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Thursday, November 15th 2012, 7:58pm

Is a bow ever better?

We were having a discussion in guild the other day about putting Wrath in a bow and how much more of an increase it gives in comparison to slower xbows. So my question is this, is there any time when a bow is better than an xbow?

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Thursday, November 15th 2012, 8:45pm

No, its never better with a disclaimer, if they were to release a new bow with 2.6 and below speed (much like GDFB 2.4 speed) it would be better because as a /s you could spam shot. The Great dragon speed was awesome for r/s back in chapter 3 when barely anyone played rogue.

As for straight up scout nothing will ever beat an xbow. Bows were created for scout secondary.

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Friday, November 16th 2012, 5:24am

True, the only reason bow was better at one time was because the range was longer, but that was ninja-changed sometime late ch2 or ch3... only newbs like those gone to GW2 now still thought it had longer range even in ch4 :P (yah, you know who you are bro, still love ya anyways)

Edit: Not better even with the longer range, but better for a certain usage where range was required (shooting healers through gates at max range for one thing).

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Friday, November 16th 2012, 9:40pm

eh, i'd rather look cool with my epicly agged, though slightly less useful, bow instead of taking out a idiotic looking xbow everytime i wanted to shoot something...if only they made xbow/bow aggs interchangable...

but yeah...bows kinda suck compared to xbows..needs to be fixed
my r/p can outdps r/m. your name is stupid.

mages should stack dex. word.

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Saturday, November 17th 2012, 1:01am

For Scout primary, no, never.

For specific X/S classes, maybe. I tell guildies, for example, if you have a Knight/Scout, a bow is better than a crossbow because you're never really using the bow for DPS (focusing on aggro instead) except to pull and for stats/extra hatred rune. Why is it better then? Physical Crit rate as a the ghost stat with the same Patk ghost bonus as the same level crossbow.

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Saturday, November 17th 2012, 2:49am

do bows always give crit as a ghost stat at higher lvls? i know a couple lower lvl bows where the xbow gives crit while bow gives dex...
my r/p can outdps r/m. your name is stupid.

mages should stack dex. word.

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Saturday, November 17th 2012, 5:45pm

Quoted from "Friendly;577371"

We were having a discussion in guild the other day about putting Wrath in a bow and how much more of an increase it gives in comparison to slower xbows. So my question is this, is there any time when a bow is better than an xbow?


Since you brought up the Wrath rune, Yes.

A bow would mathematically be a better choice if that was the only factor that mattered.

Since a Wrath rune, Most Chest Pieces and The Flame Dragon necklace have a +weapon Dmg. They would be a better choice then using a Crossbow.

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Monday, November 19th 2012, 3:57am

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do bows always give crit as a ghost stat at higher lvls? i know a couple lower lvl bows where the xbow gives crit while bow gives dex...

Both the 70 and 75 do. I am not sure about lower, as I have forgot. Memory level = 0.