living in danger to die from 2-3hits because you have to put an insane mount of attripute points in dex and most likely need to use light gear for the damage boost . If something needs a nerf then its fire/ice and great axe. There is barely anyone playing bow atm compared to fire/ice/great axe and people know why
To kill an archer in two strikes by a melee attacker, you need to get close to him first.
Donât forget about the range. The distance from which the bow can hit the target is much higher than for the staff of fire.
Do you know what most archers do? They keep at maximum distance or stand on a mountain and cause huge damage while being safe from melee attackers.
There is no smoke without fire.
If everything was fine with the archers, there wouldnât be so many messages in this post.
I am sure that the developers will not bypass the bow in the near future.
I guess you should just start the game and equip a bow and see how hard it is to hit something when you stay at maximum distance. The moment you can provide me a video hitting your arrows on maximum distance in a real PvP battle i will agree with you. Thats not gonna happen though.
The moment you try that a mage will catch up with you and deal the same amount of damage to you but with easy AOE spells that they can hit easily.
Do not overestimate them. Most archers do not play with precision aiming at a distance, they just shoot into a crowd of players.
In any case, itâs not as bad as it was with hatchets, but the bow still became more popular than it was before.
Time will tell.
30% damage cut? now that would turn most archer to Ice Gauntlet/ Fire Staff (since they are leagues better on mid/close range combat duhâŚ)
Itâs a fact that you as melee user would rather face 5 archer than 1 ice gauntlet anytime anywhere.
I do not even know. The ice glove is more infuriating with AoE damage. 1 on 1 with magicians is somehow easier to handle in my opinion. IMHO