As of now, the bow is a very straightforward weapon, mostly used for its M1s and not their skills because of how easy is it. Even a toddler can hit things with it.
Basically, here is my proposed change.
Holding the M1 button makes your arrow go faster, farther and with more damage. It would take roughly 1.5 seconds to fully charge an arrow. The range multiplier will still apply here. If you have this imbued, a magic circle will appear on the back of your hand you are drawing the arrow back with.
Pressing the M1 button will deal relatively good damage at close range but will travel less far and at a slower speed. It will also lose it’s damage the further it goes.
Players will now have a vanity quiver on their back with arrows, the arrows will be imbued if your class allows.
(This is in the balance server, but this post has much more detail, plus I want Human Rights @Meta )
New Technique: Archer’s Focus
This move is a temporary state where, for the next 5 seconds, you can shoot an arrow and teleport to it after pressing the hotkey for the move again. This arrow will have 25% less range than a normal arrow. If you hit an enemy with an arrow while this move is active it will act as a grab, where you teleport behind the opponent and kick off their back before quickly shooting an arrow into their chest and falling back to the ground.
Cooldown for this move is 20 seconds.
(This move is on @Selector’s document, but I added more detail and some changes!)
Reason to add/change
As I’ve said, the bow is a weapon barely used for its skills. As well as this, it is very easy to just cheese NPCs and even players sometimes by just standing there and pressing the M1 button with little to no downtime between shots, unlike the musket or revolvers.
If you have any questions or comments/concerns leave them below instead of rate bombing this, it can always be edited.
I like the bow charging. I think it’s a good way to balance bow m1’s possibly being a bit overpowered.
The quiver change is unnecessary.
Archers focus is cool and could probably replace one of bow’s current abilities. But I think it should be a little more than a grab because I feel like there are too many grabs on weapons right now.
