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High Level Bow Skills ?
Shadanwolf
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I played a nightblade wood elf bow user to level 10 and was under whelmed by the bows effectiveness.
What have any of you experienced at higher levels of bow use that would encourage building the skill....or moving to another weapon ?
Thanks.
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Almost all the bow skills have atleast one morph that's pretty useful. Don't know what your issue is with it, it's one of the better weapons from top to bottom.
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Well i got 3 positives to bow for you.
1. Poison arrow (morph to Venom arrow) Silences and stuns target for 3 seconds if striking an enemy that is casting.
2. Scatter shot morphs into a greater knockback and knocks you back as well, and disorients target for 6 seconds.
3 Sniper shot morphs into a debuff that reduces healing by 50% for 10 seconds and does massive damage.
Im personally running double bow for both my slots, i love the bow for mobility and range.
I should also add... bow is the only ranged weapon whose abilities use Stamina - Staff abilities all use Magika.
It's a good idea to have a mix of active skills that use magika and stamina
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That's good to know. My highest character has only been level 10 since I wanted to try multiple races/classes in a short amount of time. I too was very underwhelmed by bows at lower levels. My damage was very weak compared to destruction staff. Not that I have any hard data but my kill time was twice as fast. Staves also felt faster and more fluid than bows but I'm sure that was more of an animation issue.
Sounds like a small squad of bowmen using voice comms and good discipline can 1-shot called-targets without too much difficulty, specially with the "sticky" aiming...
First weapon/skill nerf in ESO: Bows ?
Probably not. Weapons abilities in general are a bit underwhelming compared to magic. If anything your more likely to see underwhelming weapons get better.
The weapons in the game should act more like a supplement to your abilities. Not that you couldn't JUST use bow skills, but mixing them with other skills, from other skill lines would be best. Find the bow skills that you like most, and start looking into other skill lines to fill out your active bar.
As far as bow users being OP. I'm sure people would start to counter a bowman's tactics. You'd see a lot of closing abilities, CC abilities, or they'd just send a group of stealther's after you. You'll be pretty squishy to them I'd imagine
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A lot of players miss that I think. I have changed my range weapon to bow for what I think I will run with. I am going Templar and wanting to heal for groups. I thought I would use a destruction staff, but changed to a bow because of the stamina use. Also going sward and board for stamina use and a charge to be able to be in the mix for both damage, blocking, interrupt if needed along with my main heals.
Still thinking about running with both Heavy armor for questing and light for group play, but not sure. But I will be using that bow for sure now for range to save my magicka for heals.
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Check out http://www.esohead.com/calculator/skills#zckX
or similarly. Yes, pretty (pretty) useful lateorn. Really meh in the beginning, yes. The aimed shot with increased range or healing reduction is reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally a tough decision!
40m range is huge. 45m range even more. No idea if the +5m +10 attack power will compensate the -47% healing reduction
Heh, for once I agree. Getting pulled down a keep wall is so humiliating.
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Really? Played roughly until lev 11 or 12 myself - bow using nightblade altmer (I like the look, sue me) and was quite satisfied. Crouch, heavy attack with venom arrow released at the same time as the attack goes off + impale = dead. Was more fun once I got scatter shot and the morph.Rubber duck is incapable of hate.
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They're very good. Vampire bane in particular synergizes really well with a bow.