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If you can get a purple War Bow early on though, corrupting one machine in a crowd is basically a delayed one-shot kill when the rest of the crowd gangs up on it and they give you a fairly safe and easy way to farm purple mods early by turning large machines against each other. You can go to one of the northwest Behemoth grounds, for example, have the two Behemoths and Longlegs there fight it out (in my case, it usually took about 3 conversions/6 arrows per fight), and then just collect the rewards - and a good chunk of experience if you're able to get any last hits.
In short, you can easily do without them but they have their uses and give you a fairly safe, if time-consuming way to defeat larger machines and crowds that you might struggle with otherwise.
Still, when you're that far that you can tame everything, then you should be able to sneak around and reach them from behind or force them down by the rope caster. Still, it's way better than the other war bow ammo types. Overall the war bow gets outshined way too easily. It's a bit sad.
btw.:
If you've skilled the "call for a mount"-skill you can use your mount as decoy for such a purpose, too. There's no limit, so it doesn't matter whether your mountable pet dies.
True, but for the mount you don't need to equip the war bow and those arrows need metalburn as crafting ingredient. Sold to a trader Metalburn is already worth 15 metal shards per piece. And it's quite tough to farm. Using Corruption Arrows once in a while is no problem, but frequently would be troublesome.
However, I never really needed it. With the Rope Caster I can forcibly tame a machine. I rarely equip the war bow, cause it's one of the lesser useful weapons. Corruption may be the only exception.
Most of the time incinerating an enemy gives me enough time upon tangling them. And Fire Arrows come in 12x Packs and are pretty cheap. You can even farm those base ingredients on the first hunting ground by doing the explosive trap exam. And while you're farming blazing sun chests, you get some blaze, wire and co. Just thinking.
Early on when you don't have all of that, they're another tool that lets you safely approach encounters that you might have trouble with otherwise (especially on Ultra Hard where one stray hit could get you killed at low levels) - and if you've cleared a few corrupted zones and have 100+ Metalburn to spare on early-farming a few Behemoths or something, then why not?
It's just one more option that a player can choose to work with. Like quite a few of the other weapons/ammo types on offer in this game, you can easily do without it if you prefer another approach.
I never had that amounts of metalburn you're talking about.
Also, what's the point if you can't control robots? That distraction only makes sense when you need the time to hack a robo beast like a Sabertooth or such. Not Watchers. Watchers aren't even strong enough/durable for being mentioned on the longer term.
Also, like you mentioned, you need the Shadow War Bow for that purpose, cause the others don't support Corrupting Arrows. The first time you can get a Shadow War Bow is in Cut-Cliffs. Reaching Cut-Cliffs is like reaching Meridian is like being almost half way through the entire game.
In my experience, corruption arrows didn’t compete for any of the resources in my regular load out. And I almost always had a huge blaze surplus.
As far as the other elements, they all work better than their blast equivalent. With mods, 1 arrow will inflict its status effect on anything small and up to 3 arrows (as in still one shot) will inflict on almost anything else.
IDK, it sounds like you already had an answer to your supposed question. I’ve found them to be a useful tactic in a number of situations. Your alternatives aren’t that equivalent and it’s short sighted to discount the war bow for the times and places it shines.
*shrug* Not sure what to tell you there but in my last two playthroughs, (the last one, a fresh NG Ultra Hard run), I had at least 'close' to 100 of them after clearing the corrupted areas and looting chests in the Nora lands and never had to go out of my way to farm any. If you actually want to use Corruption, you can always just buy an ammo refill (rather than the resources) directly too.
Why do you need to directly control, say, the Behemoth in my example that aggro's and destroys everything around it without your input? I wouldn't shoot them at a Watcher (or at something else to make time to hack a Watcher). They'd get wrecked by anything else that's available and you shouldn't have any trouble taking them down yourself at any point in the game.
I guess I'm not clear on how you're trying to use them. In a group setting, they can take one of the more threatening targets out of the fight for a bit and potentially deal some damage (or get itself killed, eliminating that threat). That's it. It's a good way to take some heat off of you before launching your offense or to have several large machines that you would have trouble with alone take each other down. And if you're already in the late-game as far as levels and equipment and have better ways to do that, then fair enough. Put Corruption on the shelf.
To be clear, I'm talking about about 'possible' uses and both the Shadow and Banuk War bows are available to grab as soon as you leave the Nora lands. Is a brand new player going to know that? Probably not but anyone doing a second run would and Corruption can be a useful option if you grab it early.
Overall, I don't disagree that Corruption is something you could safely bypass if you don't want to use it but honestly, once easily-sustainable Ice and Hardpoint ammo (and fire against some targets) are available, pretty much everything else ends up being situational and easy to ignore and you're basically just using what you enjoy working with.
I meant, if I just want to kill something then I normally don't need a 15 secs distraction, always considering that the corrupted beast doesn't see me. If it sees me then it might attack me, too. Cause corruption isn't the same thing as taming/controlling.
Generally for me the Shadow War Bow came too late. I was already lvl 30-40 when I reached cut-cliffs. If they want me to use this then they have to implement it sooner, cause I'm not following the story thaaaat much. Not in an Open World-Game. And especially not when I have to simply-spoken have to change the continent to accomplish this. But well, ok whatever...>>