Honest Opinions about the Current Meta and a little thought on balance (30-40)

[Dolloway]

I think the best solution would be to buff those Dex items that are just too weak to use in pvp but would be great on birds if they were buffed (i.e. Shivering Autobow, Bayou Bow). Like Burningdex said, if birds had an xbow with good speed and damage, they could better combat other classes like mages since they wouldn't have to step inside closer range like 8-10m as often and could rely on kiting in an efficient manner.

[burntoutdex]

I think the best solution would be to buff those Dex items that are just too weak to use in pvp but would be great on birds if they were buffed (i.e. Shivering Autobow, Bayou Bow). Like Burningdex said, if birds had an xbow with good speed and damage, they could better combat other classes like mages since they wouldn't have to step inside closer range like 8-10m as often and could rely on kiting in an efficient manner.

Precisely!

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[MageFFA]

I think the best solution would be to buff those Dex items that are just too weak to use in pvp but would be great on birds if they were buffed (i.e. Shivering Autobow, Bayou Bow). Like Burningdex said, if birds had an xbow with good speed and damage, they could better combat other classes like mages since they wouldn't have to step inside closer range like 8-10m as often and could rely on kiting in an efficient manner.

I pretty much main bird in 35 now. I'm 50 STR Rest dex. From my knowledge and experience so far it's not just the dmg on dex weapons but mostly low skill stats and outdated debuffs.

-30 Hit is irrelevant now. I've personally debuffed a mage with Max blind(-30 Hit) and 2 stacked Forg Bow proc(15 stacked twice so 30) that's-60 hit that you would think makes a difference but it doesn't. Bird needs more than a buff in DMG.

[burntoutdex]

I pretty much main bird in 35 now. I'm 50 STR Rest dex. From my knowledge and experience so far it's not just the dmg on dex weapons but mostly low skill stats and outdated debuffs.

-30 Hit is irrelevant now. I've personally debuffed a mage with Max blind(-30 Hit) and 2 stacked Forg Bow proc(15 stacked twice so 30) that's-60 hit that you would think makes a difference but it doesn't. Bird needs more than a buff in DMG.

experimenting with bird builds, again. 6blind is a necessity, the max hit% is 84, 6 blind brings them down to 54, meaning roughly a 1 in 2 to miss drain, light and fire. It's not irrelevant, it just isn't as good as it was 3 years ago. It is still a necessity, which subtracts from damaging skills, unfortunately.

[MageFFA]

experimenting with bird builds, again. 6blind is a necessity, the max hit% is 84, 6 blind brings them down to 54, meaning roughly a 1 in 2 to miss drain, light and fire. It's not irrelevant, it just isn't as good as it was 3 years ago. It is still a necessity, which subtracts from damaging skills, unfortunately.

It should be increased to at least 60. So far everything is good about bird outside of weak Damage on skills and gear. StS buffs that and add more Dodge to evasion and GG.