I haven’t tested the damage per second with the FS or IG, so I don’t know how far off they are. I know the IG has significantly lower DPS than the bow, but has more utility, so I don’t know. The FS, on the other hand, I haven’t tested, so I don’t know how far behind it is.
By the way, I just headshoted someone in OPR for over 6k with a heavy attack from the bow, like wtf. The musket caps out around 3k headshots with no abilities.
Idk when I think of dps, I don’t think of FS/IG. IG alone can dps someone down if they get the root in the ice storm, but FS is more of a burst damage. I can see flamethrower being dps but I don’t run that. I can normally burst someone from full health to nothing if I land my combo with FS. But once my burst is up, if I don’t kill them they can heal back to full. When I think of dps, I do think of bow because you’re putting down a lot of damage per second which is what actually counters healing, as long as you can land those shots. You need damage against heals, anyway you want to put it and I would love for them to keep multiple ways to do that. Sacreds tick between 900-1200 depending on your perks, so you need something that can do more than 900 damage within that tick repeatedly in order to take them down.
Muskets can definitely dps people down in shooters stance but outside of that and the extra shot after a dodge, it shoots too slow for me to consider it real dps. Awesome damage though to light armor users.
If you hit someone for over 6k with a headshot, they most likely had light armor and terrible perks. You can’t just look at the damage you do with bow, there’s lots of factors that can play into that. There could be a different person that builds correctly and has the right armor perks/gems and you do 4k instead of 6k.
BB, Bow, Musket, VG have no block
Rekt lol
Dont know what are u talking. ITS BOW META ! Im 625GS PVP Gear mage 1500h in game and my friend voidbend bow 600gs with 400h kills me 1vs1… Yeah maybe he is pro player right ?! Bow needs massive damage reduction -5%. Light attacks cast time must be slowed by 10%. Range must be -10% And maybe everything gonna be balanced 
I’m 2600h in game 625GS Bow/gear and some mages beat me. Just cause you lose a 1v1 doesn’t mean it needs nerfed. There’s plenty of builds that counter other builds. What abilities did he have? What abilities did you have? There’s lots of factors that play into it. Maybe you just got out played by him? I’ve seen plenty of bow users that do pretty bad. It’s not like you can just pick up bow and kill everyone. If you think so, I invite you to pick up a bow and try.
You are feeling so strong with the op bow right ?hahah just a mouse with OP weapon 
And when they balance the bow you will stop playing its clear.
I was 1 month in hospital to find out outpost rush is like counterstrike 1.6 now.
Can someone give me a short explanation why bow is so overused now?
Dude I can say that about anything in this game. How many months did people melee ball around? Everyone was using GA/Warhammer. I see 5 man musket teams go into OPR and target same people and they just die. I’ve seen OPRs where there’s like 5-6 healers and nobody dies and games over within 5 minutes cuz nobody can stop the team with more healers. I see A LOT of VG/IG getting slotted into wars because of how “broken” oblivion is as others put it. They wont even slot that many dex players into war right now. So tell me, how is this counterstrike 1.6 and bow is overused? Because you see 4-6 bow users in OPR? I mean at this point just remove musket and bow. You guys apparently just want melee pvp and don’t want others to have fun playing what they like. I think a lot of people are trying out bow because of how much everyone is saying it’s OP. Like swordz… probably doesn’t know how to build right and is always out of position and dies by bow guy and then he’s like “Ban Bow. Too OP”. Nah man, just learn how to play passive sometimes and stop being aggressive 100% of the time and getting yourself killed. These are the same people that die then go… “Where’s my healer? Why didn’t they heal me??” Umm… because you’re overextended and they cannot get to you. Again, when I play my melee build, I have 0 problems with bow users. Then again, I build correctly.
4-6 bow user are not the problem but sometimes they are 15 or more and i just wanna now why?
Was there any buff since i was away that gives player a bow drive?
And i dont know why you get offended by my question. Did i hit a nerve?
I just saw to many bow users compared with before and asked why. Thats it.
Absolutely agree on not nerfing the bow. Please buff all other weapons instead. Bow now feels like a normal smooth and fun weapon compared to all others.
If it was only 4 then people would not be complaining but my last matches were 15 ranged weapons, 10 bows, plus other 5 ranged weapon, two melees and 2 healers, everyone just refuse to play melee in opr for how op is being a bow with rapier is literally just spam arrows to clumps and people die so quick, that’s why you don’t see more melees, to run melees you need good healers, to run range people you don’t even need healers just rapier so yeah this game is crazy unbalanced.
Yes undo the greataxe nerfs lets go! Im gonna have so much fun again!
Bow is op because you can deal insane dps while still having 200con.
Especially in comparison to other ranged weapons like the musket.
Bow deals reliable insane dps with pinpoint accuracy on huge range.
Either nerf its dmg, its hitbox or best approach imo: Increase the attribute requirements. You wanna deal dmg? ok but then you need to play 400-500 dex and be a glass cannon like a regular ranger.
This would make the bow beeing punishable again. Having 200con means you are never getting bursted.
hahahaha you are really drunk
BOW was the most balanced class in the game before the update and they ruined it
The hitbox is so big that I can close my eyes and shoot someone. and like minigun
disproportionately strong damage to these buffs
It is the work of fools to say otherwise. Bow is ruining the game right now my friends that I go to OPR with every day now only participate in WAR and they are SO RIGHT
if there are still poor people who think that bow is weaker than before, please watch this video and understand that the problem is caused by their own incompetence
Bonus xDDD
there is no such thing as balance in the game right now…
If AGS does not solve this, they will have to add this to the big mistakes they have made…
and i forgot to add
The actor who plays Bow with the rapier is literally immortal
Tons of haste skill… 360 stun… free dodge +20 stamina xd hahahahi laugh at this silly Skill the most xdd… and the ability to teleport to 12 meters hahahahahahaha…
@Zelme …
2400 armor, 5 resilient, full onyx. A bow hit me for 2.3k while I had 40% fortify.
FS easily beats bow in range? Yea you’re trolling… Maybe if the FS user “zig zags” his way up close and flamethrower you to death… otherwise if they both stay medium range bow has a faster auto attack speed and higher damage. You’re trolling.
Video proof? Like just saying these things provides no evidence of it actually happening. You guys complain when another weapon can damage you, but you’re fine with the cc combo of WH that completely destroys some light armor users if they can’t get a dodge off.
Scroll up to my video and see what FS can do. I’m not going to discuss this anymore, I’m just going to provide video proof of what I am trying to say. My guess is you aren’t a FS or Bow main and if you are you haven’t went against a FS user that is good.