Bow is absolutely broken in the remake

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at least for early to early-mid game, no idea about CH2+

I didnt have any problem whatsoever with the strong enemies in early game like black goblins.

I havnt played the original in a few years but i can remember bow being kinda useless and now its imo the strongest thing you can play.

I had problems fighting in the arena in old camp early in the original, but with the bow in the remake i could just kite and win against the first 2 fighters without losing once right after i entered the camp.

Have you found anything stronger yet?

[Nico]

Reminds moe of a Gamestar video I watched a while ago where they said that those of them who played a bow build were having a really bad time in some small boss arenas.

[[GG](MoJo)ReBoot]

what difficulty?

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Originally posted by GG(MoJo)ReBoot:

what difficulty?

hardest, but only for the fights. exp and trading is "gothic"

[sabrac]

Bow was always OP in Gothic 2 but I think in Gothic 1 the damage did not scale with Dex so that may be the difference? The game even on Hard is not really difficult. 10 LP into 1 handed weapons, 20 into Str and you can fight anything 1v1. at 50 Str so lvl 6 (with 2 rings) you can easily clear the whole map.
I think only magic may be more limited as it is gated by chapters

[Laza]

The early firearrow spell is NUTS.
To be fair I was saving quite alot of point that I could've invested because I wanted a nice savegame where I unlocked every path while beeing pretty much unskilled, so I made it harder for me than necessary. But investing those meager 5 LP for runemagic increased my fighting power by like 500%. Minecrawlers, wolves, hordes of scavengers, lurkers - all of them were nightmares turned to free XP once I got that spell...

....until I needed to go to the orc graveyard. The one bloodhound right after the bridge is basically immune to fire and killed me in two hits.

[Chris]

Bow was always broken in Gothic. But some monsters are hard.

[p0mpous]

Yeah. Its OP as hell.

[Irrelevant]

Bow is strong yes

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Originally posted by sabrac:

Bow was always OP in Gothic 2 but I think in Gothic 1 the damage did not scale with Dex so that may be the difference? The game even on Hard is not really difficult. 10 LP into 1 handed weapons, 20 into Str and you can fight anything 1v1. at 50 Str so lvl 6 (with 2 rings) you can easily clear the whole map.
I think only magic may be more limited as it is gated by chapters

Yea thats melee for you, i also played melee and another time mage in gothic 1 and 2. The difference in the remake is, that i don't lose anything except arrows when i fight. With melee there is a high chance to lose health and needing to eat/drink potions. obviously you get more than enough later on, but early bow is king

[DeBelem]

In Gothics and Risens from this game house, if you specialize your attribs for at least one killign method, it will feel overpowered.

It's always been the same and I feel like home in this game. Yeah black gobbos were nasty decades ago and they still are :D

[Zogtar]

If you're good at making money and know where to get arrows, I can see archery being OP.

I'll stick with pew pew fire.

[Sgt.JESUS]

Originally posted by sabrac:

Bow was always OP in Gothic 2 but I think in Gothic 1 the damage did not scale with Dex so that may be the difference? The game even on Hard is not really difficult. 10 LP into 1 handed weapons, 20 into Str and you can fight anything 1v1. at 50 Str so lvl 6 (with 2 rings) you can easily clear the whole map.
I think only magic may be more limited as it is gated by chapters

Well, you can find a lot of runes if you go farther, i just found fire rain, so my next playthrough is mage, i think it will be OP, and fun hehehe.

I dont know about bow though, i like it, i trained for it, got more DEX too, but clearing certain caves with it might be a pain in the as-s, not to mention skeletons, arent they resistant to pierce and slash damage?

Might involve a lot of perching and running from fights too, but its a fun gameplay, since it requires some skill to land those shots, animals are fast and the terrain makes than do some strange moves while coming at you.

[プラッシー]

if my mind serves me correctly it did scale with dex but had a crit chance, now we go for headshots which have 100% crit chance. Can somebody confirm this?