I normally start from hiding with a heavy attack, snipe, poison injection then weapon swap and charge in.

The Bow Heavy attack is unique among the weapon types because it takes longer to fully draw and does not fire automatically. With a damage reporting add-on another oddity is revealed: most of the Heavy Attack's damage is loaded when the attack is no longer considered Light.

Using my own damage numbers as an example, a Light Attack deals 1,000 damage, and a fully drawn Heavy Attack deals 4,000 damage. However if I draw the bow just enough to make it a partial Heavy Attack, the damage is 3000. Partial Heavy Attacks take half to a third as much time to draw as full ones, so these are preferable to a rotation, though still create a pause in your attacks.

In general, you want to open with a Heavy Attack rather than insert one in the middle of a weave due to the draw time. But if you can master the timing of partial Heavy Attacks, it should be possible to add them to your weave.

A couple general combos with the Bow I use (not using partial Heavy Attacks because I have discovered them recently):

Heavy Attack > Snipe > Light Attack > Poison Arrow (at max range the Snipe will land last due to travel time)
Heavy Attack > Poison Arrow > Light Attack > Snipe > Light Attack > Poison Arrow
Light Attack > Poison Arrow > Light Attack > Poison Arrow > Light Attack > Poison Arrow > ...

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chevalierknight wrote: »

I use camo with snipe as my opener

Heavy Attacks have higher sneak attack multipliers than abilities.

i.e. An Uppercut from stealth deals 18k damage (in PvE) while a (Two-handed) Heavy Attack deals 24k.

Iv two shot people from sneak with snipe heavy does more damage hmmm ill have to give it a try

So heavy bow attack or Lethal Arrow from Stealth? Lethal Arrow seems to do more damage for me.