I'm sure all the devs have received numerous feedback on bows but I just wanted to share my thoughts. I'm an avid bow main (which I distinguish from a bow swap main) with around 60,000 bow crucible kills if my tracker is to be believed. I understand the reasoning behind giving bows a 30% nerf (24% for lw [15% initial nerf and 15% more HP to guardians]) as it was intended to hit blinting and laneing hard especially with the changes to the special ammo economy. The result, however, is that bows are now one of the least used archetypes in the entire game having only peaked recently at 5.8% or something like that according to Mercules. While blinting is effectively dead, it has left bows as the worst primary and unable to compete with any sort of other archetype. For long range, I am shredded by pulses and scouts as I have to peek twice so they know exactly where to prefire (and it's not feasible to perform an accurate jump shot at the range.) For mid to short range, sidearms, smgs, shotguns, and hand cannons demolish me. Even if I get the first shot, redrawing and trying to aim through flinch is very difficult to the point of futility. Frankly the only way any bow main makes them work currently is well by bow swapping with an ability (knives being most common) or a glaive which I thought was the whole point of the nerf: to not encourage that sort of playstyle. Because of the special ammo changes (or at least with the transmat system) and the fact that scoring kills with just a bow as your primary is very difficult and inconsistent, I often can't run a shotgun which leaves me open to almost anyone pushing me. It does feel kind of discouraging to have put almost 2,000 hours into a game and do better with weapons that I have barely touched before vs the one that I love and have spent almost 1000 hours trying to master. With all this said, if a couple changes were made, I believe bows would still be balanced but competitive and the changes would not need to be much. [b][i][u]Let's play into their fantasy: Reduce the draw time of lw bows from 500 down to 400 and give them falloff of 35m allowing them to be used for CQC. Reduce the draw time of precision's down to 500 and 476 with Oathkeepers and give them a falloff distance of 45m. Give precisions a 3% damage increase to allow sundering to proc on any resil (thank you whoever stealth buffed that origin trait) and keep all the other damage the say. Bows would still require two crits to kill but they could actually be usable. Please make changes similar to this. I really want to enjoy the game again playing with the weapon I love. Thank you and cheers.