What happened with Archery?

[vallcrist2]

Hey everyone.

I played at the start of W12 for around 2 in-game years and I loved using the bow and arrow to hunt mobs (and sometimes missing the shot and getting completely destroyed by a deer, of course).

Now in W13, archery feels very weird/different. From what I understood and what I gathered from update posts, seems that there was a change mid W12 where archery shots now trigger combat cooldown. Looking at the wiki and the forum I couldn't really find a lot of info on this. Is there any to mitigate it? Will it get faster as my character progresses and I get more points in Marksmanship/Agi/Dex, or is hunting with a bow now only viable if you one shot your target (tried killing a bat, assuming I would be able to 2-tap it safely, boy was I wrong lol)?

Thanks for the help.

[Sevenless]

Archery shooting speed doesn't change really. It's just not great for hunting.

[TheTylerLee]

You can double shoot if you time your clicks properly, the devs are aware that MM is useless these days (it has never been very strong to begin with) so they are fine with double shots


Makes a really nice combo if your client turns on passive mode automatically and the first shot makes animal flee and second shot makes animal agro

[TheTylerLee]

You can double shoot if you time your clicks properly, the devs are aware that MM is useless these days (it has never been very strong to begin with) so they are fine with double shots


Makes a really nice combo if your client turns on passive mode automatically and the first shot makes animal flee and second shot makes animal agro

[vallcrist2]

Archery shooting speed doesn't change really. It's just not great for hunting.

Yea, shooting speed was never awesome, but it was manageable, and most things you could 2-tap or 3-tap to kill were pretty ok to hunt with a bow early in W12. Now with this combat cooldown after each shot I don't think even that will be really possible

[The_Lich_King]

You can double shoot if you time your clicks properly, the devs are aware that MM is useless these days (it has never been very strong to begin with) so they are fine with double shots


Makes a really nice combo if your client turns on passive mode automatically and the first shot makes animal flee and second shot makes animal agro

What the hell do you mean? Do you mean it's not been strong for a long time, because w8 to mid w9 archery allowed people with 20 stats to kill bears and beyond, and archery was the pvp meta making everything else useless because of how OP it genuinely was. Most of the nerfs to it were done in those days as a reaction to how stupidly broken so your use of the word never makes me believe you have forgotten the dark days.

[darkpuppet]

You can double shoot if you time your clicks properly, the devs are aware that MM is useless these days (it has never been very strong to begin with) so they are fine with double shots


Makes a really nice combo if your client turns on passive mode automatically and the first shot makes animal flee and second shot makes animal agro

what would be the correct timing?