Arrow Volley is an useless marksmen spell nowadays, it's rarely used by marksmen due to its difficulty in hitting targets, although its damage is about 25% higher than that of Hellish Volley. So, this spell is much like the Mortal Melody was before the last balancing changes for shamans, after that update Mortal Melody become really useful, a spell that previously only took up space and did not help the subclass it belongs to.

Today, Arrow Volley has only 5 sqm and it's interesting to change some spells like it to make them useful, especially for a subclass that needs something new because it's so far below the others in terms of PvE damage.

Rogues have the Traps spell that help them slow down mobs and make them take constant damage. So my proposal is around Arrow Volley because this spell also reduces the speed of monsters, making it easier to hit their waves spells, especially Piercing Shot.

Another issue caused by low damage is marksmen are rarely seek for party hunts what discourages most players who like to hunt in a group to stay in this subclass or new players/characters to choose it for their own.

Marksman's damage per second is considerably below that of the others 'damage subclasses' that's the reason it needs a few improvements to make marksmen gameplay as viable as rogues' gameplay has become today, i mean pleasant and efficient.

So my proposal to Arrow Volley is:

1) Decrease the cooldown from 5 seconds to 3 seconds.

2) Expand the area from the 5 sqm on cross shape to 3x3 around the target.

3) Enable for this spell to be a targeted spell.

4) Keep the main target / center of the volley slowed down by 40% and all the other tiles slowed down by 20% (as it already works today).

5) Maintain its damage since it's around 25% above hellish volley damage to focus on increasing the AoE damage of the marksman subclass.

Like I said: the staff is lazy.

And they will not proove me wrong, you can bet on that.

Marksman is irrelevant, the new continent on benq is a non finished update... what about them saying that about the rat season mount: that is a new style of animation that we will use on new features, new mobs, bla bla bla.... ok, where are those ? I dont see new mobs, quests, citys, builds...
What about the fact that they destroyed the value of 4k task point weapons ?

Nevermind, look, everything feels right cuz theres a new hardcore hunting area with the good old mobs as always, and also some new exp boosts. Sweet.

marksman has been near useless for a long time now pve and pvp wise, only thing they have is a drunk and slow but rouges can evade and use traps to slow. Rouge is 100% better in every aspect of the game.