Is the archery a little.....lacklustre?

[Lion-O, Lord of the Thundercats]

Not sure if its just me, but I find the bows quite underwhelming compared to the sword....also it appears enemy archers do a lot more damage to you, then you do with the bow.......

For a game based on Robin Hood, I find it hard to understand why the archery is so.......weak.

[slapthatudder69]

It's an rpg, rpgs are about leveling up and becoming better. Build the archery range in robins camp and upgrade it to get new abilities and ability to craft new better bows, the more you progress the more you really start to feel like Robinhood

[Kikkatz]

I did the entire game with nothing but bows. Only used the sword for close up sneak attacks.
But once you level up the archery tree, get better arrows/bow. Slow time was amazing for double arrow headshots!! 2 tap most enemies. Then shooting their legs to make them stumble was just nice to get space. Just gotta give it a fair chance :)

[Lion-O, Lord of the Thundercats]

Originally posted by Kikkatz:

I did the entire game with nothing but bows. Only used the sword for close up sneak attacks.
But once you level up the archery tree, get better arrows/bow. Slow time was amazing for double arrow headshots!! 2 tap most enemies. Then shooting their legs to make them stumble was just nice to get space. Just gotta give it a fair chance :)

Ah ok, maybe I just need to spend more time on levelling. Thanks. It just didnt seem to be getting any better.....

[MJY]

i used a lot of explosive arrows right now and got a stack of iron arrows, not much stands in the way, might be to powerful, but getting more lv , etc , so might fit in as i`m just finishing first location

[Macdallan]

Originally posted by Lion-O, Lord of the Thundercats:

Originally posted by Kikkatz:

I did the entire game with nothing but bows. Only used the sword for close up sneak attacks.
But once you level up the archery tree, get better arrows/bow. Slow time was amazing for double arrow headshots!! 2 tap most enemies. Then shooting their legs to make them stumble was just nice to get space. Just gotta give it a fair chance :)

Ah ok, maybe I just need to spend more time on levelling. Thanks. It just didnt seem to be getting any better.....

Focus most of your skill points in bows if you want to be really effective as an archer. Unlock the second tier of bow recipes/skills from the shooting range as soon as you can (save 6+ points for skills and recipes so you can grab the essential ones ASAP) and immediately unlock the recurve bow, plus whatever other skills/recipes you want. I suggest the recurve because it does quite a bit more damage than the longbow but has a slightly shorter range. Always use copper or iron arrows as your main arrow type unless you're just hunting animals, and slot poison or another "special" arrow type as your secondary arrows and swap between them with X. Using a poison arrow on each enemy at the start of a fight means they'll be losing health until the effect wears off even when you aren't shooting them - unless they resist the poison.