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Bows feel far weaker than they used to

Lynx7386
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Been leveling up a new word elf archer on ps4 after having played pc back at launch. I seem to recall them being quite powerful back then.

Doing pvp today though, I seemed to be able to plink Dozens upon dozens of arrows into other players without hardly scratching their health bars. What happened to bows between then and now?
PS4 / NA
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  • danovic
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    Really not enough information given to answer you. Bow on Pc is probably the strongest weapon still. Do you have the correct weapons damage set with stamina spec? The damage goes off of you stamina pool and medium armor. Don't have any of those and you right bow is just average like the rest of the weapons. You probably don't have cp either on console they lowered everything so you could raise it back up to were it was with cp so without Cp it is also not impressive.
  • Lynx7386
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    I transferred, so I do have champ points and I'm aware of how the resource and scaling mechanics work.

    It seems like bow light attacks in particular do significantly less damage now, but fire faster. Overall it feels nerfed compared to the last time I played with them (way back in september/November).
    Edited by Lynx7386 on June 21, 2015 12:44AM
    PS4 / NA
    M'asad - Khajiit Nightblade - Healer
    Pakhet - Khajiit Dragonknight - Tank
    Raksha - Khajiit Sorcerer - Stamina DPS
    Bastet - Khajiit Templar - Healer
    Leonin - Khajiit Warden - Tank
  • Egonieser
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    Lynx7386 wrote: »
    I transferred, so I do have champ points and I'm aware of how the resource and scaling mechanics work.

    It seems like bow light attacks in particular do significantly less damage now, but fire faster. Overall it feels nerfed compared to the last time I played with them (way back in september/November).

    Many things have been changed since then, entire class and weapon, and stat mechanics were changed. OP classes and weapons were nerfed, others buffed, most of them got broken in way or another. Update 1.6 introduced a huge amount of changes in core game mechanics and class/weapon builds. Maybe backtrack the patch notes and see what's changed.
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  • danovic
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    Try 5 piece hunding's rage 3 piece night silence with armor penetration and at least 5 percent in bow specialization cp all attacks do good damage yes and faster with crafted bow made with increase speed trait its a machine gun when woven with venom arrow. Anything that lowers there armor is good now that lowered damage on all weapons. Armor absorbs more damage after 1.6.
    Edited by danovic on June 21, 2015 1:43AM
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