Tried making bow players in both Alb and Hib and the damage is terrible, both times I have gone full bow spec, used a crafted bow, and been using the top arrows trying all 3 types however the damage sucks.

Any chance this is going to be fixed anytime soon? Love playing bow players but if it carries on like this I'll probably leave.

Bow damage is not nerfed. Bow procs are not working, but the core damage is just fine.
U must've done smth wrong or u are expecting too high damage output.

my lvl 35ish kobbie hunter with a braemar temp (crafted myself) and full bow spec does about 150-200 damage with a crit shot. Sometimes i can do 300.

when duoing with a dark runie friend i am constantly being out damaged.

I can only presume it gets better.

i don't play my hunter very often though.

Autotraining my ranger until lvl 48 with less than 12 in bow so (+bonus from SC), I did like 200+ dmg depending of the ennemy's stuff. I don't think it's nerfed, or without specing in bow I would do 50+, maybe 100+

Made my day, bow dmg nerfed.

Go back 2 live-servers thought.

My scouts dmg is pretty good ...

ofc it depends of to what i shoot at

i can see critical shots from 400 up to 900 with the right dmg type of arrows ofc

im not a full bow speced scout so i guess the bow dmg is pretty good

my spec atm is 50 shield 29 thrust 29 stealth 40 bow and i shoot with 320dex(dex3)



p.s. i would never say no to a small boost of bow dmg ofc

As I'm sure Dioz will attest to, going "full" bow spec does not do much if anything to improve your damage. My ranger with 35 bow hits almost for identical dmg as a ranger with 45 or even 50 bow does. The cap is raised a smidgen, but not much at all. The only reason to go over 35 bow is for rapid fire 2, more arrows for volley, or sure shot. You also gain penetrating arrow at higher levels but this almost never works.

Where you will see more dmg with bow is by increasing your dex as an alb or increase your pathfinding as a ranger to increase your dmg add and your d/q buff. I tell most Hib ranger snipers you are much better going with 48 path and 35 bow for dmg on bow rather then 45 or 50 bow and 40 path.

Bow damage is less here then it was on live, or at least it seems that way to me from memory. I believe this is because on Live more people ran w/out full templates and also you had alot of things that could increase things beyond there cap's like Dex. However, if bow dmg was increased the ranger would be nearly indestructable. Now the scout and hunter could use a lil boost I would suggest taking away 5.7 spd bows from Hib and making it look like it was on live w/ the following charts:

Range: Alb had the longest range, Hib had 2nd longest range, Mids had lowest range for bows. I cant recall the exact ranges, but I thought it was somethign like Alb was around 1750, hib was around 1600, and Mid was around 1500. I could be wrong, but the differences were similiar.

Speeds of Bow: Alb had access to a 5.7, Hib had access to a 5.5, and Mids had access to a 5.3 (I think)

This is what it was on live, but here from what I have been told all 3 realms have the same range w/ bow and 2 of the 3 realms (Hib and Alb) have access to the 5.7 spd bow.