Combat bows are my personal favorite weapon (I currently use a 3 bow setup) and with being able to craft a bow from the get go (Holless-IV) I personally think Combat bows should reflect their impact considering they’re Compound Bows by design. The compound bow is a weapon that is designed to break and penetrate bone on the opening shot. Give you an example a boar skull can easily be broken through with a fully drawn compound bow (given it has the right arrows) and certain points of a boars skull can be up to an inch and a half thick of solid bone. So if combat bows could get a buff towards headshot damage on perfectly drawn opening shots that would make it a decent alternative to Snipers (given you are patient and skilled enough to use it would be an amazing addition to this game. The change I am hoping to see would be nice in the crucible and gambit (pvp) considering the sniper is one of the only weapons i can think of where any headshot is instant death. It would be nice to utilize a more skill based (timing and non-hitscan) headshot/precision damage based alternative.
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