[renowner]

Don't particularly think an excel bow breaks the game any more than the others. Kiss farewell lacks Elite Engine, which is crazy ridiculously strong.
Hard agree on both points.
A miss should still use up a charge. It makes sense ,and charges are so strong that having this nerf should still end up fine. If the dodge fails ,well good game, you just got one shot.
And persistent charges should no longer be a thing. Ends up being too grimey. Same with Astral belt. Astral belt is way less op, but still it gets a bit grimey when people want to do a few fights to max buff out before attacking another player.

A system to set up ambushes where you start up buffed could be cool, to discuss at another time for those types of situations at least.
Then it opens up the door for an excel potential down the line to retain the old 'starts battle with charges' thing.