The Bo

[Brimir]

Hot or not?

 

The Wiki is full of people who either loud it as the greatest weapon ever, and people who says it does nothing in-game at all.

 

So which is it?

 

[Rawmelon789]

i might say in the middle cause its quite good in lower levels but when you get to the higher levels it kinda sucks(unless you mod it so powerfully it does not even resemble the original bo at all)

[Brimir]

I think the biggest question is:

 

Bo, do you even stagger?

 

Some say it staggers on every hit; some say it doesn't stagger at all.

[Endrance]

Dude the question is more like this:

 

Do intend to kill with bow? If yes, those lvl 20 and bellow will fear you. Since you will hardly kill anything higher than that. BUT, Bo is a CC AoE weapon.

 

If it doesn't stagger the enemy, it send him flying.

 

It's a cheap weapon, make it, and test it yourself. You won't regret it

[Brimir]

I don't have the weapon slots to spare in order to test it myself. The sending enemies flying-part is also disagreed upon amongst the wiki users though...

[CY13ERPUNK]

the wiki articles themselves are prolly 75% reliable

the comments below the articles I would say less than 50% reliable, if that even

[MaxImpact]

It's meh; like Scott mentioned in the Livestream yesterday, there are weapons that are meant for early, mid and late game, and the Bo is definitely a early-mid game weapon. New players will love it. Those of us with weapons like the Orthos laugh at it.

[squaresphere]

It's an alright starter weapons but it doesn't scale well compared to some of the others.

 

MaxImpact is right though about certain weapons being useful during different phases of the game.

 

I went Bo-> Amphis -> Orthos. 

[Darzk]

It has a great range, a pretty decent attack speed.

It ignores armor and doesnt deal extra damage to light infested.

 

I find the autoattack animation awkward, but the charge attack is very quick, if not hard hitting, and has a great range without reach.

 

I liked it for midgame, but having to take 2-3 charged attacks to kill light units got old really fast. I sold it just the other day to make room for something else.

 

The knockback-flying thing is overstated. If you dont kill something, they get knocked back - but its not very far at all, not like the Kogake or Kestrel. Its still a decent CC, but no more effective imo than a stagger melee weapon. Plus you gotta go track th enemy down or shoot it, which kinda defeats imo the purpose of a close quarters weapon.

 

Then again, I hated the kestrel, so ./grain of salt

[Brimir]

It scales badly? By the laws of Warframe, shouldn't something that has Armour Ignore scale relatively well?

Edited August 15, 2013 by Brimir