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« on: May 25, 2011, 02:34:06 am »
Your all kind of idiots for getting so arguementitive over crossbows.
I'm a dedicated Xbowman that runs a 10/30 build with 10 athletics/10weapon master at level 30. I use the Crossbow with 2 stacks of steel bolts and a melee weapon for "blocking" though I fail misserably at it. Damage wise the crossbow pretty much does nothing to heavily armored people unless I shoot them in the face or at point blank range.
At that point If I were a hybrid 2hander build shotgunning someone would probably be no different then hitting them with my weapon unless they are an amazing blocker. The only time my "damage" really shines is against cav because of their general highspeeds self impaling themselves on bolts for far more damage then I'd normally do.
Now the people I personally run into that use the xbow/2hander hybrid rarely stack up against an actual archer and I also see them get owned atleast 2/3rds the time against other dedicated 2 hander builds. There are a couple of people who have the skill in both sniping and melee to make this seem rediculously overpowered build but those are like 1 in every 20-30 people you see I can really only name off Hospitaller_Frogger of people who strike me as making this build seem overpowered.
Now in regards if xbows are made into 2slotters it wouldn't really affect me much since I'd still have the same load out no matter what it would just change my weapon to a 0 slotter instead of a 1, but I don't think crossbows are strong enough to warrant any kind of change or 2 handers for that matter as 14 shots unless all shotgunned into peoples faces/chests with this weapon are minimal damage at full range unless the person it's hitting has a lot of momentum. So really this build only hurts low armored people like archers (who tend to run from melee guys anyways while drawing and firing till out of arrows) and jackass dedicated xbowmen like me.