Bow speed / rapid shot bug

[Sylla]

Bug Report Number:

000000000

Hi, i dont know if this is a known bug and im not really sure whats the source of it but here is what i found today:

Character without Rapid Shot feat fires almost twice as faster as character that has this feat.
I only made a few tests, but character level 1 without Rapid shot fires about 35 arrows in 20 seconds.
Character level 1 with the Rapid shot fires about 20 arrows in 20 seconds.

Its very rough test but the difference is huge. Dont know if it affects other weapons, but most likely yes.
Also it appears to me that the firing speed without Rapid shot is way faster than it should be. So there is probably more to it than just the feat.

I have not reported it fully, if anyone has more info, please make a more conprehensive report.

 

[Voidstorm]

Hi, i dont know if this is a known bug and im not really sure whats the source of it but here is what i found today:

Character without Rapid Shot feat fires almost twice as faster as character that has this feat.
I only made a few tests, but character level 1 without Rapid shot fires about 35 arrows in 20 seconds.
Character level 1 with the Rapid shot fires about 20 arrows in 20 seconds.

Its very rough test but the difference is huge. Dont know if it affects other weapons, but most likely yes.
Also it appears to me that the firing speed without Rapid shot is way faster than it should be. So there is probably more to it than just the feat.

I have not reported it fully, if anyone has more info, please make a more conprehensive report.

Yeah, I noticed the same thing. Its a pretty decent difference.

 

[Lithol]

This bug is not with bows only, but rather all ranged attacks. Also, the bug is not specific to only having rapid shot or not, but rather a character gets a huge attack speed increase if they do not have any effects on them that alter attack speed (be it feats like rapid shot, haste spell or something else).

 

[Abramax]

I just hope that they will give us the higher attack speed "bugged bonus" permanently active (for bows at least) because the actual "normal" attack speed is a nightmare, especially on low levels. Even on high levels, the gameplay feel so much better with that attack speed. I remember posts explaining that devs were not able to increase attack speed with bows cause of the animation but this divine "bug" show us that they can greatly increase attack speed for bow users and it is an awesome feeling of pleasure to shoot arrows so quickly OMG !!! Bows just always should have been like this since day 1 of DDO Hallelujah ! Bows are slowest ranged weapons, even slower than great crossbows, come on, I think it s time to adjust that and give us the fun we were waiting for 17 years...

 

[Yavool]

This bug is also present for rapid reload as it interacts with Communion of Scribing and haste. The attack speed stat shows 21% regardless of whether Communion is active or not (Communion claims to give 15% attack speed), and then post-cast, the rate of speed drops dramatically. The only remedy is to log in and out, which resets it back to rapid reload level (using dual heavy crossbows in Inquisitive tree).

This is very impactful, as it reduces the crossbow rate of fire at character L5 from 72 shots/minute to 48 shots/minute (a reduction of 33% SPM), and again, the only remedy is to logout and log back in again. I am hopeful that the DDO devs provide a hotfix for this asap!

-yav