punch bow balance

[jeff goldblum]

I believe the worst thing in eggwars (other than hackers) is bow spamming with a punch bow as a form of melee, i admit, ive done it myself it is a very easy method to overpower someone is more powerful than you. so here should be the changes:

The punch bow should stay the same price,
Missing with the bow should not activate cooldown,
If a player is hit the bow should have a small delay (cooldown of maybe 1s?) to stop spamming someone off the island.

Please vote so your opinion is seen.

any other suggestions are welcome!

 

[ItsDavey_]

The punch bow already got nerfed. (It got nerfed from 12 diamonds to 25) So I don’t know why it needs to change again. It’s A part of strategy. you can buy a shield or make it save, so you can’t knock off.
Anyway I like it how it is so I don’t see a change in it. Sorry

 

[jeff goldblum]

The punch bow already got nerfed. (It got nerfed from 12 diamonds to 25) So I don’t know why it needs to change again. It’s A part of strategy. you can buy a shield or make it save, so you can’t knock off.
Anyway I like it how it is so I don’t see a change in it. Sorry

so really what that imply's is that shields should be lower cost? cause 20 diamonds is not easy to get as a counter if theyr'e coming at you

 

[AFreakingCookie (Hank)]

I believe the worst thing in eggwars (other than hackers) is bow spamming with a punch bow as a form of melee, i admit, ive done it myself it is a very easy method to overpower someone is more powerful than you. so here should be the changes:

The punch bow should stay the same price,
Missing with the bow should not activate cooldown,
If a player is hit the bow should have a small delay (cooldown of maybe 1s?) to stop spamming someone off the island.

Please vote so your opinion is seen.

any other suggestions are welcome!

No need for change. I feel like everything is fine as it is!
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[Gainfullterror]

Bow spamming.
While powerful, it's not the easiest task to pull off. (at least, for me it's somewhat challenging with my ping-induced arrow delay.)
It's far from overpowered in my opinion, and is incredibly easy to counter. Multiple ways I typically counter it is to make walls in front of me, place a block between the wall and I & then I proceed by jumping over the wall. You can also just make a wall and strafe around it if you're not in a good position to jump.
The walls serve as a barricade which will make the bow spammer panic for a few seconds, as they don't quite know what to do. You could even disregard the wall completely and strafe around to be unpredictable.
The biggest tip I have for you when dealing with bow spamming: Don't jump unless it's absolutely necessary. The one fatal mistake people make while bow spamming, is to jump around a lot. Not only is jumping unnecessary, but it's also a huge risk if you're relatively close to a ledge. Players take a significantly bigger amount of knockback if they're in the air while taking a hit, so stay on the ground as much as you can.

Bow spamming itself isn't really all that overpowered anymore if you consider the tips I mentioned above. I doubt a nerf is needed, and I think the current situation with the punch bow is completely balanced as is.

 

[ItsDavey_]

so really what that imply's is that shields should be lower cost? cause 20 diamonds is not easy to get as a counter if theyr'e coming at you

In overpowerd shields costs 10 diamonds.
Anyway, they can lower the price from 20 diamonds to 15 or 10.

 

[BringMeTheHorizon ♠]

I would say that, this is not really necessary at all. A small advice of myself, maybe try to avoid fighting at all in a place where it's widely open, and try to lure the bow spamming into a house or some kind of base. Bow spamming would not help in this situation; If he tries, on his turn, to lure you outside to a place where you can get bow spammed off the edge: Your best strategy would be not to go outside after him. Or just make a small wall around yourself or the island where it's pretty hard to get bow spammed off. I myself do remember just making huge walls around almost half of my base just so I don't get knocked off. Or I bow spam by my turn. :v

 

[ᴀᴜsᴛɪɴ]

The punch bow already got nerfed. (It got nerfed from 12 diamonds to 25) So I don’t know why it needs to change again. It’s A part of strategy. you can buy a shield or make it save, so you can’t knock off.
Anyway I like it how it is so I don’t see a change in it. Sorry

Agreed
Sorry bruh.

 

[LeCastel]

It's already been balanced. It's incredible expensive compared to most other items. Also you can easily defend yourself against bow users if you know what you are doing, you wouldn't even need a shield for it.

 

[Jevmen]

i like chaos :D
if you are good you can make a good barriel

 

[Xilicks]

I believe the worst thing in eggwars (other than hackers) is bow spamming with a punch bow as a form of melee, i admit, ive done it myself it is a very easy method to overpower someone is more powerful than you. so here should be the changes:

The punch bow should stay the same price,
Missing with the bow should not activate cooldown,
If a player is hit the bow should have a small delay (cooldown of maybe 1s?) to stop spamming someone off the island.

