Bows need a buff

[Toreador]

Not a really big buff more of something to make them more useful against Demolishers, I had 38 explosive arrows but yet his armor didn't break and now I'm on 10 but 3 heavy melee hits will take off his armor, The ♥♥♥♥ is that

Techland please fix....

[Regi]

What kind of bows were you using ?
And have you reached legend levels ?

[Toreador]

Originally posted by ☭Registered Sexual Offender:

What kind of bows were you using ?
And have you reached legend levels ?

I've only started playing this again but I'm legend rank 7 and I was using the Ranger bow

[Regi]

Originally posted by Sir Cat Ina Hat:

Originally posted by ☭Registered Sexual Offender:

What kind of bows were you using ?
And have you reached legend levels ?

I've only started playing this again but I'm legend rank 7 and I was using the Ranger bow

Even with legend 7 ( preferably in bows ) it should take only about a few hits in the head with normal arrows to the head to kill a demolisher.

[Toreador]

Originally posted by ☭Registered Sexual Offender:

Originally posted by Sir Cat Ina Hat:

I've only started playing this again but I'm legend rank 7 and I was using the Ranger bow

Even with legend 7 ( preferably in bows ) it should take only about a few hits in the head with normal arrows to the head to kill a demolisher.

I'll give that a go, I just found out my skill points were spent on mostly health regen

[Balthazar]

Trust me, they don't need a buff and you are using the most powerful bow in the game. Your problem is that you are using explosive arrows which deal splash damage and instead of hitting one piece of his armour (prefferably his head) it spreads out damage all over his body. Once you bring the Bow skill above 10 in the Legend tree, you will mostly able to one shot them.

Besides.. they are demolishers, they are meant to be tanky.

Originally posted by Xzit:

I am playing on nightmare and even there I can one shot demolishet ti head. I don't think that bow needs a buff. Altho, one-handed weapons could be buffed in my opinion since they are the most useless thing in Nightmare mode.. Btw, just try to put your all legend skill points to bow skill tre, it will pay of!

I would rather see a buff for two-handed weapons.

[Blade Master]

Don't use elemental arrows.

Elemental arrows are most useless especially against special enemies and mostly it's waste at higher difficulties.

Use the basic arrow, this is the strongest and most effective.

Also no, bows itself don't need buff, the elemental arrows need it. Legend skill-tree heavily affects bows and crossbows, each skill-point into Bows skill in Legend skill-tree adds +40% damage to bow, effectively reaching +1,000% at 25/25 skill-points. Which one shots most of the enemies even at hardest possible difficulty that is Nightmare Game + 100% story.

Default bow is the worst one. If you need help with obtaining Bozak bow, add and contact me I'll help anyone finish Bozak Horde for bow or its achievements.

If you want to level up your Legend skill-tree, feel free to use the fastest leveling up guide on my profile.

[Bolt]

The sole problem with special ammo and player crafted items is that they don't scale in damage with the player level, while zombies do, making these things less useful over time. That's actually something that should've been adressed because I can't imagine they added things to become obsolete while they're unique in their design.

Edit: If they stick to a fixed value it'd probably the best to use a percentage value: item x always does the same percentage of enemy maxhealth to said enemy.

Usable damage dealing traps in the city should also do percentage based damage as they lose their value later on, currently.

[hazzamanazz]

Originally posted by BladeMaster:

Don't use elemental arrows.

Elemental arrows are most useless especially against special enemies and mostly it's waste at higher difficulties.

Use the basic arrow, this is the strongest and most effective.

Also no, bows itself don't need buff, the elemental arrows need it. Legend skill-tree heavily affects bows and crossbows, each skill-point into Bows skill in Legend skill-tree adds +40% damage to bow, effectively reaching +1,000% at 25/25 skill-points. Which one shots most of the enemies even at hardest possible difficulty that is Nightmare Game + 100% story.

Default bow is the worst one. If you need help with obtaining Bozak bow, add and contact me I'll help anyone finish Bozak Horde for bow or its achievements.

If you want to level up your Legend skill-tree, feel free to use the fastest leveling up guide on my profile.

Don't know, explosive arrows are great to send Volatiles and Night Hunters flying from the roofs in Old Town, I think they are great.

But the other types are kinda useless, electrical just stun the enemies and fire... well, put them on fire.
The fire type is great for completing bounties though, there's one where you have to kill enemies with fire and splash damage the fire to others around.

Just a question. There's a minimum range for the bow and crossbow attacks?
Sometimes I have to use tons of arrows or bolts to kill a enemy from distance, but if I come close to them just one or two hits kill them.
This happens more with the bow than the crossbow.

[Blade Master]

Originally posted by hazzamanazz:

Originally posted by BladeMaster:

Don't use elemental arrows.

Elemental arrows are most useless especially against special enemies and mostly it's waste at higher difficulties.

Use the basic arrow, this is the strongest and most effective.

Also no, bows itself don't need buff, the elemental arrows need it. Legend skill-tree heavily affects bows and crossbows, each skill-point into Bows skill in Legend skill-tree adds +40% damage to bow, effectively reaching +1,000% at 25/25 skill-points. Which one shots most of the enemies even at hardest possible difficulty that is Nightmare Game + 100% story.

Default bow is the worst one. If you need help with obtaining Bozak bow, add and contact me I'll help anyone finish Bozak Horde for bow or its achievements.

If you want to level up your Legend skill-tree, feel free to use the fastest leveling up guide on my profile.

Don't know, explosive arrows are great to send Volatiles and Night Hunters flying from the roofs in Old Town, I think they are great.

But the other types are kinda useless, electrical just stun the enemies and fire... well, put them on fire.
The fire type is great for completing bounties though, there's one where you have to kill enemies with fire and splash damage the fire to others around.

Just a question. There's a minimum range for the bow and crossbow attacks?
Sometimes I have to use tons of arrows or bolts to kill a enemy from distance, but if I come close to them just one or two hits kill them.
This happens more with the bow than the crossbow.

At higher difficulties especially on Nightmare Game + 100% story, explosive arrows only work against biters and virals, I no longer use it against volatiles, since last time I tried this, it didn't harm them. Against Night Hunter... only if it's beginner, rarely it works against experienced hunters.

Electric are best for stunning groups of enemies, but they quickly get up on Nightmare mode and take nearly no damage from it.

I don't know about the range, they never seemed to lower damage from range. But usually it's easier to hit clean headshot with bow, closer the range is.

[Balthazar]

That is because arrows arc and they drop. So you are probably hitting them in the chest instead of the head. The crossbow is pretty much pin-point so you don't have to worry about this if you aim well.

[Toreador]

Well I can't level my bows anymore till Legend 20 apparently, Regardless I don't see any difference I shot the Troll square in the head without his helmet and apparently he was fine after that