Bow Popularity

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)

I use:
A Meynsang's Longbow
A Graygore's Shortbow
A Zealous Mursaat Hornbow for barrage

I'd like a Recurve bow with zealous, but I'm low on money now.

5:1, +29 Mursaat Hornbow
5:1, +30 Longbow (Ironwing)
Poisoners, +30 Longbow (Elswyths)
5:1, +30 Recurve (Elswyths)
Zealous, +5 Shortbow (Greygores)
Poisoners, +29, -5en Shortbow
Poisoners, +15 armour Longbow (mainly kept for sentimental reasons, and the fact that it's gone from the game, also looking to change it to a +10 armour, +30hp)

Now I just need Rotwings Recurve Bow and I'm done for a while.

What is the type of Zodiac skinned bows?

The reason all you guys use recurve, is that because you all use Barrage?

Because if you don't (heck, even if you do), seriously try out a flatbow instead. Longer range and much faster firing rate more than make up for the innate 10% sundering. Add Read The Wind and you have the same speed on the arrows and the same low arc too.

And a much higher firing arc and miss rate. Unless you are under Favorable Winds or Read the Wind, Flatbow for anything is horrendous. Use recurves for interrupting anyway, not barraging.

Zodiac Bows are of the Longbow class

Recurve is the "best" bow for most situations... that's why most use em'

you should really only be using a Flatbow if you are using RtW or Fav. Winds... if your not... don't expect to hit anything unless they are stationary targets

My favourite bow model of all time has to be...



But alas, a cruel twist of fate would have it be a Horn Bow, probably the most useless bow-type of all. Tarnok's Recurve Bow was just a slap in the face... sundering/enchant(ed/ing)...

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Apparently they're good for spiking, but I'm not entirely sure.
I know for a fact that Quick Shot and Needling Shot's cast times are actually based on your attack speed. The static '1 second' cast time listed on the skills seems to mean 100% of your attack speed. It's the same for the 1/2 second cast time spells of Warriors, such as Protector's Strike and Savage Slash, they're also based on your attack speed. Their '1/2 second' cast time seems to mean 200% of your attack speed.

So, if a Ranger's interrupts are effected in the same way... I'm wondering if a Horn Bow's slower attack speed is actually hurting the spike more than the 10% AP is helping.
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If you are playing a Ranger for spiking, yes, a Hornbow is best to use. The extra, base 10% armour penetration is very helpful in a spike or when just dealing damage. Other than that, other bows are better.

I also just tested Quickshot on the Isle of the Nameless with a recurve bow, short bow, long bow and horn bow, and you are wrong. The Hornbow fires a Quickshot just as fast as a shortbow does, same as interrupts such as Punishing shot, which is used in spiking. So yes, if spiking, a Hornbow is best. As soon as Quickshot is ready to fire again, the bowtype makes no difference, it still fires in 1 second and has a 1 second recharge. You might have gotten confused with the aftercast added to Ranger interrupts.

Eternal and Zodiac.

Go try QS/NS with Tiger's/Bestial Fury active. Also, try to look at the time between attacks, normal -> QS, rather than just the first shot. I'm pretty sure I'm not crazy... :/

Edit:

Eww, the voices lied to me. ¬_¬
Only the IAS stance seems to have an effect.

Favorite Skin: Nevermore flatbow.

Favorite Type: Shortbow.

I like Dead bows and Zodiac bows. fav skins.They also happen to be recurve and long bows,my favorite types .

Well, having a ranger, I know my bows Personally, I think they're the most expensive class to spend for weapons...being that they're usually only PARTLY marksman, not completely.

Favourite Longbow Skins: Storm Bow, Zodiac, Platinum, and the unique Urgoz's Longbow (Matches the colour of my armor ^^)

Favourite Recurve Skins: Dead Bow, Eternal Bow (Gee, there really aren't much, but the recurve is the 133754uc3 bow ^^)

Favourite Hornbow Skins: Mursaat, Dragon (dyed black!), Ivory (The contrast against black or darker armor is awesome ^^)

Favourite Shortbow Skins: er...I don't really have any shortbows -_- but if i did, Half Moon

And remember...if i say it's popular, it's popular xD j/k...(but seriously...kinda true xD)

ONLY for barrage, IMO. It's refire rate. is. horrendously. slow. Even for barrage a flatbow is better, IMO, since you get a normal shot between the barrages "for free".

True, you do need either (or both), but the pay-off from bringing RtW or FW is much, much, greater dps (due to the higher refire rate) than you get from the 10% sundering.

If you aren't using a Recurve for interrupting, you have no idea about bows.

I use the following:

Crippling Zodiac Bow of fortitude 15%Enchanted (to carry)

Vampiric Ironwing Longbow of Fortitude 15^50 (general Use)

Silencing Recurve Bow of Fortitude 15^50 (Interrupt)

Vampiric Shortbow Of Defence 15%Stance (to use while in a stance and being hit at close range)

I simply use the zodiac for the look while not in combat to prevent death by my vamp.

I just use an Ivory bow :/

Collector bows ftw!

I have a 15>50 longbow, a 15>50 recurve bow, and 15>50 flatbow, and a 15>50 shortbow. I haven't decided what mods to put on which ones yet, though. Of course, they all look the same, so it's a pain to resort them when I forget which is which.

My ranger is currently sporting the 20/20 +30Hp version of dragos Flat. But i'd much prefer a Bramble Longbow dyed red with the mods just with +15 always -10AR. But sadly I don't have 100k plus to drop on a bow.