I found out I love bows, should I ditch my warlock?

[Ron]

New player here, started with a warlock and ran through the campaigns and got my first bow and I loooove it.

I read that bows are favored by hunters (warlock and titan jumps cancel bow), so I am upset about it.

Should I ditch my warlock and level a hunter?

[[-iD-]]

level all 3 for best experiences.

[Verios44]

You should get one of each class.

I am a warlock main and like my bows too, dunno about jump cancel, never really tried tbh.

[Paranochat]

You got the wrong idea, class doesn't really matter when choosing weapons. Just play the class you like the most with the weapons you like the most.

[ⓀⒾⓦⒾ‰]

i think people only say bows are for hunters because one of the hunter skills looks like a bow and thats it

[GensenPrime]

Bows are still useable by Warlocks. You shouldn't need to play a specific class just to use a certain weapon. I would level a hunter anyway just for 1. Gameplay variety and 2. Meta purposes for raids.

[Elena]

it doesnt matters at all what weapons you are using when choosing a class

[Jaenari]

You got 3 spots, make each class using the 3 races.

[zeus]

Get a single character to 950 and then use the cheap way of pushing the second and third characters to 950 by transfering your 950 weapons from main to second and third characters to boost power to 800+, then proceed to buy armour from collections multiple times (head, arms, body, legs, class item, repeat cycle to get the best out of each purchase) to sky rocket your power to 900-925, then collect armour from season pass rewards page to get some higher level drops that push you closer to 950. This happens because the game averages your power on each item slotted, if you have 950 weapons equipped, it means the grind to 950 should be much quicker, using the collections tab to buy armour simply pushes the drops closer to 950, skipping the "step by step" grind you have to do, that slowly pushes your drops to 950.

As for specific weapons being better in specific classes, that is mostly BS. That might only apply to hunters who want to wield swords because of their insane agility or due to specific armour perks that could favour a specific weapon type. Titans have an exotic chestplate that benefits the use of auto rifles or something like that, it is no big deal though as there are much better exotics out there to be used.

In the end it is all down to playstyle really, i play mostly as titan as it is the one class i can play the most aggressive role out of the 3. Warlock is usually versatile but i highly despise his jump and looks in general. The hunter is usually my secondary option to take a break from the titan, i play more carefully and tactical with the hunter.

[[-iD-]]

Originally posted by zeus:

Get a single character to 950 and then use the cheap way of pushing the second and third characters to 950 by transfering your 950 weapons from main to second and third characters to boost power to 800+, then proceed to buy armour from collections multiple times (head, arms, body, legs, class item, repeat cycle to get the best out of each purchase) to sky rocket your power to 900-925, then collect armour from season pass rewards page to get some higher level drops that push you closer to 950. This happens because the game averages your power on each item slotted, if you have 950 weapons equipped, it means the grind to 950 should be much quicker, using the collections tab to buy armour simply pushes the drops closer to 950, skipping the "step by step" grind you have to do, that slowly pushes your drops to 950.

As for specific weapons being better in specific classes, that is mostly BS. That might only apply to hunters who want to wield swords because of their insane agility or due to specific armour perks that could favour a specific weapon type. Titans have an exotic chestplate that benefits the use of auto rifles or something like that, it is no big deal though as there are much better exotics out there to be used.

In the end it is all down to playstyle really, i play mostly as titan as it is the one class i can play the most aggressive role out of the 3. Warlock is usually versatile but i highly despise his jump and looks in general. The hunter is usually my secondary option to take a break from the titan, i play more carefully and tactical with the hunter.

I did that originally, i think its best if you level them all in tandem so you get 2 extra shots at "powerful gear" weapons. as its my understanding that your classes share the level for weapons and not for armor.

[Boxer]

Bows are pretty mediocre in most activities, anyways you should use all 3 classes, if it's your first character try to find the class that you like the most and bring it to 950 to then level the other 2 from 750 to 940+ in a few mins (look on google if you don't know how to)

[strike478]

WHile some weapons fit better for certain class+subclass+codex combinations I dont think Bow is fo hunters only.
If hunters are good at mixing bow shoting with jumping perhaps warlock has other traits/perks which help with archery and which hunter has not.
Think, analyze and in worst case put bow into locke start as hunter and pick the same bow from the locker.

It is very good idea to try out 2nd character or even have 3 and keep switching between them.

[Flori281]

Use whatever you want. Bows are favored by Hunters because they have an exotic that buffs nock speed and allows you to hold arrows indefinitely, not because of any jump shenanigans. So if you care that much then sure switch to Hunter but if you love Warlock so much I don't think it's worth it.

[LordBrocktree4]

@sneezes, if you use top tree dawnblade warlock, you can fire bows and other weapons mid-drift. Otherwise, like all other weapons, not just bows, you will be unable to fire while drifting. Bows work just fine on the ground, though, and can be a heckofalotta fun. My personal favorites are the Black Armory kinetic bow, The Spiteful Fang, and the energy bow Arsenic Bite, which when combined with the dragonfly perk+the dragonfly spec mod, makes landing precision shots unleash some pretty devastating arc explosions. If you've got the season pass, Leviathan's Breath is fun, too, though it's best used against larger enemies.

[Hate Army]

If this was a real RPG, you'd want to switch, but the classes have no real differences like that between them. There's slight differences between them, like the abilities, but the playstyles are pretty much the same.

[zeus]

Originally posted by Arise Chicken:

bows are low dps by default and suck for end game content. with that said literally any class can use them and no class gets extra bonuses for it. That one exotic hunters have for bows is hot garbage and is out done by stompees

Bows aren't that bad. They might fall short in group endgame activities because the meta is usually shotty/sniper/pulse, but bows are pretty damn good for endgame activities when played solo, such as heroic missions and strikes. The advantage of bows is similiar to fusions, you can "charge", deal some damage and hide, repeat this process for best usage. Of course, there is the problem with splash damage from enemies, but this isn't a thing with all the enemies, it is mostly large units that do this stuff and nades.

The problem with bows is the lack of variety in the perks and type of bows. Bungie should consider adding new types of bows to the game, similiar to the other weapon types, you have slow, med and fast ARs for example. We could use shortbows, longbows and crossbows. Shortbows being the quick hitting bows with mediocre range, longbows being the slower hitting bows with longer range and crossbow being the "hit like a truck" option that is slower to get ready/reload.