I used to use it, but frankly it's pretty useless. The main problem is that it has no long range capabilities, since it has some weird arrow 'dip' on it that makes it utterly useless past about 30m. It's just not accurate enough even at short distances and while it does pack a punch if you can hit with it, those hits are far too few and far between to make it viable as a bow choice over the Horn or Rus bow.
IMO, it should be a 5 PD weapon not a 6, since both the Rus and Long bow are more accurate and the speed difference between the Yumi and the Rus bow is negligable. Taking into account that it's only one slot, that puts it into the same class as the Horn bow which shoots much faster and more accurately (in my experience) and thus is a far more useful weapon (especially since the headshot buff). Conversely, the difference between the speed of the Yumi and the Rus basically isn't there, so why would you take an albeit 1 slot Yumi, when you can take a harder hitting bow with more accuracy?
This is the main problem with it I think, but it's probably set up this way because all weaboo weapons are either priced poorly, or made useless by their stats (i.e wakizashi). Either the Yumi should be more accurate, or faster firing or have it's power draw requirement reduced in order to make it an actually competative bow, rather than a style choice that most don't make because of it's uselessness.
My two cents.
SibatamaLALA_Linsanity 24/04/2012 17:09 Masterwork Heavy Crossbow 3 0 Masterwork Yumi > 3 0
Kojiro007 24/04/2012 18:28 Masterwork Horn Bow 3 0 Masterwork Yumi > 3 100,000
SAMURAI_NaiCha 19/04/2012 12:58 Masterwork Long Bow 3 0 Masterwork Yumi > 3 0
Guard_Arokh_vom_Berge 22/04/2012 19:39 Masterwork Rus Bow 3 0 Masterwork Yumi > 3 0
Token_JesusNinja_MB 20/04/2012 14:40 Masterwork Spear 3 200,000 Masterwork Yumi > 3 0
Kapikulu_MahirTheKusucurtmaz 25/04/2012 00:09 1,400,000 Masterwork Yumi > 3 0
But did you used a non-loomed yumi or +3 yumi. Because as long as it's accuracy and missile speed is at a reasonable value, that means it is just fine. Which is increased by looms. Seriously guys. I want this weapon.
Seems like its the bastard of the bows. Would take a serious weaboo to use it.
To be fair, giving it 5 requirement and maybe nerfing it in some other place would be more desirable.NO! Don't nerf it!
Yumi accuracy is stated higher on the website but afaik increasing power draw decreases one's accuracy so really the horn bow is more accurate with 5 pd than a Yumi with 6. IIRC
To be fair, giving it 5 requirement and maybe nerfing it in some other place would be more desirable.
Maybe if they made the yumi 5pd then added the daikyu to be 6pd and unusable from horseback then I might wanna be a weeaboo.
There would be a simple way to give the yumi a niche:
Make it 2 Slot and 5 PD.
That way, It would be a legit choice for Horse archers, de-enabling their melee capacities but giving them a stronger bow for their builds.
For foot archers it would still mostly be crap compared to long- and rus bow, but since it´s the same right now It would be far better.
PS: Dont tell me Yumi is good for Horse archers as it is right now...It´s fucking crap because you need an 18/21 Build, and with 3 horse archery your aim is SHITE, I tested it.
Your aim's fine, you can easily make up for your slight loss of accuracy that you get compared to 4 HA, after only a few maps of playing when I made a horse archer, I could hit targets consistently again.
Make it 2 Slot and 5 PD.
look at black corsair, hes very good with his yumi on his horse and he has a 50+ ping :!:
Let's improve your suggestion - make it 3 Slot and 4 PD.
Or even better - make it 4 slot and 3 PD.
Are you sure that your suggestion is better than mine?
Nope.If you think about it, it´s only logical.
The Yumi is one of the "big 3" of the bows, namely the Long bow, Rus bow and the Yumi.Those are the "bigger" bows requiring 6 pd, with more damage and Accuracy.The thing that is supposed to make it unique and give it a niche right now is that it only needs 1 slot, contrary to the 2 of the other big bows.
This failed.Why?Simply because for a foot archer, if you aren´t going for style as a weaboo, one of the 2 other bows is almost always a better choice.For horse archers it fails because you need 6 pd, rendering you unable to get 4 Horse archery on level 30.
So, to make the Yumi a proper Horse archer bow, give it req pd5 and make it 2 slot.That way, it will be usable for the typical horse archer build.
Black Corsair is the ONLY person I have ever seen use a Yumi well on horse back. Everyone else gets ripped apart by horn bow HA and gives up quickly. I've never come across another Yumi HA other than Black corsair that I can't beat. It's a hard weapon to master on horseback. Certainly not a reliable bow by any standards. It's in an odd niche at the moment.
Or you could always just learn how to shoot instead of balancing weapons around what you can and can't do.
As I've said, I've used the Yumi bow on a 18/21 HA build effectively, and it would appear that we even have a so called "Black Corsair" that's effectively using the Yumi from horseback, either I'm somehow an incredibly good shot on horseback despite sucking ass as a foot archer or you're just even worse than me.
For what reason? No one use Bow and Short Bow too, let's nerf them too a bit.
It's not a problem of the bow, it's problem about lazy people, who do not want to do any experiments.
Doesn't mean it's any less effective, if one can do it, other people can.
Ok go take an awlpike and get as many kills as chase then. Or a lance and go do a kerrigan.
Balancing a bow, or any weapon, by the best players and in this case the only good person who uses it is an appalling idea.
Wait, are you implying poke weapons such as the awlpike is hard? Hahahahahahahah.