Thoughts on PTR Bow

So I think I might be the only Bow player that actually isn’t a fan of the bow changes and hear me out on this. After having played the PTR a bit, I think the changes make bow too easy. The heavy change is good for sure, heavies needed a rework, but the larger hit boxes and faster fire rate, I don’t like.

The way it is right now, bow is a very high skill / high reward weapon. Most people will already tell you that fighting a skilled bow user is a nightmare, but most of the time, when you get owned by a bow, you don’t blame the bow, you just go “damn, they’re good”. The PTR bow significantly lowers that skill gap on a good vs mediocre bow player and I have a feeling that this will lead to many cries of bow being overpowered. It’ll be fun for the first month or two and then they’ll have to nerf bow damage into the ground to the point where it just won’t feel rewarding to play anymore.

Of course, I could be wrong, but that’s just the way I see things going right now. Let me know your thoughts on it and why you think this is a good or bad change :)