Long Shots is now a pointless box outside of Cyrodiil

Rylana · June 2014

With the reduction in range of Snipe to 35 meters, there is now no bow attack that meets the required range of 40+ for the long shots passive to trigger its maximum bonus.

Not even the Eagle Eye set bonus of 4 meters will trigger max longshots on any bow skill.

Zenimax you need to drop the range requirement on Long Shots to 35 meters (28 would be better really)

Edit to add: I am specifically talking about the range where you actually get the full 12% bonus (6 with one point in the skill). Its 40 meters, which was only reachable with snipe before. Now we are not going to be able to achieve our rated bonus with any shot. In fact any shot under 28 meters actually yields HALF of the bonus rated.

Since the skill ranges up from 0 to max distance, the threshold for "12% bonus* needs to be reduced to at least 35, better to be 28.

Thanks.

Rylana · June 2014

edited out fail moment

Arsenic_Touch · June 2014

Yeah... I don't know what they were thinking with that change. Like bow attacks were even remotely OP to require such a nerf. They should've reduced the range so it affected all bow skills and basic attacks evenly, not nerf it so it only works in cyrodill. I was actually happy that they were finally giving the bow the attention it needed and they go and do this x.x

onlinegamer1 · June 2014

Um... what?

Long Shots does not have to be 40m+ to get 12%.

12% bonus starts at 35m.

dsalter · June 2014

The max effect of long shot peaks at 35m apparently.
might be wrong but maybe this smaller range will allow for better scaling

McUsher · June 2014

Ok, so then the patchnotes are a bit confusing?
It should read then

Long Shots: This passive ability’s bonus is now also* applied to enemies greater than 40 meters away.

*Inserted by me...
????

TheGrandAlliance · June 2014

Either case... as a bow user I didn't need any of these changes nonetheless.

Volla · June 2014

bow need boost not nerf :P wtf

ArRashid · June 2014

Did they fix bow sneak damage?

as I've written in another topic, here's my problem:

ArRashid wrote: »

Also, yesterday I've noticed on alt that my abilities/heavy attacks weren't doing extra sneak damage with bow.
Since sneak damage should be +100% (unable to crit, which means it's 150%+100% = 250% dmg when sneak attack crits, instead of 2*1.5 = 300% dmg)
And my heavy attack was consistently doing 64 damage
My sneak heavy attacks should therefore deal 128 dmg, BUT they deal only 103. FTC also shows them as crits, aka "*103* heavy attack" (ALL of them, with my 16% crit chance that's highly unlikely).
But if it was non-sneak crit, it should deal 96 dmg (which again isn't 103)
Or if those were sneak crits, they should have done 160 dmg (again, not 103).

Could someone please tell me why the eff I deal 103 dmg with sneak attacks? It doesn't make any sense to me. My alt is breton and I'm too low level for any crit or sneak damage enhancements yet, so dunno what else could interfere. Also my weapon trait is Training and mundus stone Lady (= the first one). And no, I didn't take Long Shots passive yet to interfere with numbers.