Any good uses for the crossbow?

[lufia22]

I'm struggling to find a use for this thing. The best use I've found for it is to interrupt some enemy's AoE charge from a safe distance, but it's not reliable. Anyone gotten some use out of it?

[Leondre]

I forgot I had it until the last boss where I had to spam it to win.

[Mr. Self Destruct]

I use it to cause stagger or to knock down enemies, then I move in and attack with melee. It is best used against bosses though, to give yourself some breathing room when you need to heal or regen some mana.

[Demogorgon]

Oh heck yes, very handy tool, as well as the traps.
I carry 2 Crossbows - 1 with a high crit. rate mod, and the other more important one, with a high interrupt rate. It can either interrupt a spell cast for example or knock them on their butts.
If you're out of mana, may as well fire a couple off if the target is attempting to cast a spell.
Edit - you could alse be really cheesy and use the one with a high chance of poisoning, as well as some gear mod. that increases the length of poisoning.

[Langor]

The strategies are pretty much explained with the above two responses. Also, you can get very high damage crossbows later on in Act 3. So dont neglect them. Targeting with them can sometimes bug out also, so be sure to save often. (You quick target a different enemy and then it just shoots randomly off in the distance)