Why is nobody talking about crossbows in 0.3?

People seem to be sleeping on crossbows right now.

Crossbow builds are getting a massive buff with the removal of the movement speed penalties for reloading/swapping ammo.

The new patch has big updates for many crossbow skills: Fragmentation Rounds, Incendiary Shot, Rapid Shot, Emergency Reload, and the tried and true Galvanic Shards. (Are there any I missed?)

Tactician is getting major buffs, and crossbows may be the weapon of choice for Tactician totem builds. Here is my reasoning: the base stats for totems are now your weapon’s; spears and bows are single-handed (technically not bows, but they use a quiver), whereas crossbows require both hands, so crossbows should have better stats. I am 100% too lazy to confirm this.

It seems like the herd wants to run either Open Palm or bows on Deadeye, so crossbows could be relatively cheap this league.

Is anyone planning to league start with crossbows? What ascendancy/build are you planning on using.

There are major bugs going on with the crossbow, no mention to fixes about these things, so if these "bugs" are still there all the so called buffs aren't really important if you can't properly play the weapon.

Skills got some major changes yes but some of them got their primary interaction completely removed.
I just want to mention siege cascade because it was my to go skill on tactician in 0.2, i can tell for sure this not going to play same way as before.

About other skills most are afraind that galvanic shards is unusable now but i'm not sure so i'll need to test it in the field before judging it.

I'm going to start mercenary as usual and pick Tactician and see what happens, i'll probably level up other characters as well but i'll start with that.

Shhh, keep quiet or GGG will bring down the nerf hammer...

Seriously though, I was thinking of trying Tactician this league. Haven't played Mercenary before but it looked fun in the reveal. But it's probably too early to tell how strong it will be compared to other builds, mainly because of the missing passive tree,

maybe i'll trye some stuff with the new high velocity rounds but i think it still wont be able to break armor wich ultimately will make me play something else :D

"

BigBeuss#5956 wrote:

maybe i'll trye some stuff with the new high velocity rounds but i think it still wont be able to break armor wich ultimately will make me play something else :D

Why you want to break armour with high velocity rounds, there's armour piercing round for that, skill rotation bro :D