yeh, if you´re planning to play xbow seriously, only heavy xbow or arbalest are an alternative
also, take a look at the armor weight penalty
http://forum.melee.org/beginner's-help-and-guides/what-new-max-weight-for-wpf-penalty/I kept my armor weight (without the weapons) under 10 and was good to go with that, get a body armor around 36 and loom it if you can
also get wpf between 160 and 170, put the rest on 1h (or if you´re into it, 1 slot 2h, but I really recommend 1h as a xbower)
here is my final
Arbalest build I´ve been working on, I tried a build with 10 ath, but realized that 1 more athletics doesn´t really help you and you really miss some IF and PS, which you will need when somebody comes close to you. You will be able to run away from most enemies anyways since 9ath with light armor is already quite fast
I got myself 19 STR when I reached lvl 37 because I didn´t know what to do with the point. Stay with 18 STR and put the rest on AGI if you´re making yourself a build
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Heavy Crossbow, make something like this
With lvl 37, I only put one more point on STR and got some more PS and IF, but stay with 18 STR as long as you can
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loginpeople often say that IF is useless, but there are SO many situations ingame where you barely survive with 1 or 2 hitpoints and people will keep asking "How the hell are you not dead yet??". A pure crossbowbuild is nice, but if you also got some points on 1h, if and ps, you´re gonna have some good fun with people trying to sneak up on you