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cRPG => Beginner's Help and Guides => Topic started by: Thucydides on February 02, 2011, 11:10:36 pm

Title: Hybrid Polearm: Crossbow or Throwing?
Post by: Thucydides on February 02, 2011, 11:10:36 pm

Which should i hybrid as, throwing or crossbow?

also,  any build info for either would be nice :)

Title: Re: Hybrid Polearm: Crossbow or Throwing?
Post by: NuberT on February 02, 2011, 11:11:54 pm

none, ranged is for noobs  :twisted:

Title: Re: Hybrid Polearm: Crossbow or Throwing?
Post by: Thucydides on February 02, 2011, 11:14:08 pm

but but i'm a noob and i am a pure polearm :(

Title: Re: Hybrid Polearm: Crossbow or Throwing?
Post by: NuberT on February 03, 2011, 12:10:50 am

then practise your melee skills..

Title: Re: Hybrid Polearm: Crossbow or Throwing?
Post by: Stormcrow on February 03, 2011, 12:29:34 am

go throwing its easiest and the most fun.

then change once its nerfed

Title: Re: Hybrid Polearm: Crossbow or Throwing?
Post by: Gorath on February 15, 2011, 03:03:43 am

I go x-bow for all my hybrids.  Everyone going thrower ruined it for me.  And besides, this way I can save skill-points.

Title: Re: Hybrid Polearm: Crossbow or Throwing?
Post by: Blackstone on February 15, 2011, 05:02:05 am

I concur with Gorath.

Title: Re: Hybrid Polearm: Crossbow or Throwing?
Post by: ShinySpoons on February 15, 2011, 06:31:11 am

Throwing if you have extra skillpoints sitting around and you don't want to convert, xbow if you want to drop a point or two into wpf and you're main wpf is past 120ish.

Title: Re: Hybrid Polearm: Crossbow or Throwing?
Post by: bruce on February 15, 2011, 04:46:31 pm

Throwing is more effective at the moment. The crossbow, if you want to use it effectively, requires you to play like a crossbowman basically, which means being a little off from melee, sniping archers, heroes, horses and other scumbags. While throwing is for getting kills in near-melee range, and it is much more effective due to the rate of fire and crossbow+ damage.

Go for a crossbow if you want to play more like a crossbowman. The upside of crossbows it that they don't require 6 or so skillpoints to use. (on the other hand, it's more worth it to get wpf for crossbows really, with throwing it matters less)

Title: Re: Hybrid Polearm: Crossbow or Throwing?
Post by: v/onMega on February 15, 2011, 05:04:23 pm

Funny thing: They both dont really require Wpf points (played both hybrids now with 2H sword)

Xbow with 110 wpf isnt satisfying due to bad dmg or bad reloading speed. If u have somewhat of a clue how to play it, siege xbow will do its job even with 0Wpf.

Throwing doesnt need Wpf either but is way more effective due to non existing reloadspeed.

Just talking about both as a sidearm.

And just like Nubert said...ranged is for noobs...

Title: Re: Hybrid Polearm: Crossbow or Throwing?
Post by: Torp on February 15, 2011, 05:20:34 pm

wel, i've been thiking about making a bec de corbin character, and i was thiknig something like this:

Level 30 (4 420 577 xp)

Strength: 21
Agility: 18
Hit points: 58
Converted: 8
Ironflesh: 1
Power Strike: 7
Shield: 0
Athletics: 6
Riding: 3
Horse Archery: 0
Power Draw: 0
Power Throw: 0
Weapon Master: 6
One Handed: 1
Two Handed: 1
Polearm: 151
Archery: 1
Crossbow: 52
Throwing: 1


that allows me to be great on the ground, but i had 4 extra skill points that would normally go to IF, but i don't think 6 hp does that much, so i'd ratehr have 3 riding. That will allow me to backstab archer or just go from one end of the map to another very fast.
The 52 crossbow is mostly for when melee doesnt work out too well, and it only costs 5 polearm wpf to get 52 x-bow.