> Infused trait with a wep/spell damage glyph can technically be said to carry its effect to the frontbar, but I can't envision the extra 104 damage—with questionable uptime—outperforming sharpened.

What? The enchant is 358 weap/spell dmg with infused and should have a >60% uptime.

Nothing really changed. If nirn and infused were best and pretty much close together now either nirn will be best or infused (because of enchants) or they will continue to be +/- same.

In any case, someone will math it out and share. No need to assume and theorize.

//edit: I also do not think the sharpened interaction is there.

I am curious if when the badasses get around to testing vMA weapons they will even be worth using on back bar. They now buff only one ability at what amounts to the cost of a general stat 1x set bonus. While the bow buff to an ability is a good one and persists when you are on the front bar, you still spend a significant amount of time on that back bar during which all other abilities and attacks will be reduced. The bottom line is that I doubt, in the case of both the bow and the destro staff, that the single ability buff will be worth the reduced stats even if those reduced stats are on only the back bar. If it does prove still BIS it will not be by much.

I think it will be precise

Since a bow has less weapon damage then 2H/Dual wield the 15% increase from nirnhoned are not as efficient. Secondly the single target Dots which "snapshots" the weapon damage/max stamina they are casted with are all on the frontbar (Rearming trap uses the stats of the moment it arms not the moment it is casted, poison injection scales of the current stats with each tick). so basically nirnhoned back bar benefits your endless hail(excluding the vma part), deadly cloak, razor caltrops, bow light attacks, poison injection. thats all.

precise however benefits nearly everything: your single target Dot casted on the frontbar, the abilities that scale with current stats, poisons, only monster set is unaffected.

Sharpened can be best if your not reaching pen cap since every ability inherits the penetration it is casted with.

I don't think that infused will be that good at all if youre using those double drainhealth poison (is deals more damage than the disease enchant)
Infused will probably the best if you refuse to use poisons and youre doing one of those crazy rotations where you barswap 8 times every full rotation to keep hawk eye up the full duration, in this case you can probably use the disease enchant nearly of cooldown so infused can be good. But since i have seen the parses with the double drain health poison i dont think that infused will be relevant at all.