War Bow or Long bow for pure archer?

[Amender]

Hey i have got a long bow and a war bow, im going 18s21a with 5IF 1PS 7A 6PD 7WM gunna spend all my WPP on Archery, im thinking that war bow is more accurate and faster at shooting? and that the long bow is slower but more powerfull against armoured units? need some advice.

[ToxicKilla]

Longbow if you're cool. It's getting a buff next patch too.

[Hauptmann]

Longbow does pierce damage, warbow does cut. Longbow seems like the winner, here.

[Arrowblood]

Still pierce or cut damage?
Because i shoot an naked peasant lv10-15 i think, with my Mw longbow and 10 pd he didnt die, i had to shot 1 arrow more.
Next round i shot him with strongbow and he died by 1 shot.The longbow should get more pierce or the old  cut.
I think you should use the longbow at the big open battlefields, so you can shoot from far away into the crowded camping places, because of the high shotspeed.
I use the warbow at maps with not alot of open places , so you can react faster to cav attacks.
My favourite build for  archery is 18/24 6 pd and 172 wpf. You cant be more accurate with long or warbow.


(bad english, i know ...)

[Mullerian]

Longbow does pierce damage, warbow does cut. Longbow seems like the winner, here.

It does lower pierce damage than the warbow and it shoots far slower. Comparing just a single set of stats on the weapons seems like a rather flawed comparison to make.

Anyways i would recommend buying and trying out both. I like having both for specific scenarios. For example i prefer for the warbow for when theres a lot of horse archers, then the longbow just seems too slow to shoot back properly.

And for the post above, i heard they were buffing the pierce damage on the longbow a bit. Do a search for posts by Paul.

[Tennenoth]

At current the stats of the warbow outweight the longbow no matter what you do, it is more accurate, shoots nearly just as far and does far more damage, I would highly recommend using the warbow and even with the alleged buff for 2 pierce damage and 1 accuracy to the longbow, it still means that the warbow is the way to go!

Despite that, I created a longbowman, have done since day 1 (Other than my HA phase) and plan to stick to it because it looks so much better, especially now it doesn't look like a hunting bow when it's drawn back now!

[Keshian]

Try longbow and strongbow, warbow is the in-between but it takes up 2 valuable equipment slots.  When you say pure archer are you going to carry a melee weapon at all?  If not use strongbow so more ammo and shoot faster so you don't have to melee as often.

[PikeDan]

Longbow is the choice for "pure" builds because you're going to need that pierce damage so you can kill tin cans more often, Warbow's the better "Hybrid" bow as far as the high tier bows go, because it's faster, does more damage prior to armor (31 cut, last time I checked, but for some reason I've got a "Balanced" longbow and a "Balanced" Warbow with 32 Pierce.) And has a faster projectile speed.