Archer class is so annoying

[Severexx]

Been playing with a bro who plays mage and I use a bow, crafting arrows is killing the game for me. He is always set to go do stuff but I have to go farm little trees for an hour to make arrows. It's just a joke to us anymore and it makes it even worse that I do no damage compared to him at our current lvl of 20. Also after 50 hrs I've only found one legendary bow that sucked and my buddy finds something viable in every other chest, half my gear is handouts from him. I like the game but I'm kinda done with it. Less twigs for arrows or use wood to make twigs, making arrows is cancer right now.

[CaptMuffinman]

Yeah they are aware of the horrible balance with the classes. What they plan on doing to fix it is unknown to me. However they plan on fixing the arrow thing regardless. Something that I feel they could add is the magic arrow at the end of the ranger tree. No more need for ammo, just empower the bow to shoot magic arrows. One would have to earn it and they can make it do x damage based on each point in dexterity. Allowing it be a growing power with the build.

[Sugam]

loot is almost all RNG. I found a level 7 legendary bow like 20 minutes into a new game. Wood is stupidly easy to collect as well. But really, you should have a backup melee weapon too. Forcing yourself into one type is just asking for struggles. But arrow management might be an issue for you too, I cant say.

[Smokey]

The arrows are also bugging me. Ive started to make sure im just always always grabbing twigs on my runs. 50hrs and one bow? I dont even have half that and ive found like 3 legendary bows, and multiple blue/purple. You must be walking past a ton of hidden chests

[Driverben]

I feel like the multi shot ability shouldn't consume additional arrows, because most of the time the additional arrows fly wide of the target anyway, or at the very least let us be able to choose when to use it. I've left my base with over 200 arrows and next thing I know I'm down to 20 because of the multi shot proc. Being able to retrieve arrows would also make it a lot easier to deal with ammo. Those 2 changes alone would help a lot.

Edit: I've been coming across more bows than anything, most of the are rare quality and same level or lower as what I already have. So it's very rare I actually find an upgrade.

[Zeel Ara]

Could be fixed pretty easily by adding anything between one and two zeros to the end of both max arrow stack size and arrows made per craft.

As for bow drops, that's just RNG. My mate and I are playing melee tank and caster, and we have been dropping so much archer gear that it makes us both consider respeccing just to be able to make proper use of the by far best weapons we have found.

[scohp]

I'm getting way too many bow drops myself. They really need to tame the RNG of drops with something like rolling twice, and picking the weapon that has related skills unlocked.

[Odium]

They could just make basic arrows unlimited and have the player craft specialized arrows they can switch through like how the mage switches through spells

[CaptMuffinman]

Originally posted by scohp:

I'm getting way too many bow drops myself. They really need to tame the RNG of drops with something like rolling twice, and picking the weapon that has related skills unlocked.

I can say all the gear I have, I did not find. Someone else found it and I have given away gear to others. But bows have been 60% of the chest items. It's beyond annoying at this point.

[Severexx]

Originally posted by Smokey:

The arrows are also bugging me. Ive started to make sure im just always always grabbing twigs on my runs. 50hrs and one bow? I dont even have half that and ive found like 3 legendary bows, and multiple blue/purple. You must be walking past a ton of hidden chests

The thing that annoys me is that I'm the one that covers every area looking at everything but my brother finds all the good stuff, maybe I'm super unlucky

[Severexx]

Originally posted by CaptMuffinman:

Yeah they are aware of the horrible balance with the classes. What they plan on doing to fix it is unknown to me. However they plan on fixing the arrow thing regardless. Something that I feel they could add is the magic arrow at the end of the ranger tree. No more need for ammo, just empower the bow to shoot magic arrows. One would have to earn it and they can make it do x damage based on each point in dexterity. Allowing it be a growing power with the build.

A backup unlimited arrow source is a great idea, hope the devs are reading

[Severexx]

Originally posted by Driverben:

I feel like the multi shot ability shouldn't consume additional arrows, because most of the time the additional arrows fly wide of the target anyway, or at the very least let us be able to choose when to use it. I've left my base with over 200 arrows and next thing I know I'm down to 20 because of the multi shot proc. Being able to retrieve arrows would also make it a lot easier to deal with ammo. Those 2 changes alone would help a lot.

Edit: I've been coming across more bows than anything, most of the are rare quality and same level or lower as what I already have. So it's very rare I actually find an upgrade.

If we could craft a crap ton of arrows the multishot wound't be so annoying imo but yeah it eats so many, but it's a damage dealer

[Severexx]

Originally posted by Sugam:

loot is almost all RNG. I found a level 7 legendary bow like 20 minutes into a new game. Wood is stupidly easy to collect as well. But really, you should have a backup melee weapon too. Forcing yourself into one type is just asking for struggles. But arrow management might be an issue for you too, I cant say.

Melee is a must and I have a nice sword, but my skill tree is built towards a bow. The arrows need twigs and not wood which is weird and why I say it's annoying.

[Tendeep]

Originally posted by Severexx:

Originally posted by Sugam:

loot is almost all RNG. I found a level 7 legendary bow like 20 minutes into a new game. Wood is stupidly easy to collect as well. But really, you should have a backup melee weapon too. Forcing yourself into one type is just asking for struggles. But arrow management might be an issue for you too, I cant say.

Melee is a must and I have a nice sword, but my skill tree is built towards a bow. The arrows need twigs and not wood which is weird and why I say it's annoying.

Simple fix is to hotfix add a craft that takes wood and turns them into twigs in mass, no?

[Severexx]

Originally posted by Tendeep:

Originally posted by Severexx:

Melee is a must and I have a nice sword, but my skill tree is built towards a bow. The arrows need twigs and not wood which is weird and why I say it's annoying.

Simple fix is to hotfix add a craft that takes wood and turns them into twigs in mass, no?

That is what I think, and other survival games do that as well so hopefully the devs see these complaints and make these updates sometime soon

[HKesadilla]

if you find a wolf cave, twigs can be mined there.