Find a niche for the Longbow

[Tristan]

With arrows deciding pierce damage there is no reason to use the Longbow.

I'm speak on behalf of a friend here. Find a niche for it by tweaking the stats somehow?

[kono yaro!]

Does that friend of yours happen to be Nelo?

[Digglez]

well its got the highest missile speed, but not by enough.  should be 5 or more higher than the next highest bow

[Diomedes]

x2 damage against armoured horses.  Make it the whale-killer.  Or, the ol' longstanding alternative, let it work alternately as a crap polearm weapon.

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"Whoa, infantry dude, brah, you think you got me?  Well take a whack from my bullshit stick! *stick slap* Look at me!  I'm slapping on your parade!"

[Rogue_Eagle]

Make it 50 pierce damage with  longer draw time by 3x.

[Cyclopsided]

I support a damage increase like this: +3 dmg + 1 missile speed -1 reload speed

Give it the slow-but-cannon niche. It lost it recently.

[Matey]

give longbow knockdown! trolololol

[indigocylinder]

polearm alternate mode because that would be hilarious.

[Gisbert_of_Thuringia]

Anyone here ever played with the longbow? o.O

If you reduce the reloadingtime you can even more throw it away....the only prob with the longbow is it's speed, everything else is fine.

When you reduce the speed this stupid delay will be even worse than it is already

[Nelo]

Does that friend of yours happen to be Nelo?

no.... why you believe that he talking about me?
im not the only one who think that long bow need a buff 

[[ptx]]

Delay is fucking awful, combined with the lack of ability to hold the arrow for even a split second.

[Gisbert_of_Thuringia]

Delay is fucking awful, combined with the lack of ability to hold the arrow for even a split second.

Jup.

That's how it is atm^^
I know they fixed this delay a few patches ago but something went wrong with the last patch or the one before I think, because now there is a small delay again und you always miss the point where your reticule is smallest...No way to shoot at the perfect moment.
Yeah and it's kinda stupid that you can't hold the longbow for half a second whereas it perfectly works with the rus bow :/

[Diomedes]

give longbow knockdown! trolololol

 

This could be interesting....

[Gafferjack]

Delay is fucking awful, combined with the lack of ability to hold the arrow for even a split second.

...now there is a small delay again, and you always miss the point where your reticule is smallest... ...it's kinda stupid that you can't hold the Long Bow for half a second whereas it perfectly works with the Rus Bow.

Get more WPF.

Ontopic: Personally, I think +2 damage and +2 drawspeed in addition to making the Long Bow as accurate as the Rus Bow would be a decent enough buff that the Long Bow wouldn't be completely worthless against the Rus Bow, as it is now. Either that or lower the Rus Bow's stats. But it's not like a dev is actually going to use this suggestion, so... why the fuck am I posting?

[[ptx]]

Get more WPF.

Ontopic: Personally, I think +2 damage and +2 drawspeed in addition to making the Long Bow as accurate as the Rus Bow would be a decent enough buff that the Long Bow wouldn't be completely worthless against the Rus Bow, as it is now. Either that or lower the Rus Bow's stats. But it's not like a dev is actually going to use this suggestion, so... why the fuck am I posting?

I have always gone for 18/24 pure archer builds.