Skeletons’ rate of fire is too high

Pillagers manage to get there first shot in super sonic speed somehow. Most of the other shots are normal tho. 

Skeletons and Strays are yes.

This issue affects Pillagers and other ranged mobs too

A video to compare would be helpful. I personally have not played Java and I’ve never thought the rate of fire of enemies was a problem. Sure you can’t just walk up and slap them between shots. I find that to be a satisfying challenge.

Glad I'm not the only one experiencing this. I play Bedrock Edition on a realm and I've noticed pillagers consistently shoot faster with crossbows than I do with my bow - sometimes so fast it seems like less than a second between each shot. I haven't noticed it so much with skeletons or strays but I don't fight them nearly as often as I do pillagers (consequence of making my base in a pillager outpost tower 😛). I'll try to get a video of it next time I play.

I have to agree with helmet on this one and I've been fighting them in a soul sand valley on hard.  A shield is useful and then... well I'll just say that there are other legit things that you can do to 'manage' the situation.

A comparison of shooting speeds on Java and Bedrock editions: https://imgur.com/a/u7IBFfS
On Java, the shooting speed is consistent regardless of distance and difficulty
On Bedrock, the shooting speed is faster the closer you get to the skeleton, and independent of difficulty.

Thanks for the direct video comparison. I can see the difference in rate of fire. However, it's also glaringly obvious that Bedrock skeletons completely lack the defensive strafing and backing off behavior that Java skeletons have. So I don't think it's very meaningful to compare the ROF by itself. The skeleton mob is just implemented differently in Java and Bedrock. I would have resolved this ticket as an invalid feature request, but it has already been confirmed and forwarded to the developers, so it will have to wait for their resolution.

If this is still relevant, this bug affects 1.16.201.

Noticed this as well immediately after playing Java. In Java, you can see the Skeleton do the charge-up animation and shoot. Nothing like this in Bedrock, they shoot so fast it's impossible to get close to them

I find it really annoying that I cannot attack skeletons without a shield, it is way too hard to kill them. Please fix this issue

Testing in 1.20.62, skeletons standing 6 blocks away from iron golem shoot every 2 seconds, which is expected based on the Bedrock 1.20.70.24 Preview and Java Snapshot 24w07a changelogs.

However, a skeleton standing right next to an iron golem shoots every 1.5 seconds, and a skeleton standing 15 blocks away shoots every 3 seconds. So, the rate of fire scales with distance, which seems odd.

The skeleton and stray behavior files contain the following lines in behavior.ranged_attack:

"attack_interval_min": 1.0,
          "attack_interval_max": 3.0,

Apparently these do not set min and max time for random attack intervals, but instead set the attack interval to scale between a min and max time proportional to the distance between the attacking mob and its target.

their rate of fire is based on the distance the player is being attacked by the skeleton, the stray and now the bogged, if you are closer to him, he will fire the arrow faster.