More patch without fixing bows

I don't think I'm shooting everyone down for actual suggestions, I'm a bit concerned about the quality decline in the pvp threads though. When people make 20 1 sentence threads that x-y is overpowered and don't say anything else.

Anyway here is how I would balance pvp.

Balance changes happen after the invitational event is done, which is supposed to have the best players with the most OP builds. The results and the builds participating provide a great view on balance. After this balancing happens nothing gets changed until the next invitational except for bug fixes.

In regards to the current meta - sure ranged is very strong, but so is melee. Tornado shot is probably too strong, traps with point blank are very strong as well, but the real killer is the ability of ranged to kite you. I don't think numeric changes to skills can ever bring a balance, and taking away mobility from ranged when they just received it would be stupid. I don't think ranged needs nerfing, maybe melee and other builds need buffing, not in terms of damage but utility.

No, that's not true. Flicker was emergency balanced IMMEDIATELY, even though it couldn't hold a candle the current OP metas. All bow skills are too strong. A barrage bower can out-melee in point blank range. You could say what you want, you can give me advice, it doens't matter. Fact is, bows are unjustifiably strong, block is unjustifiably low, and as a result we have bowers that can run arrow spam arrows, mirror, blink, smoke mine for the simplest wins I've ever seen. We can continue to make the same quality posts over and over again, but as long as we're spamming that it's OP, the same vote is out there. GGG knows how and why bows are OP, I don't need to explain anything to them.

so you think that a very vocal minority can bring on changes?

I'm not saying that I disagree with bows being OP. I just don't think that creating 1 new thread every other day will bring on any changes sooner.

a very vocal minority? dude when Selminus was qq-ing about flicker strike, AND HE WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO QQ'D ABOUT FLICKER STRIKE, it was immediately nerfed.

now you get way more guys complaining about bow and traps yet nothing is being done?

edit: just so i can give my two cents about the balance, i'd say bow damage is fine, nado damage can be nerfed quite a bit (15-20%) to account for it's ability to hit around corners, but the real killer is the interaction of puncture, trap and point blank. Also the mobility.

cut both trap and point blank 25% in pvp, also give blink mirror a slightly longer (1-2s) cooldown.