You should wait for AA changes. The initial proposal looks like decent buffage, but I haven't heard anything about manyshot or slaying shot (potential nerfs) yet.

(We are still talking with the player's council about balance changes, but I wanted to give a teaser on what we are looking at for Manyshot and Ten Thousand Stars since it is relevant to this thread.)


We are considering changes to Many Shot and 10K Stars. We want a design that throws out fewer projectiles for server and client performance as missiles are actually expensive. We also want a design that doesn't require a doubleshot debuff.

Manyshot redesign: For the next 20 seconds you add your base attack bonus * 4 to your Doubleshot and Ranged Power. Using this ability places Ten Thousand Stars on a 30 second cool-down. (You no longer have a Doubleshot penalty applied.)

Ten Thousand Stars redesign: For the 30 seconds you add your Wisdom to your Doubleshot and Ranged Power. Using this ability places Manyshot on a 30 second cool-down. (You no longer have a Doubleshot penalty applied.)

Our goal is to make these abilities more efficient without reducing the overall DPS of ranged characters using one or both of these abilities.

Sev~

If they remove the Doubleshot penalty after Manyshot, bow users will be fine.

As is, the Manyshot changes don't help bow users.  Bow is still only usable for 30 seconds out of every 2 minutes.  The rest of the time you need to be a melee.  Or accept that you will have lackluster DPS.