ESO_GOD wrote: »

What's weak about it? U heard about a little somethin called the maelstrom bow ?

I'm pretty sure he means as a primary front bar weapon. I.e., to be a ranged stamina pve dps. This is hard to do right now and has been for some time. You'll have a much easier time playing ranged magicka dps or the stam meta.

But yes, endless hail and poison injection are good for backbar skills.

Probably never but dunno. Bows are pretty alright now. Unless you plan to do some score runs or some serious achievements hunts chances are average DPS of your groupmembers will be less than what proper bow build is capable of

On PTS my NB capped out at 48k+ with Snipe and 42k+ with Crushing Weapon, DK capped out at 44k with Snipe.

On live I don't have the time or resources to squeeze out every drop of dps. I'm at 40k on the DK with Snipe and 44k on the NB with Snipe. Interestingly enough the NB with Crushing Weapon is at 41k live, not as much drop off with those changes which shows a more reliable setup less subject to little rotation variations.

Its not good dps compared to top melee setups. But 40k dps is more than enough for all content. I would like a buff to reduce the gap between melee and ranged. But the gap isn't limiting my ability to complete content.

The biggest change I want would be to remove the weapon damage difference and adjust skill scaling accordingly. This would really help assuage the differences in PVP between bow bar and other weapons bar.

Swift Jewelry and Speed pots have worked to completely negate the value of the Hasty Retreat passive. Already VO had negated its value for PVE for quite some time. We could use some love but not enough players want to play this way to gain traction.