Search for the armor piercing bow...

Just read in an interview that ONE of the bows has latent armor piercing [as in not stupid like sundering's %]

I did a search in this forum and found nothing regarding "Armor Piercing Bow".

I think the Horn Bow is the one with latent armor piercing but I'm not sure if I can find the thread that justifies this.

I'm a beast build. [remote control warrior] and need to do as much damage as possible with what little marksmanship I have with my beast dealing the full brunt...

I figured an armor piercer at range would work. [I'm not going in close with short/half-moons unless I get charged... I want my pet to aggro, not myself.]

Currently, my combat set should consist of...

The 'armor piercing bow' [still guessing it's horn bow]
Longbow [for moving targets at range]
Flatbow [for stationary targets at range, most likely being tanked]
Half-Moon [for when I screwed up and I'm the tank...]

In general I'd use the armor piercer but depending on situation, I'd switch up to the others. I'd probably use a crippling bow since I don't do poison, sundering sucks, and that degen from zealous counteracts Ferocious Strike {E}. [then again, I may just get 4 zealous anyway due to cripple being curable quickly] All of them would be Zealous of Fortitude in any case...

ANet has never officially come out and said which one has armor piercing inherent to it. Gaile has said in a past interview though that one of them does. It is believed to be the horn bow but this is purely based on the Prima guide which says that. I don't believe anyone has done any formal testing to confirm it.

horn bow is the best bow to be use with quickshot.

I have no direct knowledge of bows, but you might want to try out the different types of 'evil' bows. ie: dead bows.

For Wands, Dark Damage ignores armor. If there is a bow that deals Dark Damage, it should ignore armore as well.

I was mucking around with this and this is what I found. With a 14-27 horn bow I did 16-41 dmg.

With a max dmg, customized Storm Bow, I did 14-24.

Holy crap, thats a difference! I thought not customizing the horn bow was gonna screw up the experiment, but it only further proved the point, I think.

[edit] For more info, I was experimenting on the lone rockshot devourer outside augury rock in prophets path.

Im pretty darn sure thats wrong. I believe that holy/dark/shadow damage only ignores armor with skills.

There's a bit of misinformation in here:

-No bow deals damage other than piercing, unless it has one of the three elemental mods.
-All weapons take into account armor. Spells, on the other hand, that are holy-based, chaos-based, or necromancer/darkness based will ignore armor.

The main bows that reportedly penetrate armor are all in the horn bow class. These include: Horn bows, Shadow bows, and Ivory bows. I might've missed one, but that's all that comes to mind.

Also, if dead bows follow the same trend as dead staves, there can be many different types, including horn dead bows.