Why the fuck would a crossbow require power draw?
Why the fuck not?
Why the fuck would a crossbow require power draw?
Switch the requirement for the shield skill to STR instead of AGI
and you will get a bunch of strwhore shielders with unbreakable shields, great idea..
and you will get a bunch of strwhore shielders with unbreakable shields, great idea..
beats having all those scimmitar/pick high ath spammers
Because XBows are the only thing in the game with 0 requirements. You don't even need to dedicate all your WPF into them. While other builds might need to sacrifice something for their ranged ability for the sake of balance, xbowers lose next to nothing
Last time we defended Sargoth (in strat) me and arn were standing on a tower and shot down, without any xbow wpf we were able to hit enemies up to 50-60 meters away from us and we were able to compete with enemy archers :3 This is kinda completely ridiculous cuz when you give a normal person a xbow he'd may be able to shoot like 10-15 meters.
Now regarding the shields, don`t you find it redicoulus that a guy with 3 STR can carry a huscarl shield? And apart from that, high agility shielders receive 2 bonuses.
1. High speed bonus damage, due to the high agility/athletics
2. Durable shields
On the other hand, high damage is justified, because the player invested on a Strength build, so yeah, I prefer strong shielder because of their build, rather than left swing spammers.
Because XBows are the only thing in the game with 0 requirements. You don't even need to dedicate all your WPF into them. While other builds might need to sacrifice something for their ranged ability for the sake of balance, xbowers lose next to nothing
You can shoot three arrows for every crossbow bolt. I think that is penalty enough.
Depends of the bow, the crossbow, and the builds used for each. If you use a regular crossbow with high wpf, you'll spam bolts.
Depends of the bow, the crossbow, and the builds used for each. If you use a regular crossbow with high wpf, you'll spam bolts.
You don't need to reload a bow or throwing weapon after each shot. Holy shit dude.
so if we´re really realistic, arbalest needs 0 strength then? :mrgreen:(click to show/hide)
does xbow then get damage bonus or what? Because damage bonus would make no sense.
and if xbow additionally needs power draw without getting any bonuses, people will just switch to thrower or archer
because then, the amount of points you would have to shove into this class would be upright RUBBISH
of course it would be realistic, but the amount of points wouldn´t be worth the efficiency. All other classes would be easier to play then.
A lot of things aren´t realistic in mount and blade, but some things would destroy the balance. No lousy arrow would ever penetrate a plate armor, etc...
and I´m not saying all of this because I´m an xbow myself :mrgreen:
crossbows were used by the french because everybody was able to use it and it needed less training than archery. I think medieval men were in general stronger than people today, so a simple STR restriction is fine
If the power draw skill gets added for xbowing aswell, the more Power Draw you have, the faster you will reload you xbow.
base damage reduced while current damage would be there for people who put in about 5-6 points like archers/throwers dointeresting idea, but I don´t wanna be the guy who has to balance that one out