Talk:Dread/@comment-24.74.4.230-20141002193405

bows are bad weapons in general. the simple fact is there is only a small amount of attack speed available on mods for rifle weapons so the charge time is still going to make you have at best 2 shots per second. thats just poor for dealing with the hordes of enemies the game throws at you. then add in the fact bows fire relatively slow projectiles that will cause more misses than a hit-scan weapon and you just have bad weapons.

maybe someone who puts in hundreds of hours learning the exact movement of every npc so they never miss can do respectable damage with one, but i have yet to see it in real play. bow users are always on the bottom of the list for damage done.

that said, this weapon produces red crits frequently which are nice to see. if this was a slower paced game where taking your time and placing aimed shots was the way to go, then this would be an amazing primary. however, this is not that type of game.