Arrow Damage Type

[[ptx]]

Masterwork Long Bow
weight 1.75
requirement 6
spd rtng 50
shoot speed 66
thrust damage 33 cut
accuracy 98
Can't use on horseback
11,637 gold

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Long Bow
weight 1.75
requirement 6
spd rtng 48
shoot speed 63
thrust damage 30 cut
accuracy 96
Can't use on horseback
8,312 gold

[Formless]

Thank you

[StanleyPain]

Yeah that's what I thought, heirlooming bows is nice now.

[Jason]

The damage debuff helps when you get to shoot a friendly calvarly after he stomps you to half hp off the spawn point.  The largest unbalance in my game was the heavy calvary horses.  Was playing EU 4 or something like that cause NA was down and they wouldnt die.  i think this one guy was 40 and 1 just running around crushing people with plate horser... maybe he had a mace?

Shot that horse and him a good 15 times with myself and other archers.  He still gets a small flank killing atleast 3 people just running them over  and running off to safety. 

[StanleyPain]

Yeah I was there for that last night, pretty epic horsing around 

[Yaron]

ptx, your noob archer experience doesnt count ...

[Murthag]

Before the patch i had 180wpf with my strong bow, that was perfect, now i have only 124wpf with my strong bow, and thats pretty hard than before, but i managed to kill some people.
However i won 2 or 3lvl with playing only 1hour so i will fast recover my wpf

[ptx] , how many wpf? It must be hard with a longbow 

[YIT_Lanka]

All the time I've played crpg I've been pure infantry archer so I'm not complete newbie with it - for example I do know that pointing the sharp end to enemies usually works best.

However, I am complete newbie when it comes to whacking people with bec de corbin.


..so how in hell it makes any sense that killing people with bec de corbin with 1 polearms wpf is easier than killing same people with fine strong bow&large bag of khergits' and 160+ archery wpf..? Result of the patch - I carry bow along to get 2~3 shots in to people while they're busy figthing someone else before rushing in to whack them with a stick. Oh, and that stick deals 36 piercing damage, killing heavier infantry (not plated though) in 2~3 good whacks. Makes perfect sense.. yeah

Being at receiving end is sorta funny too. I've ran into hail of arrows losing only 2~3 hp per hit. Only crossbows deal any significant damage on my chainmails.

[Trout4711]

I just dont get it! Why archers had to be nerfed so badly? I dont remember archer never been ultimate killing machines like heavy cavalery or black armoured tincans. Honestly how many times you seen an archer top of the killing list.

Archers were always at the top of the "annoying people" list. That seemed to be enough 

[Mesmer]

My last game was funny. I was wearing Coat of Plates, and I received 1 shot from xbow into stomach. Of course I died... Next game I received 4 arrows and I was still running

[Helrekkr]

Which is funnily enough quite as it should be, not to mention most archers can easily get 3-4 arrows in you by the time a xbow reloads

[Trout4711]

Which is funnily enough quite as it should be, not to mention most archers can easily get 3-4 arrows in you by the time a xbow reloads

ahahahaha - pre-patch yes.

Now with the new animations not!

Time to roll an xbow-shooter?

[Helrekkr]

Try it, might be unpleasantly surprised by how people still don't die in 1 shot 90% of the time and you have to stand still to reload and if someone hits you with a rock at the end of your animation you have to start again

[OrientalHero]

One of the changes in the patch is a reduction in the shield "force field".

Archers should now be able to shoot around shields easier ie shoot the feet/head.

A friend of mine has a steel buckler and is now thinking of using something else as he gets more hits around it.

Of course, to reliably shoot the feet/head, they have to be that much closer....

So I'm against a change in damage type until the nuances of the patch changes are more widely known.

[bruce]

Time to roll an xbow-shooter?

Try it. Your shots are more powerful, sure, but you also shoot less often and have to reload (and be stationary while doing so) before every shot. If you think it's nearly as powerful as, eg. old archery - you're gravely mistaken. The old turboranged is gone, and good riddance.

I've got both a crossbowman and a (fairly low level atm, but it's doing ok) archer, both work ok but not like old easymode archery.