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Don't allow the bow to be shot before it's fully charged

Currently, the bow can be used before it has been fully charged. This is a bit problematic - if you're a part of the PVP community, we've all been there with that kid who keeps spamming their bow just long enough for it to be able to reach us but just fast enough to keep us back and be really annoying. To improve PVP conditions and thus balance, this would work very well. It prevents spamming the bow, which is both annoying and a bad idea. You would now have to wait until the bow is fully charged. Combined with Bow Fatigue, this would also create a small window of time for the player to shoot.

Besides, in the real game, your goal is supposed to be hitting the big snipe on an enemy from a good distance away, not to drain as many arrows as you can.

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    Great idea, but full charged is maybe a bit much. I would say 1 second before being able to shoot. I believe the full charge is around 2 seconds?

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    Full charged is one second. Not being able to shoot before being fully charged is a bad idea, as you can just block with your shield or dodge the arrows. Besides, it'll do much less damage and knockback if it's not fully charged anyway.

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    I think this is a good idea - But I also feel like for this to work, bows should be slightly more powerful in consequence. If you think about it, if you're trying to attack a bow user on a real battlefield, you're not gonna just inch toward them and hope that they'll just hit your armor every time, or that your shield will hold up against the onslaught of arrows - You want to find cover, so they can't hit you in the first place.