Please vote so your opinion is seen.

any other suggestions are welcome!

I don't know if anyone mentioned this yet however with overpowered items towards the end of a game its very difficult to kill anyone without breaking their armor or outnumbering them. Even then players can have backup sets of armor and notch apples to sustain themselves. Spamming with the punch bow is one of the most effective way of defeating players in overpowered otherwise matches can end up taking a long time to break through iron/diamond armor.

 

[BadGuy]

The punch bow already got nerfed. (It got nerfed from 12 diamonds to 25) So I don’t know why it needs to change again. It’s A part of strategy. you can buy a shield or make it save, so you can’t knock off.
Anyway I like it how it is so I don’t see a change in it. Sorry

The price doesnt matter the lower price could in fact make it worst because players will just add that to there shopping list while camping

 

[BadGuy]

I don't know if anyone mentioned this yet however with overpowered items towards the end of a game its very difficult to kill anyone without breaking their armor or outnumbering them. Even then players can have backup sets of armor and notch apples to sustain themselves. Spamming with the punch bow is one of the most effective way of defeating players in overpowered otherwise matches can end up taking a long time to break through iron/diamond armor.

why should the only good method for progressing be a punch bow? i think the bow should be nerfed and op armor nerfed aswell to be safe

 

[Injunction]

this would only make the punch Bow less helpful
Not offering any positive since bow spamming with punch bows really isn't a problem any more

Sure there is the odd time but most of the time people use the bow for tactical reasons other than to spam someone off

 

[alltop10]

I would say that, this is not really necessary at all. A small advice of myself, maybe try to avoid fighting at all in a place where it's widely open, and try to lure the bow spamming into a house or some kind of base. Bow spamming would not help in this situation; If he tries, on his turn, to lure you outside to a place where you can get bow spammed off the edge: Your best strategy would be not to go outside after him. Or just make a small wall around yourself or the island where it's pretty hard to get bow spammed off. I myself do remember just making huge walls around almost half of my base just so I don't get knocked off. Or I bow spam by my turn. :v

...that is my profile pic :p

Like most people said, you can bring a shield and the price was already nerfed to 25 diamonds. Also, late game, it is a very viable tactic to save for an enderpearl, then pearl in behing you opponent and use the bow to hit them off. A cooldown would totally negate this tactic.


@BringMeZHorizon once again, my profile pic :p

 

[Jorn_N]

I believe the worst thing in eggwars (other than hackers) is bow spamming with a punch bow as a form of melee, i admit, ive done it myself it is a very easy method to overpower someone is more powerful than you. so here should be the changes:

The punch bow should stay the same price,
Missing with the bow should not activate cooldown,
If a player is hit the bow should have a small delay (cooldown of maybe 1s?) to stop spamming someone off the island.

Please vote so your opinion is seen.

any other suggestions are welcome!

Yes i want a cooldown, that bowspammers that always have stacks of arrows so annoying

 

[BringMeTheHorizon ♠]

...that is my profile pic :p

Like most people said, you can bring a shield and the price was already nerfed to 25 diamonds. Also, late game, it is a very viable tactic to save for an enderpearl, then pearl in behing you opponent and use the bow to hit them off. A cooldown would totally negate this tactic.


@BringMeZHorizon once again, my profile pic :p

shhhhhh I stole this from a friend.
If you really care that much, I *was* planning on changing it soon. >.>

And btw, I got an idea. Why don't we also nerf the price of *arrows*? It's so easy to get a crap ton of Gold after awhile in a game, which means the possession of stacks and stacks of arrows. At least nerf it a little bit? Good idea or nay?

 

[Jorn_N]

shhhhhh I stole this from a friend.
If you really care that much, I *was* planning on changing it soon. >.>

And btw, I got an idea. Why don't we also nerf the price of *arrows*? It's so easy to get a crap ton of Gold after awhile in a game, which means the possession of stacks and stacks of arrows. At least nerf it a little bit? Good idea or nay?

arrows 10 gold for 32?

 

[Xilicks]

why should the only good method for progressing be a punch bow? i think the bow should be nerfed and op armor nerfed aswell to be safe

Whatever they nerf is up to them but the post is about the bow nerf, I'm just stating my opinion on how the games would be without bow assuming no other changes.

 

[Jorn_N]

Whatever they nerf is up to them but the post is about the bow nerf, I'm just stating my opinion on how the games would be without bow assuming no other changes.

hmmm mabye exppensive arrows and only power