[2022] About Varunastra and the recent bugfix

It was broken. Not in the sense of being unbalanced, it caused crashes in serveral cases and incorrect behaviour in a lot more. None of the stuff for bows is set up to happen with the off hand, and this leads to crashes or stats that can't work correctly. Melee and ranged weapons skills have different requirements for animation data for different cases.

The amount of work that would be needed to legitimately allow Varunastra to function as a wand is prohibitive, and as a bow is much more so again.

Technically we didn't showcase it being able to do that, we showed an image of some theoretical possible future ascendancy stuff with no implementation. It had a text descrtiption and nothing else.

Regardless, that doesn't run into the same problem. In that case you're using melee skills with a main-hand weapon, while treating it as a melee weapon type, which is something they already handle.

Bow skills not handling off-hand stuff is entirely different.

That potential future mechanic has some hurdles of it's own, but they aren't nearly as big has making all the code related to and interfacing with bow abilities work with off-hand weapons & animations.

You can use those supports with Varunastra. You justcan't use them with skills that have conflicting weapon requirements - Varunastra has nothing to do with that.