bow and arrow quality of life change

[Dedreth]

could it be made that while in your left hand and being one handed, you can still fire the bow? like maybe make it of course do less damage because of it BUT that way you could have a melee out and even do something like equip the melee with like bloodhound step or something to also give you better movement options at the cost of that dmg if you want

[Lord Bob]

How exactly is this supposed to work? It takes two hands to fire a bow. For one handed offhand/mainhand style shots try the Arbalest.

[Dedreth]

Originally posted by Lord Bob:

How exactly is this supposed to work? It takes two hands to fire a bow. For one handed offhand/mainhand style shots try the Arbalest.

in world wise you could just say you temporarily sheathe your weapon quickly as you fire hence why it would do less dmg cause 'the time you take to sheathe your weapon reduces the time to draw the arrow meaning it is drawn back less!' or something. honestly its not hard to justify when people can even weild the ruins greatsword in my opinion and just makes using bows more viable for normal non bow only builds and makes them more fluid with using them two handed would still be the by far better option BUT if you wanna swap to a bow to do a quick shot, you can.

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you want less damage from a bow? You want it to heal your target?

[cybercybercybercyber4]

If you have a crossbow in your left hand, you cannot use the aow of the weapon in your right hand. Youd instead fire a bolt.
Also crossbows in the left hand reload slower. I think this is a good thing, makes left hand crossbow a counter tool instead of a fully functional dps/zoning engine.

I like how small bows function. You can just softswap them when its melee time, the red one just weights 2,5 so its not a big deal.

[Vinnolo]

Originally posted by fenn1539:

Originally posted by Lord Bob:

How exactly is this supposed to work? It takes two hands to fire a bow. For one handed offhand/mainhand style shots try the Arbalest.

in world wise you could just say you temporarily sheathe your weapon quickly as you fire hence why it would do less dmg cause 'the time you take to sheathe your weapon reduces the time to draw the arrow meaning it is drawn back less!' or something. honestly its not hard to justify when people can even weild the ruins greatsword in my opinion and just makes using bows more viable for normal non bow only builds and makes them more fluid with using them two handed would still be the by far better option BUT if you wanna swap to a bow to do a quick shot, you can.

just use a crossbow, ranged weapons damage is already piss poor, even less damage will make it useless

[Lord Bob]

Originally posted by fenn1539:

Originally posted by Lord Bob:

How exactly is this supposed to work? It takes two hands to fire a bow. For one handed offhand/mainhand style shots try the Arbalest.

in world wise you could just say you temporarily sheathe your weapon quickly as you fire hence why it would do less dmg cause 'the time you take to sheathe your weapon reduces the time to draw the arrow meaning it is drawn back less!' or something.

I could see this as some sort of cool trick weapon to be honest. If doubt the dlc will introduce anything like this to be honest (despite the already announced eight new weapon categories), but you never know.

[Dedreth]

Originally posted by Vinnolo:

Originally posted by fenn1539:

in world wise you could just say you temporarily sheathe your weapon quickly as you fire hence why it would do less dmg cause 'the time you take to sheathe your weapon reduces the time to draw the arrow meaning it is drawn back less!' or something. honestly its not hard to justify when people can even weild the ruins greatsword in my opinion and just makes using bows more viable for normal non bow only builds and makes them more fluid with using them two handed would still be the by far better option BUT if you wanna swap to a bow to do a quick shot, you can.

just use a crossbow, ranged weapons damage is already piss poor, even less damage will make it useless

XD god you dont know how good bows are my friend XD beyond that i wanna use a bow instead because with this change it would still be faster to use than the crossy which is notably enough slower to cause issues with its reload for me.