Tear Precision Arrow bugged?

[Rick]

Is the Tear Precision Arrow bugged? because fo me it does the normal damage on the parts and not the tear damage. so like 10.

[Kormac]

I think yes. In HZD it sends parts flying, in HFW I don't see any tear effect with them.

[AugustsEve]

I've noticed the same, doesn't really seem to do anything.

[Hemipheistos]

i have one that should do like 400 + teardamage normally. In most cases i don't know if it did anything.

[Evilsod]

Because Tear damage has never been displayed?
Tear arrows work in exactly the same way they did in HZD. If you accumulate enough tear on a component to remove it, it will fly off, if you don't, it doesn't.

Doesn't seem all that difficult to understand ><

[Hemipheistos]

I feel like it worked better in HZD, but thats maybe just because it takes so long to get good weapons in HFW. I am 60 hours in and i feel most of my weapons are crap. They are mostly fully upgraded Rare (blue) weapons.
I play on normal and also feel like the base hp for a lot of enemies is higher and the overly complicated damagetype distribution does not help either.

Sometimes i feel like i am playing Monster Hunter
or something and i do not really enjoy that.

I guess it will ease up when i get better weapons. IDK.

[Rick]

Originally posted by Evilsod:

Because Tear damage has never been displayed?
Tear arrows work in exactly the same way they did in HZD. If you accumulate enough tear on a component to remove it, it will fly off, if you don't, it doesn't.

Doesn't seem all that difficult to understand ><

Ok, fine. It isn't visible. Explain the math to me. I can remove a part with 6 shots of a bow that does around 160 Tear damage, but not with 6 shots of the sharpshoot bow with Tear Precision Arrow that does 260 tear damage.

[Evilsod]

You're missing the component, or your tear values aren't what you think they are. They may look like they have an AoE, but they don't.

I happily used Precision Tear Arrows on the Raintrace Hunting Ground (?) to strip the Shock Cannon off the tremortusk for the heavy weapons trial. At the time it took 2 arrows to remove it, or several more if I used my regular hunting bow.

I haven't bothered with the Tear arrows for ages though, not after getting a 5/5 Death-Seeker's Shadow and stacking 25/15/15/15/15% component tear mods on it. The ammo just isn't worth the crafting cost and 0 impact damage imo.

[Rick]

Maybe its the maschine. It was in the main mission with the big mammoth. Here it didnt work at all. I can see the components light up, so no, i didn't miss.

For me its kinda the opposite, but maybe i get my math wrong.
I tried it with some bear maschines. Maybe i dont understand what that % mean.
Bow 1 Tear Precision Arrow: 7dmg, 265 tear dmg
it needed 6 Shots.

Bow 2: 52dmg and 138 tear dmg + 25% tear dmg and 15% strech/overdo(? is that the english word?). When i calculate the tear dmg i get around 200.
it needed 3 shots