Yeah… I´m fighting hard to not put my bow away…
Honestly, to win any 1v1 fight with a bow… you need to play perfectly… while GA, WH, WA, users just need to bang his head against the keyboard to kill you.
Not even mentioning Muskets, that will zoom aim your head and hit scan you… while you try to get a little closer or calculate pixels so your arrow can have a 1% chance to hit the guy 2miles away.
So, if you are doing well with a bow, congrats, you are a great skillfull player.
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I won’t do it. I will quit the game if they do not fix it, but i won’t switch weapons.
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Bow ligh attack does not do less dmg than FS.
Also root in place after auto attack is same for any other range weapon with projectiles.
Same with speed - you can dodge fs auto attack to. No problem.
Only bad part of bow is fact that projectiles are to small and skills kinda not that good. Especialy passives.
do you know there is aim before shoot from bow and musket? yes there is root in every ranged weapon but bow and musket double root from aim and from root after shoot its self, but lucky for other range weapon except hachet they had bigger hit box, and for musket they had hit scan,
please try bow first in pvp, the biggest problem from bow not its damage but hit box and arrow speed that make bow suck right now except for pve
Arrow speed should be adjusted up by little bit agree. Same with hit box. But all other issues are same for all ranged weapons.
And you know you have to aim any ranged? Only difference is all ranged have different auto attacks system. Bow/musket you can decide when to shoot, magic weapons you cant.
when you aim your movement speed slower than other weapon much slower and you have window time when aim from normal view to aim view its already disadvantage
Any weapon with ADS (aim down sight) has 2 additional animations (entry and exit) they have to wait through on top of the slow you get after attacks, which is why the jump shot with bow was so strong because you could cancel the exit animation, meaning the arrow fired at the start of the exit ADS animation and the player received no movement penalty.
I have just accepted that I need to play into the aoe aspects of the bow if I wanna hit people haha but I’m not doing bad. Consistently perform in oprs and dungeons.
I actually think they should nerf the aoe if that makes them more willing to buff the mobility and speed of single arrows, and they need to add armor penetration so that the bow does damage against heavy armor, but it doesn’t need a flat damage buff. It feels bad to only have an aoe style weapon on a weapon like bow. Literally if they just add better mobility- so remove root after shots/ reduce it by at least 50% and allow us to dodge cancel out of shots including rapid shot, add armor penetration so the bow does damage to heavy armor, and increase the arrow speed - so make light shots the speed of heavy shots and increase heavy by 30%, the weapon will be viable again.
As the hardest/slowest range weapon, you would think the risk-reward would be better.
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Yep, switched to the creeping recurve about a week ago. It works but I hate that it’s come to this.
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Might have to pull mine out and give it a shot. I’ve been trying to roll a good Lego with keenly jagged on it for pvp but not had much luck.
I need to get bow’s gs to 600 still lol, but I’m super close now. I rolled a Lazarus bow with keen and keenly jagged and I think refreshing, and it would’ve basically been BIS but it was 589 gs. SMH. It takes forever to increase gs through opr alone, and I finally broke down and started running dungeons, but I’m hoping to get another one like this one.
Lazarus bow /= Lazarus Watcher Bow.
Lazarus Bow is a named item which has a unique perk combo that is considered BiS for a bow with Keen Vicious and Enchanted.
Lazarus Watcher Bow has perks and stats rolled randomly like a Defiled Bow or an Ironwood Bow.
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Devs, please reduce the root, increase arrow speed, and add armor penetration in March patch for bow. these changes will at least keep the bow viable and make people want to keep playing. Many of my friends are going to quit and bow users are talking about leaving across these forums, please take a look at these suggestions and add these in.
I still think bow is a great weapon, and AGS don´t have to change nothing on it…
I only problem I see with bow is that ALL OTHER WEAPONS ARE BETTER AND EASIER TO USE.
While you need to aim and shoot in the exact pixel, FireStaff just need to hit on your zip code and will kill you… not to mention they hit way faster…
Arrows should go faster, and FIRE and ICE should have a slower casting speed… AT least same as bow, since it´s much easier to hit with staffs
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agree
You had me in the first half ngl but the bow is the hardest and least rewarding weapon in the game right now.
the bow need to great again
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