I'm slower than all but the pure strength maulers due to the fact that my arb weighs more than a tree
that´s why I got myself 9 athl and a pretty light armor, the only ones who catch up to me and my arbalest are speed builds, in the worst case throwers with high athl (
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I only drop my arb when I have to duel somebody or I have to fight a group of people. That not only makes you faster, against groups there´s also always that one dude who then grabs your arb and reloads it, which is -1 guy to take care of for a long time in the fight. You just have to make sure to hit him once before he´s done reloading. And if he tries to run away to reload, it´s easy enough to catch up to him