Long Bow change

[AnaBella]

Why did the long bow get moved to the anvil? It seems like a bug. It does not need anything that would cause it be there. Definitely not a QoL.

[MizzzManon]

This indeed seems weird, before you could very quickly craft yourself a better bow but now it's locked behind an anvil :(

[reanor]

Get a ren workshop bow and you will never need to craft one, unless you are in open world, yeah. Ren bow will last you for 5-10 missions at least.

[AnaBella]

That doesn't fix the issue I was pointing out. It's either a bug or they didn't change the recipe.

[william_es]

Originally posted by MizzzManon:

but now it's locked behind an anvil :(

That is exactly why. They want it locked behind the crafting station.

[OperationDx]

This is strange and not very logical. I wonder if the pace to push updates is not allowing for thoughtful development.

[Queltis]

Originally posted by AnaBella:

Why did the long bow get moved to the anvil? It seems like a bug. It does not need anything that would cause it be there. Definitely not a QoL.

All the other T2 tools are crafted at the anvil so this may have been done for the sake of parity.

[Killashandra]

Originally posted by Queltis:

Originally posted by AnaBella:

Why did the long bow get moved to the anvil? It seems like a bug. It does not need anything that would cause it be there. Definitely not a QoL.

All the other T2 tools are crafted at the anvil so this may have been done for the sake of parity.

Except that you don't need iron to craft the long bow, so the anvil doesn't make sense.

[Queltis]

Originally posted by Killashandra:

Originally posted by Queltis:

All the other T2 tools are crafted at the anvil so this may have been done for the sake of parity.

Except that you don't need iron to craft the long bow, so the anvil doesn't make sense.

You have to look at it from a programming/coding perspective. If they didn't move the long bow to the anvil it would have needlessly complicated their plans to add the multi-tier crafting benches that we've been asking for since launch.

[Satoris]

Yeah, I just noticed the longbow moved. Seems a little silly to need an anvil, considering longbows are made out of wood.
I get the programming/tech tree perspective and all, but the regular bow is on its own branch, so I don't know if that applies. The steel arrow would obviously be anvil-based, though. So it's a tough situation...
But I'm probably just complaining because I was used to building the longbow shortly after I got the crafting bench laid down but now I have to wait.
What if all the bows above T1 got stronger, to make the longbow more worth the wait? Or would that unbalance the ranged weapons?

[william_es]

Just think of the anvil as a "tier 2 crafting station". We got to make it easier before now, enjoy. But, It changed, so get over it.

It's very obvious it was moved there on purpose, along with a whole series of other changes in preparation for the extra recipes that will need to be added for the frontiers dlc.

[Queltis]

Originally posted by Satoris:

Yeah, I just noticed the longbow moved. Seems a little silly to need an anvil, considering longbows are made out of wood.
I get the programming/tech tree perspective and all, but the regular bow is on its own branch, so I don't know if that applies. The steel arrow would obviously be anvil-based, though. So it's a tough situation...
But I'm probably just complaining because I was used to building the longbow shortly after I got the crafting bench laid down but now I have to wait.
What if all the bows above T1 got stronger, to make the longbow more worth the wait? Or would that unbalance the ranged weapons?

It'd cause a lot of balancing issues. The bow is already ridiculously strong when paired with bone arrows as it is.