Game Design Sharpshooter Phantom Ray Issues

I mostly play sharpshooter, and ever since the Fruma update, phantom ray seems a lot clunkier and inaccurate. The particles come out of the player's stomach and visually hit a block lower than the crosshair. It also drags behind the crosshair quite a bit when turning, and altogether makes using phantom ray more difficult and hard to adjust to. This impacts Sharpshooter quite a bit since accuracy is core to the class.

 

This might just be because of lag from the update just dropping