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Originally Posted by aric_swartzell
How do people use shortbows? I guess it'd get better if I had rep shot. But I find the damage over time about the same, I can fire off more spells per amount of time...but I only have two damage spells to fire, so that's kinda moot. And the range is less. I must be missing something as several of the best hunters I know use shorts.
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short bow tree is awesome. But I have to admit I suck with short bows, I am too used to range and a fast weapon is just too fast for my slow brain and my slow movements of my fingers.
dual shoot rules out shield piercing, lower cool down and less mana for almost the same damge (but it depends on the bow)
dex passive is very good, if you have short bow tree on a higher lvl (most long bow users have short bow on 7 or even 11 because of dex passive) you can even get a higher passive. You will notice that with more dex your spells hit more often, also you will evade more
conc buff is freakin awesome, you can even hit almost every attack on very hard mobs with it, without a lot are either resisted or evaded. At lvl 5 duration is almost cooldown
tear apart is a great spell too, makes dmg independent from armor and is the most powerful damage spell of a hunter. break apart from long bow tree realy sucks inmho, long cooldown, long casting time, much mana. I as a marksman don't use it, I have much better damage spells. But I am not realy sure which effect the -const of break apart has...
hit chance passive is also great, especially for hunters who rely a lot on basic damage and less on damage skills.
hinder is also good, especialy when you are chased, but it is also often used when you chase somebody to slow him down, mostly used when ensnarring arrow missed
and finally rep shoot...very good dmg spell...imagin you are a hunter and use camo to neak to a group of levelers. You get yourself in position and cast it...
or in fort wars after breaking the door, or after a terror...
short bow tree is realy better than longbow imho...but as I said...I am too dumb to use it. I only switch to fast short bow sometimes when I realy need the attack speed, especially when facing a barb.
But at big wars short bow is in disadvantage because of the range
just my 2 cents, even when they are off topic...but actually there is not realy a topic to discuss things like this. We should discuss much more about spells, spell combinations and spell timing than about which spell to nerf next or which spell needs a change