Crossbow skills feedback

In a wierd way the clunky crossbow became my favourite weapon to use but it has few HUGE issues
1)crossbow still get "stuck" and doesn't fire after a reload and sometimes after a Roll .
2)crossbow not having a quiver is a big downside ,bow quiver opens alo of build options crossbow should definitely have a Bolt sack or something similar to quiver
3) reload speed - it did became a Lot better in 0.2 but yet , in the early game it feels terrible and all people I heard say the same thing "why struggle whit realod speed when u can use a bow "
4)Extra load&Round in general ,at least half of the cross bow skills have Low Round count in the clip which make them Unplayable and not fun to use , to properly use them u must have extra load implicit + at least 1 extra Load on suffix and those are extremely rare suffixes not to mantion the crossbow whit the Extra load implicit has low reload speed this whole mess turns crossbow skills into a Mess and not fun experience to play whit them
Not to mantion some skills have 1 round in the clip and then u go to reload animation that gets stuck .
5)crossbow skills : most of the crossbow skills do Zero dmg and unusable both early and endgame best way to level a crossbow is basically use a normal Crossbow shoot till u get to Galvanic or explosive(1round is terrible) )

Crossbow one of the least used weapons because it's clanky gets stuck on reload&roll and doesn't Fire , has Low Rounds count on all skill except rapid and shockburst
Extra load suffix is so freaking Rare that u can craft thousands of crossbows and the chances of getting extra load is Slim it's Extremely rare

Most crossbow skills require u to use so many skills most potential build are not even possible to play on a controller because it requires way to many skill button ,it requires to many skills to be combined together to actually "properly work "
I a game that is so Fast u don't have the time to set up all those nice thing not to mantion the Plasma shoot that does have a crazy dmg but is unusable unless it's used to nuke a spawning boss no where else u can take the time to stand still and Charge a skill
Some skills require a detonator which only raises the number of buttons
Let's say u use a Explosive shoot it's already 2 skill buttons Emergency reload 1 button Explosive grenede 1 button , cluster grenede 1 button , old grenede 1 skill buttons ,rapid 1 button
A button for roll and pick up items it's 2ay to many buttons for a controller and it's one example of many crossbow build are hard to fit on a controller unless all u play is Galvanic/Explosive round +shockburst rounds build which requires the least buttons ,Crossbow doesn't feel good to use on a controller .

I play exclusively on a controller on PC and I spent over 700 hours on crossbow already and that is my opinion, Crossbow need more love , need more dmg on many skills need higher atk speed scaling on many skills and needs more Round per clip , extra Load affix Must be very Common to roll on crossbow since many skills limit ur round count very highly .
U can even check how many players play on crossbows and what skills they use and u will see how bad the situation really is .
Make crossbows feel good and not anoying constantly struggling to make it work somehow and Maybe do enough dmg to kill something .

Level 76 merc.

My crossbow didnt have any problem with reloading/animation.
Not a single time.

There is one exception, but its NOT crossbow related.
The weapon WONT fire, if your mouse cursor points/lays on item description.
It should be re-programed from devs how this is working.

I spend a lot of hours playing with crossbow style from the beginning. I'm now 95 level and keep walking to 96 with slow but stable steps.

Crossbow had a lot of issues when the game released to early access.The 3 most important are:

1) A lot of investments that make passive points seem like dust in the wind.

2) Missing one extra gear slot that will solve the huge injustice between crossbows and bows. A gear like quiver in bows is essential for crossbows mechanism.

3) Reload time is pain in the a.s. Most time deaths come from this. If you surrounded and crossbow stucks,jams,reloads (whatever) you'll get a certain death.

After all with many attempts to Steam voice and Poe2 site, we managed convincing Devs to raise a little bit the damage to Crossbows. Thanks for that but is not enough to fill the injustice gap between bows and crossbows.

i also have huge problems when it comes to firing after some actions, like OP say, it just do not fire many times, mostly after doge, reload, weaponswap, travelskill, ...
but also i think the character animation is a factor here. the fact your body can turn around while your feet stay in place sometimes feel like the body turning is to slow, if you click to fast on one monster and then on one that forces your body to turn to be able to hit, then you eighter dont shoot at all or just not there where you clicked.

i also think mana gets an issue with high lvl gems, my reloading cost 124 mana with a lvl19+4 gem (so lvl23). it's also q20 (+2) and +1 extra bolt on crossbow. so i have 4 rounds per clip. i can reload 5 times then i am empty!

also
eighter some bosses and mobs or the Glacial Bolt or the crossbow is bugged.
there are bosses like the big skeleton one that comes out of the hole, idk what is wrong there, but with glacial bolts you can't hit this boss at all, like 1 of 20 rounds actualy hit the boss.
same goes for other bosses that are "out of the arena" like the huge statue one with the knife.
many mobs like the huge and the tiny underground worms, the most mobs with shields, the mobs with this "ghostly aura", many of the tiny monsters, and many more, just gets knocked back without doing ANY damage to them!
thats such a nightmare i started using lightning spear in weaponswap, just so i am able to do any damage on these mobs/bosses.

