Bow Changes in New World Patch 1.1

New World's Patch 1.1 brought some bug fixes for the Bow; however, several of the tricks that allowed you to quickly fire off consecutive shots have been removed, making this an overall nerf patch for the Bow. There have also been a variety of balance changes to several of the abilities and perks, for which you can read the details below.

For a full guide on the Bow, please refer to our dedicate page.

Listed below are the official patch notes for changes to the Bow abilities, perks, and masteries.

• Fixed an issue that allowed consecutive primary attacks to be fired faster than intended.
• Updated descriptions for Rain of Arrows, Poison Shot, and Splinter Shot to indicate that they cannot headshot.
• Fixed an issue with several Bow abilities not benefiting from increased damage from higher tier arrows.

• Go the Distance — This upgrade now applies Haste at the end of the ability, rather than at the start, so that the buff duration is not partially lost during the skill animation.

• Reduced cooldown of Poison Shot from 35 to 30 seconds.
• Fixed an issue that could cause Poison Shot to go on cooldown without the ability being fired.

• Reduced cooldown from 20 to 14 seconds.
• Rapid Accuracy — Fixed an issue where this upgrade would not reduce the cooldown if the last arrow of Rapid Shot killed the enemy.

• Rain of Arrows no longer hits enemies through doors.

• Fixed an issue where hip-firing with the Bow was triggering the Heightened Precision passive from the Musket ability tree.