Glorious Alpha Two Testers!
Alpha Two Phase II testing is currently taking place 5+ days each week. More information about testing schedule can be found here
If you have Alpha Two, you can download the game launcher here, and we encourage you to join us on our Official Discord Server for the most up to date testing news.
Alpha Two Phase II testing is currently taking place 5+ days each week. More information about testing schedule can be found here
If you have Alpha Two, you can download the game launcher here, and we encourage you to join us on our Official Discord Server for the most up to date testing news.
Longbow vs. Shortbow [PVE] - My thoughts. Your thoughts?
leton
Member, Alpha Two
When starting out, it really seemed like the shortbow felt much, much better than the longbow...
But after hitting level 20 and getting my hands on some more decent rarity / well optimized gear...I've found that the long-bow has been quite pleasant to use now...And seems to be giving me better TTK than it's comparable, short-bow counterpart. (Using a 2*, level 20 goblin flayer as a benchmark)
Current longbow is uncommon steel, and shortbow is uncommon dunzen, which is about all I could currently afford.
Both bows are leveled to 25, for fair comparison...and my stat priorities are currently :
- STR > DEX > Attack power > Attack speed > Accuracy > crit chance > crit power > Penetration
Another thing that I've noticed, is that the long-bow's auto-attacks actually crit quite respectably...And my finishers and extended finishers are often critting for about a 1/3 of what my snipe can crit for.
I thought that maybe the short-bow would still perform better with the mage-buff, due to the high attack speed, but having a mage friend and testing it out...that really didn't seem to be the case.
Though, I am uncertain as to how exactly that weapon buff applies / what it scales off of.
Overall, it just seems like the skills are scaling better overall off of the increased power the longbow provides, while my auto-attacks seem significantly better with gear that offers better attack speed rating. Getting to the finishers/extended finishers more quickly/reliably has seemed to help quite a lot.
Anyway, those are my thoughts/observations...Maybe I'm wrong/missing something...I'd be interested in other opinions.
But after hitting level 20 and getting my hands on some more decent rarity / well optimized gear...I've found that the long-bow has been quite pleasant to use now...And seems to be giving me better TTK than it's comparable, short-bow counterpart. (Using a 2*, level 20 goblin flayer as a benchmark)
Current longbow is uncommon steel, and shortbow is uncommon dunzen, which is about all I could currently afford.
Both bows are leveled to 25, for fair comparison...and my stat priorities are currently :
- STR > DEX > Attack power > Attack speed > Accuracy > crit chance > crit power > Penetration
Another thing that I've noticed, is that the long-bow's auto-attacks actually crit quite respectably...And my finishers and extended finishers are often critting for about a 1/3 of what my snipe can crit for.
I thought that maybe the short-bow would still perform better with the mage-buff, due to the high attack speed, but having a mage friend and testing it out...that really didn't seem to be the case.
Though, I am uncertain as to how exactly that weapon buff applies / what it scales off of.
Overall, it just seems like the skills are scaling better overall off of the increased power the longbow provides, while my auto-attacks seem significantly better with gear that offers better attack speed rating. Getting to the finishers/extended finishers more quickly/reliably has seemed to help quite a lot.
Anyway, those are my thoughts/observations...Maybe I'm wrong/missing something...I'd be interested in other opinions.
1
Comments
shortbows definetly feel weaker than the 2 but i think it can work with a specific gear build path which im trying issue is getting said gear is not easy.
I believe you meant to say Longbow for the second one, correct?
A physical wand for example seems like it critting so much more than my shortbow and when i was testing with barrage (20-24x dmg) with a short bow im getting 2-6 crits a barrage with a shortbow (Dunzen) where a steel energy wand im getting 6-12 crits a barrage.
Some mobs have crit resistance so it hard to test if applying properly but hitting the same mob with different weapon the wand was definitely critting more often than the dunzen shortbow i was using