Bow Popularity

I carry a wide assortment of long and short bows. Longbows of course for the range, and shortbows for when the enemy gets any closer than the aggro circle.

I think Flatbows, hornbows and shortbows are most popular in "use".

Skinwise, Stormbows, Celestial Bows, Platinum Bows, and Zodiac bows are really getting up there. I think all the hornbow variants and Halfmoon are popular skins.
I dont know how popular the other new bowskins are. To me, the Ironwing, Naga, Amber/Jade bows are kinda meh..

My setup:
Elswyth Recurve or my gold Poisonous Recurve Bow
Elswyth Longbow
Drago's Vampiric Flatbow
Trapping staff.

I have 3 hornbows but i rarely use them, the refire rate just doesnt work for me. i much prefer the speed of the recurve bow. But then again from my bows, you can tell im not a spiker.

I was a longbow fan for all of proph, but I went to shortbow in factions to make better use of the dazed condition. Since then it feels incredibly weird to use anything but a shortbow.

However I carry 9 bows and 2 staffs at all times so I can do whatever

Weapons I use the most:
1) Shortbow (collector 15>50, with mods) - most often held until the fighting starts, then I usually switch to #2
2) Elswyth's Recurve (vampiric) - barrage, general use
3) Poisoner's Longbow - pulling & poisoning
4) insightful staff (trapping)

Others rarely/never used:
1) Zealous Flatbow
2) Icy Composite Bow
3) candy cane bow

req8 15>50 Storm Bows(customized) for pulling on all my characters ^^

Shortbows > All

Thats imo.

Though when it comes to skin nothing can beat a Dead Bow or Plagueborn Bow

Bows I use:

Fiery Storrmbow of Fortitude
Poisonous Mursaat Hornbow of Fortitude
Zealous Recurve bow of defense
Elswyth Recurve bow
Icy Shortbow of defense
Drago's Flatbow.

Drago Flatbow is great for pulling aggro and attacking from long range.
My Gold Composite Bow is what i use half the time to attack enemies.
Storm bow/Shadow bow, which i use to interrupt things.

IMO, Recurve is the only way to go, in exception for a horn for spike damage or a long for when something is juuuuuust out of range, but, playing a Crip Ranger in GvG for who knows how long back when they still worked... that accuracy is clutch... But.. for PvE... build your own bow. All greens bows are trash (With exception of Brrne's Recurve for use as a Crip Shot ranger only)

Lili uses the long bow almost exclusively. She has a bramble short bow equipped for close-in, but the long bow lets her take out the casters without mixing with the warriors.

Poison bows, for the most part, but also equipped are a fire and an ice bow.

The bow she uses most now is a Celestial with +5 energy. The added energy plus very high Expertise means she seldom runs dry using skills .

You have 4 weapon slots, bring multiple types for switching...

I like the halfmoon/short and for distance flatbows.. they just have the best refire rates = more dps- arc can always be dealt with so the most damage over time is better for any build imo (the ap on horns does'nt stack up with preps too unless your using barrage then that bow is ideal).. for cripshot recurve bow because your not going to be bringing fw or read.. I never use longbows.. don't see the point really when you have a flat that does the same distance with a better refire rate.. the arc issue is dealt with in fw and your not going to be using the longbows to interupt anyway

I like to use eternal, storm and shadow bows myself, but the moment i find a mursaat that i like ill def be using that. Imho, the faction skins and kinda a let down for me (except that urgoz(?) longbow skin, that thing is sick).

I like to use eternal, storm and shadow bows myself, but the moment i find a mursaat that i like ill def be using that. Imho, the faction skins and kinda a let down for me (except that urgoz(?) longbow skin, that thing is sick).

edit: sorry bout the double post, if someone wants to delete this one feel free

I tend to use Elswyths recurve and longbow along with a with a 15>50 collectors shortbow for general use. I also have a couple of specialised bows, my undead f****r is a customised 15>50 firey longbow with a 20% deathbane grip and I have a similar bow with a dwarfslaying grip.

Gold perfect shocking flatbow of fortitude.
I have a dozen other bows, but the only three that see any use is the above, a gold perfect 5:1 vampiric half moon of defence, and Stinger. And I use the flatbow probably 95% of the time.
The flatbow has high arc, yes, but surely noone just stand around pumping arrows without using damage boosters like tigers fury, read the wind and favorable winds?
Recurve/compounds have so low refire rate one might as well use a hammer.

For me i prefer a Dead Bow, Zodiac, or Ironwing

Types i like most are Longbow, and Hornbow

Mursaat hornbow, has always been very popular, dead bow, a recurve bow as well, but that was more for the rarity of finding a gold 15^50 with max dmg and a low req which drove the price up on them so much. My favourite bow, least, most commonly used bow, is a flatbow, and ever since the urgoz flat dropped for me, I've been using that since I'm partial to the skin over any other flat skin.

Dragon skin Hornbows (combined with speed modifiers).

They look plausible and deal good damage. Medium range and medium accuracy so its the happy medium of a short and long bow i suppose.

my ranger has a 5/1 vamp mursaat horn bow for pvp
sundering long bow for pvp
and sundering recurve bow for pve

both pvp bows are used in pve (the vamp is mostly just a barrage build)