I know of three warriors that use bows. They seem to do well with them and although its not the usual route its certainly do able. And like you, for them its mostly a second attack form. You are ,of course, going to want to train in ranged, then max perception if you haven't already, followed by training up ambush in all likely hood because it adds to ranged AS as well.

Thrown, without a returner or bandolier, isn't really a viable hunting style, imho. Met uses thrown as an invasion secondary when there's something really tough that needs to die. Warriors are pretty much always going to get better AS with thrown, due to the CMAN contribution to thrown's AS, which doesn't show up in archery's. However, archery has, hands-down, better defense.


- Metadi

Raelee carefully says, "A nightly contribution is not always required."
Raelee glances between Aydan and yourself.
Raelee says, "... from either of you."

Well how about that. I was thinking of using a bow and have been fortunate to acquire one. I am currently reading everything I can get my hands on about use of bows. One question though - can multi-strike be used with a bow?


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Mfire is generally reckoned to be pretty rubbish because it can't be aimed and has horrendous RT. Many people can shoot single aimed shots at a faster average speed than mfire unaimed shots.

Even worse, its a Cman, so you have to give up a useful Cman in order to learn it. If you are having a bow phase, you probably should learn multifire, but don't expect to be impressed by it.

What I want to know is, what happens when you berserk with a bow?

Get a bunch of haste imbeds and kill things in 1 Second RT by aiming at eyes.

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oooo getting all excited. Three months of training and i'll be using my bow like some warrior ranger hybrid - hehe. Almost there.

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Bows/crossbows/arrows used as melee weapons (right hand only).

General information:
http://www.krakiipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_the_Bow_(guide)#Bows.2FCrossbows_Used_As_Melee_Weapons_.28Right_Hand_Only.29

Bows (short/long/composite) use the quarterstaff damage table:
http://www.krakiipedia.org/wiki/Quarterstaff

Crossbows (light/heavy) use the cudgel damage table:
http://www.krakiipedia.org/wiki/Cudgel

Arrows/bolts use the arrow damage table:
http://www.krakiipedia.org/wiki/Arrow

Mark

I think the point of that was so you could use that information and bond with your bow of choice so you don't have those disarm woes.

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>Useful information but why swing a stick when you can swing something with a sharp edge or thrust something with a pointy end! - Bremerial

Because, Bremerial, there's nothing more satisfying than BOPPING, BOPPING, BOPPING the beelzebub out of a brown boar's belfry with a short bow! ;)

Mark

Hypothetically, a warrior could wbond a bow yes? The question that springs to mind is: do they need to get the kills to bond with it via melee, basically requiring them to train in THW in addition to range, or THW then fixskills to range; or can they get the kills via firing the bow? In any case, with either a lot of tedious killing with a crappy quarterstaff, or a lot of easy killing with a ridiculous ebow, I think you could make your ebow disarm resistant. Alternatively, isn't a warrior mastered in guild disarm with rank 5 uncanny defense pretty friggin hard to disarm?

Random thoughts. Played lots of ranged characters, never a warrior though.

Player of Kilshaar