I strongly disagree. I'm very excited to get this weapon. If someone melee wants to engage me, they will have to take into account that volley will be on them consistently. This is a great weapon for a tank, you can animation cancel this very quickly and have some decent damage surrounding you.

If a sorc wants to sit in their mines, i can pop volley on them and it will do alright damage, even more so now with this bow.

Just because you do not think this bow with be useful for you, does not mean it will not be useful for others.

Not everyone plays a meta dueling build. I play to support my groups. Which is why i believe the Maelstrom Bow will fit my arsenal perfectly.



Credit goes to : @Paulington for this picture.

As you can see, you take a considerable amount of damage with this bow when using volley. About 7000 damage more when in the duration of volley. This is something people will underestimate and be punished for.

@GreenSoup2HoT

I respect your opinion, and appreciate your data.

The way I look at it thou.

In order for this "Epic" weapon to be effective, you have to stand in the circle of death, the whole duration.

What are the chance of that happening?

However, if they added a snare inside the damage radius, then I would have to say its worth it.

Scorched Earth also benefits from the damage buff, the small lingering aoe then becomes rather nasty since it has the whole volley duration plus its own to build up even more damage. You just need to do what you can to get your enemies into the aoe near the end of its duration, and in pvp many wouldn't expect the skill to hit hard.

For added cc/snare on a bow see Bombard.

I'm very interested in getting this bow on live.

CP5 wrote: »

Scorched Earth also benefits from the damage buff, the small lingering aoe then becomes rather nasty since it has the whole volley duration plus its own to build up even more damage. You just need to do what you can to get your enemies into the aoe near the end of its duration, and in pvp many wouldn't expect the skill to hit hard.

Are you sure the Scorched Earth also benefits from this (tested?)? That would be rather nasty, turning this 7k addition damage to 14k.

The problem with Scorched Earth is its radius is so small compared to the other morph, unless you can lock your opponent in there with some immobilization spam, i think id rather Arrow Barrage.

Would still be nasty for a anti melee build, melee would have to think twice charging into you.

When they take off aoe caps it could be good for defending keep entrances when combined with caltrops etc.

andypappb16_ESO wrote: »

coolermh wrote: »

When they take off aoe caps it could be good for defending keep entrances when combined with caltrops etc.

Even without removing AoE Cap( pls do) defending a breach with caltrops+scorched Earth is nasty enough

I agree, its a pretty potent way of getting people to hesitate when at a breach. The ones who get slowed by caltrops really feel the pain.

GreenSoup2HoT wrote: »

CP5 wrote: »

Scorched Earth also benefits from the damage buff, the small lingering aoe then becomes rather nasty since it has the whole volley duration plus its own to build up even more damage. You just need to do what you can to get your enemies into the aoe near the end of its duration, and in pvp many wouldn't expect the skill to hit hard.

Are you sure the Scorched Earth also benefits from this (tested?)? That would be rather nasty, turning this 7k addition damage to 14k.

The problem with Scorched Earth is its radius is so small compared to the other morph, unless you can lock your opponent in there with some immobilization spam, i think id rather Arrow Barrage.

Would still be nasty for a anti melee build, melee would have to think twice charging into you.

It does, I had my trusty clannfear to help with that testing. As an example (with a high crit rate) the lingering aoe was able to reach 2k crits, if you recast the skill the aoe will remain but without the bonus damage. A tick I saw when I recasted from the aoe without the buff was somewhere mid 200's. Now the morph choice is difficult, more aoe, or longer duration to get out even more damage.