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Annastasia_Steele#3866 wrote:

Level 76 merc.

My crossbow didnt have any problem with reloading/animation.
Not a single time.

There is one exception, but its NOT crossbow related.
The weapon WONT fire, if your mouse cursor points/lays on item description.
It should be re-programed from devs how this is working.

Play longer u will see the issues

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teobibu#1278 wrote:

I spend a lot of hours playing with crossbow style from the beginning. I'm now 95 level and keep walking to 96 with slow but stable steps.

Crossbow had a lot of issues when the game released to early access.The 3 most important are:

1) A lot of investments that make passive points seem like dust in the wind.

2) Missing one extra gear slot that will solve the huge injustice between crossbows and bows. A gear like quiver in bows is essential for crossbows mechanism.

3) Reload time is pain in the a.s. Most time deaths come from this. If you surrounded and crossbow stucks,jams,reloads (whatever) you'll get a certain death.

After all with many attempts to Steam voice and Poe2 site, we managed convincing Devs to raise a little bit the damage to Crossbows. Thanks for that but is not enough to fill the injustice gap between bows and crossbows.

Yeap , most crossbow skills are dead nobody uses them at all

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Krogbarg#7566 wrote:

i also have huge problems when it comes to firing after some actions, like OP say, it just do not fire many times, mostly after doge, reload, weaponswap, travelskill, ...
but also i think the character animation is a factor here. the fact your body can turn around while your feet stay in place sometimes feel like the body turning is to slow, if you click to fast on one monster and then on one that forces your body to turn to be able to hit, then you eighter dont shoot at all or just not there where you clicked.

i also think mana gets an issue with high lvl gems, my reloading cost 124 mana with a lvl19+4 gem (so lvl23). it's also q20 (+2) and +1 extra bolt on crossbow. so i have 4 rounds per clip. i can reload 5 times then i am empty!

also
eighter some bosses and mobs or the Glacial Bolt or the crossbow is bugged.
there are bosses like the big skeleton one that comes out of the hole, idk what is wrong there, but with glacial bolts you can't hit this boss at all, like 1 of 20 rounds actualy hit the boss.
same goes for other bosses that are "out of the arena" like the huge statue one with the knife.
many mobs like the huge and the tiny underground worms, the most mobs with shields, the mobs with this "ghostly aura", many of the tiny monsters, and many more, just gets knocked back without doing ANY damage to them!
thats such a nightmare i started using lightning spear in weaponswap, just so i am able to do any damage on these mobs/bosses.

BTW additional crossbow skills have the same issue hitting that boss ur hits just don't register on him I use explosive round and grenedes now both of them "miss" the target very often doesn't matter how close or far I stand

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UnholyKirin#7925 wrote:

BTW additional crossbow skills have the same issue hitting that boss ur hits just don't register on him I use explosive round and grenedes now both of them "miss" the target very often doesn't matter how close or far I stand

the real bad thing is, i already play MOSTLY with lightning spear and use glacial bolt only to finish HP-Sponges or block the swarming mobs to explode the crystals with LS after :D

95% of players that use crossbow, make use of Galvanic Shards skill.

It's one way option to Endgame considering the reload time as extra pain to the slow mechanism of the other skills.

It's a shame that is the only skill that can prevent you from the massive surrounding attacks. If i use for example Fragmentation of round sooner or later in the time between reloading and next shot, i will be dead.

Devs brought variation gems in width angle and perfect timing in bows. Why not give Crossbows such options.

I want to fire Fragmentation of round with DPS
I want to fire 3 bolts ( not 6) in a small width angle as bows.
I want to fire without the need of reloading.
I want to fire Galvanic shards with 2 bolts and with more damage each.

Give us variation, Crossbow skills are s..t!

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UnholyKirin#7925 wrote:

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teobibu#1278 wrote:

I spend a lot of hours playing with crossbow style from the beginning. I'm now 95 level and keep walking to 96 with slow but stable steps.

Crossbow had a lot of issues when the game released to early access.The 3 most important are:

1) A lot of investments that make passive points seem like dust in the wind.

2) Missing one extra gear slot that will solve the huge injustice between crossbows and bows. A gear like quiver in bows is essential for crossbows mechanism.

3) Reload time is pain in the a.s. Most time deaths come from this. If you surrounded and crossbow stucks,jams,reloads (whatever) you'll get a certain death.

After all with many attempts to Steam voice and Poe2 site, we managed convincing Devs to raise a little bit the damage to Crossbows. Thanks for that but is not enough to fill the injustice gap between bows and crossbows.

Yeap , most crossbow skills are dead nobody uses them at all

I played like 1000hrs++ as a crossbow user, I strongly agree with OP