Zons are getting nerfed yet again. The screen res is basically a nerf to all long-range projectile based chars, and is also a buff to all teleporting chars, so it's like a double nerf to zons. They're now mostly just useless aside from javas in pvm, which sucks because they are kind of the most fun class to use. They will also be even more useless if desynch is fixed. Now they got crappy graphics also. It prolly won't be as fun in the remaster. I dunno I may revert to the OG unless the remaster was made into an esport or something lol. IMO you can't go wrong giving zons a little boost for once. Probably on the bowside because bowside is next to useless for both pvp and pvm. Boosting zons on the bowside won't make pvm javas more op because pvm javas don't use bows, and pvm bowas aren't very widely used, so no harm actually giving them a boost.
Pvp zons are already completely countered under gm rules w/ stormshield/andy's/tgs. They are countered even harder in bm. The only way you can allow them to compete in team pvp is by setting a ton of restrictions on all teams so zons are immune from bp/decrep, etc etc etc. So you see zons require a whole lot of boosting just to even continue to be there.
Pvpers will just keep on balancing the stuff out, so overboosting 2nd rate pvp chars like zons was probably never much of a worry, and zons can basically never get out of hand at pvp, because they are actually crap chars.
There is a whole subclass of items in the game that nobody touches: crossbows. Nobody touches any of those: not the rares, the uniques, or the runewords. I played around with a Demon Machine for like 20 mins with sorc enchant, but there's nothing all that formidable about it. Crossbows were a relic from the pre-2004 period, when regular monsters were IIRC only a few hundred hps in hell mode with no physical resistance. It's completely irrelevant now, and nobody picks up crossbows in any form, and it is entirely a waste of a whole subclass of items. Since you pretty much have to boost zons in the remaster anyway, you may as well just boost xbows, because they would be a complete waste of space in people's games in the remaster. Zons probably look cooler with xbows anyway (I haven't seen the remastered version but can't look worse than the remastered bowazons. Or maybe it could get worse I don't know!).
Nobody uses crossbows because the speeds are too slow. Imo just make them usable by adjusting the ias bps so that crossbows are using the ias bps that regular bows are currently using (e.g. colossus crossbows attack as fast as hydra bows). Then maybe just adjust the base speeds to account for any imbalances. I gotta say though even with upped buriza and faith colossus crossbow at the same base speed as windforce/faith gmb, zons won't be that great at pvp. Bowazons will be easily countered in pvp, but people may now use mb/dr if bowazons get a boost of that extent, whereas they didn't even have to bother with any mb/dr for basically the last 15 years. The shared stash thing acts as yet another nerf to bowzons, because it was the maxed block setups that took up the most space in people's stashes. For team pks you would probably want to boost zons as well, and then maybe there would be less of those gm rules (the less the better). As for pvm it won't affect untwinked players at all. Even if you find a buriza when playing untwinked, you won't be more efficient than a sorc/java/hdin, and maybe only a few people out of thousands of untwinked players will find it. With pvm optimised setups it also won't matter how much you boost bowzons because they won't be as efficient on p8 as sorcs/javas/hdins (to note though optimised bowazon setups already 1-2 hit most stuff on p1 at 7fps, so it's probably not going to change THAT much if you made gorgon crossbows as fast as shadow bows). IMO set the ias bps for crossbows to the bp that regular bows are using, and then add 5-10 wsm to their base speeds, so colossus crossbow will be at 15-20 wsm and using the ias bps that regular bows are using etc, but even then bowazons won't be all that good, they would just suck a little less that's all.
In any case people were happy pre-2004 wiping out everything in a few screens in a single shot with burizons, and that is probably because people just love mass death and stuff, so if somehow they made bowzons op in pvm, it may actually keep more people playing the game, because sometimes people like the game more when the game gets easy.
TL;DR since zons are nerfed to shit and beyond, and crossbows are a COMPLETELY redundant subclass of items, you find your "balance" by trying to find some relevance for the crossbows and stuff. I wanna see zons wielding like a bazooka in the remaster lol. I also think they should redraw the zon, because it looks lame now.