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the funniest part about this video is another bow guy hitting him for 1k dmg while he hit’s for 5k+
just because 99% of noobs play bow and do not deal significant dmg, doesn’t mean the weapon isn’t overpowered 
He has 5 con on this build, musket can do this more consistently from a safer distance. Any weapon hits hard with 500 stat points invested in it.
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Perhaps melee on a back hit with rouge perk. But no melee player is going to go 500 strength when every lobby is filled with bows and muskets doing massive damage. Bows and muskets have so many ways to gain empower unlike the other ranged weapons I’d argue only the bow can hit this hard, not even the musket. I also find it ridiculous you are even defending the damage output, it shouldn’t matter if the person he is shooting is geared or not geared that kinda damage output is unhealthy for the game. New and old players alike hate the ranged mega and having players just get 1 shot from who knows where is what makes people quit.
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so thank god for bows 
Yes thank goodness for every opr lobby have 15-20 bows/musket. Thank goodness for every opr lobby to be a 1000-30 due the algorithm putting 15 bows on one team all refusing to play the objective. Thank goodness.
Because to viably play bow you need to play fairly close. So no truly viable bow build is running less than 150 con. This build is a meme being utilised by a very good player. I would equally defend a melee build if I thought someone was trying to create a narrative around an entertaining video.
You’ll notice even when ranged was in a bad spot I was not complaining about anything. I actually in many cases argued against bow buffs. I recently spoke against someone complaining about hatchet. I have defended magic weapons plenty too!
I see all these complaining threads as the same thing you see and that is someone who blames everything else rather than working on their own performance. I’m not trying to be mean either that is all I hear when I read these threads…
Melee are especially in a great spot this patch. I’ve only just started to get used to these changes and still find outnumbered fights very difficult.
What weapons do you play out of interest? Trying to understand where you biased sits…
Life Staff begs to differ with the broad statement.
Might hit hard against lv 1 Lost monsters.
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This is patently false.
I have mained a musket since day one. My best gear is tailored for the musket and my musket is 625 enchanted and attuned.
I saw that video (made my own post early this morning) and purchased some cheese purple gear, not even 600. Farmed me the wardens bow, closest thing I could get without spending gold, dumped all my points into dex (which is normally a 300 dex/200 int set up), had ZERO food as the food I normally run is 24 int 16 dex.
And I was literally critting mobs for 2x more than I do with the musket. I have been testing this all morning and in every single example the bow greatly out performs. I am doing more damage per shot and damn near getting off 2x as many attacks for every 1 on the musket.
That’s pretty pedantic dude! A broad statement does require a reasonable mind to interpret it. Yes it was broad though…
There is a great deal of reasons why bow does more damage at a lower stat investment.
A great many reasons I cannot bothered to explain… I’m sure as you have been testing you have likely realised many of them though.
If you haven’t take it to PvP 
Debating people on forums always goes the same way and it’s rare anyone wants to have a reasonable discussion where they enter with the potential of having their mind changed. That might not be you, but I am tired of it tbh dude.
I was just pointing out using a meme build created for entertainment to create a separate narrative is a bit disingenuous and I wasn’t a fan of it.
Enjoy bow
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I did test it in PVP and the results were similar, easier to hit targets and more damage at a higher rate of fire.
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There is nothing “meme” about a build like this allowing players to go 50+/0 deaths in an OPR, meanwhile ruining the game for countless others because there is no counterplay. You can’t counter a one shot build.
The developers should not allow builds like this to exist. End of discussion.
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End of discussion.
I watched his stream today playing this build and he died a lot. A lot. 5 con bow is going to die a lot. Did I say a lot. Never got even remotely close to 50 kills.
Full glass cannon build that can die if melee reach him and brainlet melee clicks x2 LBM without any aiming.
Please dude, bow is the ones of build that requires some kind of skill and aim when game is full of melee brainlets that has only spam LBM+CDS and it’s much easier to kill anyone.
- After patch there is hundreds of ppl that play OPR and has not even 600 expertise (I know it scale to 600 but still pepega sets and perks against stacked players)
+You can wear gray weapon and if you spend enough time recording, you can still do video with osom highlights to make you look like a pvp god.
Btw musket with bis perks 300 Dex + 150 int and int gem will do more damage on a light attack than a bow with 450 Dex with an opal and bis perks.
Musket is approx: 4656
Bow is approx: 3087
This is purely a mathematical conclusion and trump’s any anecdotal experience you can share.
That’s ignoring the fact it can do it from further away far more consistently and without including mortal empowerment.
What you are seeing on arrows video is the opening shot, suprise attack, aim true, long range and onyx gem combined to make a crazy number. After that first shot it will always do less damage than a musket per shot.
I personally think it is pretty balanced on paper, it’s cool if no one agrees. However these are the facts.
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