Best bow for ARC/BRD

[Lamentor]

Don't you just cast songs and let the real DPSers do the dmgs?

Like I said, I'm going to have many different play styles on my tests. To be fair, the 15 + 15 +15 is the amount of runs I'm counting into my data with just 1 playstyle in mind. I'm eventually going to test with these same bows, different play styles. But like I said earlier, it could take a few months to do so, so I'm trying to take what I can for the moment. I'm also possibly looking into this a bit too deeply. But I figure it's a decent time to do so, considering the likelihood that that stat bonuses and damage calculations will not be changing much from this point on.

[Lamentor]

So this hotfix takes away from the whole WS light shot WS light shot strategy. Just saying. Which is fine, honestly.

[NoctisUmbra]

So this hotfix takes away from the whole WS light shot WS light shot strategy. Just saying. Which is fine, honestly.

Yea.. that came outta nowhere. Don't understand.

[Sano]

With this change (Light Shot being forced onto cooldown after Weapon Skills), what do you all think about Garuda vs Ifrit? I want to say that Garuda would still win, since it's cooldown on LS will be shorter, but not sure if people will believe me

[MartaDemireux]

Well... depends how much the CD is. If it's a noticeable difference then you could go for the lowest delay, but honestly I'm thinking the power would be more of a benefit.

Serpent Sergeant's Bow honestly looks like an awesome bow. Ifrit has the power, Garuda has the speed, SS is a good middle ground with +45atk power as long as you're under sanction and don't die.

[Dzian]

With this change (Light Shot being forced onto cooldown after Weapon Skills), what do you all think about Garuda vs Ifrit? I want to say that Garuda would still win, since it's cooldown on LS will be shorter, but not sure if people will believe me

given the impact its had on my damage output i find it all the more believable now. in fights where i could average 80-90 dps i struggle to hit 55-60 at present. (basicaly cut my damage by about 1/3 overall )

[Lamentor]

given the impact its had on my damage output i find it all the more believable now. in fights where i could average 80-90 dps i struggle to hit 55-60 at present. (basicaly cut my damage by about 1/3 overall )

That's a huge DPS decrease. I've noticed it too actually. And since a lot of my data was before this change, I've found that I had to start over with almost all of it. It kind of blows, but there's not really anything I can do about it I guess.

[DannyPhantom]

With this change (Light Shot being forced onto cooldown after Weapon Skills), what do you all think about Garuda vs Ifrit? I want to say that Garuda would still win, since it's cooldown on LS will be shorter, but not sure if people will believe me

With my Garuda bow i can still light shot between ws's because the cooldown is a little bit less than 3 seconds. Side by side with a bard using ifrits bow i can get 1ws, light shot, and another ws at the same time he just uses 2 ws's. Add the damage up over time and garuda bow wins in long fights.

[DyskoFox]

I've read every single post in this thread and I got the tingles. I love my bard and need to collect a few more bows before I can do some testing myself. I am not quite sure if I shall be playing my Arc because many just straight up prefer a bard for the support abilities. I do hope I shall obtain enough bows to jump in the testing mix with you all though. Till then I shall be sporting my Ifrit's bow due to my lack of luck with drop rates. Not having a Mog bow or Garuda bow is saddening.