[1.16.5] Suggestion: Snow Queen bow rebalancing & enhancements

[ThousandFields]

The Snow Queen is able to drop two unique bows, the Tri-bow and Seeker bow.

Although they have their own uses, the Tri-bow has the potential to deal three times the damage of a normal bow, as it fires three arrows vertically that ignore immunity frames. This may cause balancing issues, especially with the Power enchantment, as its damage output becomes enough to nearly one-shot an iron golem at close range. I suggest making it weaker, but not unusable at range, by halving the damage of the secondary arrows fired by the Tri-bow. This would make the Tri-bow only deal double the damage a normal bow at close range instead of triple. Reducing the drawspeed is a possibility, but may be more annoying for players to use.

On the other hand is the Seeker Bow, which works better at range than its counterpart as it slightly homes into nearby enemies. However, it is unable to home onto players. This makes the Tri-bow objectively better than the Seeker bow for PvP scenarios. Having the Seeker Bow able to home onto players would not only balance out both bows for PvP, and would also not be an issue as the homing effect of the Seeker Bow is not very strong and is usually able to correct slightly misaimed shots at most.

[Tamaized]

One problem is bows do not control damage nor damage calculations, the arrow entity does. That's something we can't easily control without destroying mod compatibility or potion/spectral arrow usage.

[ThousandFields]

Oh, I see. Would making the bow draw back slower cause any issues? Or would there be a better way to nerf the bow?

[Tamaized]

A triple draw back time does sound like a good idea imo.

This'll prob get discussed between the devs at some point. Usually I like to get Benimatic's own input for situations like this as well before hand since he's still in creative control.

I'll report back whenever something is figured out.