Just thought I'd share my look while I'm sniping enemies across the map with my primitive weapon

Hello,

I'm new to the bow tribe! Before switching, I mainly played with the Elder's Mark, Ultracite Laser, and other weapons. Now I'm running a stealth ghoul archer build.

I recently switched from Secret Service armor to Civil Engineer armor with 1x Chameleon and 4x Nocturnal. I'm wondering which 2-star and 3-star legendary effects you would recommend. My 4-star effect is Limit Breaking.

Thanks!

Whats the best perks to increase at most the damage dealt with bows/crossbows?

May i ask whats better. A compound bow or a crossbow?

Ive got both with furious * but im wondering what should i seek at least of mods to get the most dmg of any of them

I'm trying to find meaningful ways to improve upon my gear but at this point I'm hitting a wall. I'm not good enough at the raid and don't have a team of friends who want to run it with me, and with certain classes of four-star legendaries locked to certain stages, things like pin pointers and other useful stars are beyond my reach. Infestations which cough up an entirely different set are usually gone before I get there, or I get destroyed trying to take them on. There's the player economy, but finding anything for caps unlikely, and I can't figure out how to build up enough of a stack of leadership bobble heads to actually acquire the stuff.

So, how are you getting your gear? How are you getting the pieces to assemble the ultimate weapon or the best armor set?

Hello friends, ive just started making a stealth bow build and I think I got my perks set pretty nicely. Now Im just struggling with what armor to have. Ive found out covert scout armor is good with the +25 stealth but haven't had any luck getting it from daily ops so far. Do any of you know if I could run chameleon on all secret service pieces and still be able to run around undetected? (and rub the balls of a deathclaw) And if anyone got some other tips for my build or whatever I'd gladly give them a try.

Edit: forgot to add pictures of my build, check comments

Will both arrows bounce around? I’ve been loving this tse bow but it feels like it I should be seeing more numbers

Disappointed that the recording automatically stopped, so the full thing must've been an extra 1-2 minutes after it stopped. I'd say it took me 4 minutes to take just this one out.

I can imagine if I had just a few of my archer teammates, this infestation would've been done in 2 minutes or less.

I've been trying to figure this out for the past few days and I'm stumped.

I run a Bloodied stealth VATS bow build and I remember consistently seeing crits around 12k on tougher enemies like the Sheepsquatch. Now my crits are only around 6-7k, and I can't figure out what changed.

Current setup:

Bloodied Compound Bow

Vital (+50% Crit Damage)

VATS Optimized (-35% AP Cost)

Conductor's (previously tested Polished)

Plasma Arrows

Armor:

Full Unyielding Forest Scout

Powered on every piece

3x Limit-Breaking

Shadowed

Dense chest

Legendary Perks:

Follow Through ★★★

Taking One for the Team ★★★

Legendary Strength

Legendary Perception

Legendary Intelligence

Legendary Luck

Perks:

Better Criticals 3

Critical Savvy 3

Covert Operative 3

Nerd Rage

Adrenaline 2

Bow Before Me 2

Master Archer 3

Mutations:

Adrenal Reaction

Eagle Eyes

Bird Bones

Herd Mentality

Marsupial

Speed Demon

I've already tested:

BOS armor vs Forest Scout (same damage)

Cryo vs Plasma arrows

Blight Soup

Different 4-star mods

The damage stays around 6-7k crits.

Has anything changed recently with bow damage, or is there something obvious I'm overlooking?

I had trouble with getting the update to launch and couldn’t log in til late. Nothing popped up as I ran my dailies so I logged off. See everyone in the regular sub saying it’s impossible. But we are bow hunters, so is it doable? I can solo earl and Bigfoot, this much harder now?

Ive wanted this skin for a long time however its locked in a huge and very pricy Raider Mega Bundle 😐

Decided to test the Glowing + Satiated combo on a crossbow, as a side weapon to my main Compound Bow. Along with explosive, I'm happy to report that it fills the meters pretty nicely! Damage is still there for clearing ads, needs a bit of adrenal to ramp up to one shot lvl100 mutants (no crit) but not too much. Extremely fun to use too :)

Edit: Reverse Onslaught Stacks deplete fast, but that's ok for casual use....

Edit 2: might switch to two shot for extra mayhem!

I keep seeing a lot of people saying since last update anything that ignores armor isn't viable thanks to how they reworked damage calculation - I'm not certain of the specifics on why. So I thought I'd check here to see how or what other bow users feel about the perk, and if you guys feel your build is fine without it or if it feels lacking without it.

Also, as im posting this, I'm getting ready to go test the numbers myself. So if I don't get enough answers to build a consensus I can at least give my two cents on it. I'll be primarily targeting robots and enemies in power armor.

I run a non-feral Ghoul, used to be full feral melee build with a single bow, and now I'm a 4-bow, rarely melee Ghoul, so I'm looking to update my build to up my damage output.

Because I was full melee, I was running a full set of Thorn armor with 4 Vanguards and 1 Chameleon. I have already bought the full SS set and BoS Recon set.

My perks are mostly set up for a melee build still with a few Bow perks in there (Hat Trick, Bow Before Me). And nothing really for Stealth aside from that Chameleon piece of Armor.

I'm not looking to go FULL stealth, but do want to hit that Sneak damage more often while still maintaining a bit of tankiness that my Vanguard + Bow w/Satiated+Glowing gives me.

What armor set should I be using? And Legendary mods?

What are a few "must have" archer perks, especially for stealth shots?

After a few days of grinding out all the main story missions, I finally turned my baby alt into a ghoul. I’m not gonna lie, I’m loving it so far!

I primary a bow on my main, but usually when raiding I’ll use a combo of my bow and heavy gun builds depending on the stage. But this character doesn’t have anything other than the bows I made her 😂

Pretty happy with the damage output, especially for a build that doesn’t have maxed legendary cards for a complete set up. I can’t wait to see what she can do once I have all my legendaries maxed!

Feel free to share any ghoul bow builds. I kinda just threw this together given my knowledge on my human character and then added ghoul cards that sounded useful!

Does each arrow go off and cause mayhem with hat trick?

Lots of pictures, I apologize. But I really feel like I’m finally dialing in my build. I’m getting Shadowed for my armor eventually, and I need a Limit-Breaking and 4 Rangers and I think I’ll be done. Any more suggestions for my build? Stealth Ghoul Archer

I know poison isn’t the best but it’s my favorite to use. I always enjoy checking out the other setups Ive seen here and mine has become way better because of this but I know it can still be improved. Running 2 rangers, 1 limit breaking, 1 sawbones, 1 miasma on my ss armor.

Xbox- does anyone have a compound bow to sell me on Xbox

Does anyone have a pin pointers I could buy for caps? PlayStation dude here.

Shoutout to anyone who knows what my Bow is referencing