Bow Rapid Combo v3 - Complete Balance and Integration Patch

Bow Rapid Combo V3 is amazing, but completely broken from a game-play perspective. I've gone through it all, edited many animations, added stamina costs, redid damage calculations and used existing animations as a way to add in new moves.

When going through how it works I found that all damage is controlled by setting crit to 100% and adding on crazy crit damage multipliers. This stacked with existing multipliers resulting in absurd numbers that completely broke the game. Ive redone it all from scratch and added different scaling to the different moves. No more using crit, its a broken terrible stat. Now it will scale your damage as normal, the values are as follows;

Damage Scaling: 

Charge/Power Shot phase 1 - 175% damage

Charge/Power Shot phase 2 - 250% damage

Perfect Shot - 87. 5% damage x2 for a total of 175% if both arrows hit

Rapid Shot - 75% damage and cannot crit

Weak Shot - 25% damage and cannot crit

Stamina Costs: 

Charge/Power Shot - unchanged, there are many mods which add a cost to keeping the bow drawn which work perfect.

Perfect Shot - 10 stamina consumed if you hit a perfect shot.

Rapid Shot - 25 stamina per shot, this means the left and right rapid shots cost 50 stamina total and the back and standing ones cost 25.

Bow Sprint attack - 30 stamina

Weak Shot - 10 stamina

New Animation Mechanics: 

Perfect shot - timing window reduced by half. Much harder to hit now while still being very doable with proper skill and timing.

Rapid shot - gave it very tight iFrame windows, back shot gets . 25 seconds and the left and right get . 15 seconds

Bow Sprint attack - 125% damage and scales with archery level.

Weak Shot - when trying to use a bow combo ability while out of stamina, you will perform a weak rapid shot for 25% damage

Game-Play Design:

There are now multiple ways to optimize your damage in any situation. Charging your shots is the most stamina-efficient method for high damage. Rapid-firing can quickly destroy a target but will drain your stamina fast. Perfect Shots reward precision with strong damage, while Phase-1 charged shots offer the same damage without the risk of missing at the cost of a longer charge time. Phase-2 charge shots obliterate enemy health bars if you can manage to get it off but its very difficult while being rushed down. If you use bow combo attacks with no stamina, you’ll fire a single weak rapid shot that deals very low damage and still costs 10 stamina, keeping you in a weakened state even longer.

Aren't you forgetting the daggers?

Glad you asked, there's an optional patch to remove them from your crafting menus if you want, I don't use them and have no intention of doing anything with them. A bit too anime for my taste.