Nerf the Bow OP right now

GS 510, Weapon Level 13.

Well, that’s not possible. Last I checked, 510 weapons don’t drop in that low a zone, and the crafting for a 510 has a set level range outcome.

Not to join the toxic crowd, but yeah, just seems like you’re complaining about it because you got beat.

Bullshit. Armor is important. Numbers are important. Resilient is important. 600 gs much better than 501 gs of same type. Test it by yourself, liar.

well most likely you are facing the bad ones, any “good” ice gauntlet user will make you stuck with ice shower which make your character float by a bit while shoving ice to your face via aoe and normal attack until you die

Perhaps. It is also possible that not all archers play fair. It is quite possible that there are some hacker programs for automatic sight eyeliner (autoaim). There has already been a precedent with cheating software for a musket.

even the heavy atacks of ice gauntlet/fire staff are extremely easy to hit and deal an insane amount of damage. same for the light atacks. The fire rate is out of this world too.

that’s because every magic weapon has huge hitbox since are designed for mid/close range combat. Meanwhile, both bow and musket were designed for mid/long/sniper range, yet these two somewhat lacking on both mechanic and minor problem like bad crosshair.

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new world archers r def obnoxious

If you’re getting hit by Pillar of Fire you’re probably AFK. The entire cast animation for the spell is standing still, waving your arm in the air and saying “HEY EVERYONE IM GOING TO NUKE THIS SPOT DONT STAND HERE”.

Anyway, bow damage is pretty insane. My highest fireball in OPR w/ 580 staff + 300 int is like 2k. Most of my heavy attacks vs heavy armor is in the 800s.

I’ve been hit for 7-8k by a bow more than a few times.

nope. the worst weapon is definitely hatchet right now. i will put a video tonight about hatchet damages.i’m level 60, i hit 350 damage with light attack to one of the invasion boss yesterday with 302 str and tier 5 faction hatchet (it has +930 damage with %8.9 bonus for light and heavy attacks) but i forgot recording it. so i will record tonight at invasion.

There you go, was already tested.

We tested it yesterday on EU Central panchaia, in duels. No difference between 500+gs and 100gs items.

And Musket is so OP that you forgot it even exists :rofl:

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You should compare what is comparable.
With the same stats ratio 300 dex/300 int and vs the same target :wink:
In fact the heavy of bow take 2 times longuer than Fire/Icestaff.
In fact the hitbox of arrows are smaller than projectiles of Firestaff/Icegauntlet by far
In fact Arrows travel time is slower than projectiles of Firestaff/Icegauntlet by far
In fact Arrows are subject to bulletdrop.

So I’m in light faction gear and i take often 2k8 - 3k ( i presume from 580 firestaff quest ) from heavy attack of firestaff and 4k5 - 5k from heavy attack in the head (notice that happen to me like 2 times in maybe 100+ outpost rush) from bow.
With 320 dex and 580 quest bow vs faction light gear my dmg in head for heavy attack is around 4k5-5k. This dommage is under the pvp food of outpost rush by the way.

So for an heavy attack taking 2x more time to prepare, harder to hit because of the travel time, the bullet drop, the smallest hit box projectiles of the game and the fact we have to hit the head for deal this dommage. Do you think this is OP to deal around two times the dommage of critical firestaff heavy attack for something taking like 10x more skill to land and 2x more time to prepare ?

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You’ve clearly never used the bow. No prediction? Hitbox is hella small my guy and arrows have travel time. In what world does that not require prediction and angle adjustment?

This thread boggles my mind. Yeah, a bow HEAVY crit can hit 5-6k. Meanwhile in the time it takes for a bow to charge to heavy a firestaff can hit you for 3 2k lights with a fat hitbox… Lmfao. What’s the difference.

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I’ve main bow since launch but the last patch has made pve, not just pvp, much less enjoyable with all the stuttering/desync involved when you make it on a mob’s aggro table. Then there’s the hitbox bugs too where I my arrows would pass through my targets even with the elemental tracers intersecting with the models.

The most enjoyable part of using bow is setting up your best shots but…

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You’re obviously making half of this up. Fire staff doesn’t get headshot, first of all. Second, my absolute highest hit with a heavy attack crit w/ 303 INT is 3400. And that’s under perfect conditions where I have all of my empowerment buffs (one of which requires me to be < 50% hp).

There is no way you’re getting hit for 5k from FS heavy attacks.

Bow users are consistently top 3 in every OPR I’ve done. They don’t seem to have any complaints. Would you like to ask them for advice?

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people crying over every class after getting ass kicked,nerf g.a, nerf heal ,nerf bow nerf,nerf fire staff, maybe you cry babies shouldnt play at all.

If this were the case there wouldn’t be a meta, and yet here we are…

If you don’t think the bow is op you’re not using it correctly. all i see here is a lot of bow users trying to pretend bow is fine.

The bow would be op if there were no counters to it, but there are many. It has the ability to be strong, sure… but if someone with a g.axe or hammer gets on you, you’re done. If someone is wearing heavy armor, it tickles. It’s much harder to land a shot on a moving target with the bow than it is with even a fire staff.

All the to say, if you’re getting rekt by a bow, there are things you could do to prevent it that you’re not. Don’t let the bow user just hang in the back and shoot freely. Get in their face and punish them. (Just don’t run in a straight line to do it)

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