bow does no damage

[upuaut2]

i tried killing one fo the capibaras with it. kept shooting arrows at it, and nothing. had to use the spear.

[Nephelim]

This might sound silly, but did you have arrows in the bow? Just equipping the bow is not enough. It will let you draw the bow and release, and it LOOKS like it is firing, but it doesn't.
You have to drop some arrows from your inventory onto the item slot where the bow is equipped, and you will see an arrow icon over the top of the bow with a counter on it telling you how many you have left.
Weird, I know, but that is the way it works here.

[Judaspriester]

Originally posted by Nephelim:

This might sound silly, but did you have arrows in the bow? Just equipping the bow is not enough. It will let you draw the bow and release, and it LOOKS like it is firing, but it doesn't.

Yeah, I've also fallen into that trap early on. :D

[upuaut2]

oh lol . figured it out by accident

[kuyahseven]

Originally posted by Nephelim:

This might sound silly, but did you have arrows in the bow? Just equipping the bow is not enough. It will let you draw the bow and release, and it LOOKS like it is firing, but it doesn't.
You have to drop some arrows from your inventory onto the item slot where the bow is equipped, and you will see an arrow icon over the top of the bow with a counter on it telling you how many you have left.
Weird, I know, but that is the way it works here.

Yeah, that happened to me first time I tried to use the bow.

[Kapitänleutnant Kerensky]

Bow sucks no matter what - best damage has been a headshot of about 50 or so dmg which took a L4 mob down by 10-15% at most - totally worthless - you might get an instant kill on a turkey of low level but beyond that, not much else will die in 1 shot and if you shoot it heavily enough the stupid mob just runs off and insta heals itself - totally stupid

[Judaspriester]

Originally posted by Kapitänleutnant Kerensky:

Bow sucks no matter what - best damage has been a headshot of about 50 or so dmg which took a L4 mob down by 10-15% at most - totally worthless - you might get an instant kill on a turkey of low level but beyond that, not much else will die in 1 shot and if you shoot it heavily enough the stupid mob just runs off and insta heals itself - totally stupid

I've used the heavy bronze bow together with the long bone arrows. If I meet some lvl 10-15 enemies just with linen armor, I'm able to deal them 80-100% dmg with one shot. It depends much on the bow and your mastery level. For me the bow works fine for thinning out or at least weakening the enemies before going melee.

[Asheira]

Yes mastery level directly translates into more damage.
My "huntress" tribeswoman is doing some serious damage when flanking my melee targets. Archery level 45 or something now and going up.
Put her on medium distance, so she won't pull aggro too much.

[Kapitänleutnant Kerensky]

I finally got the Bronze Greatbow and have been able to one shot some guardians and kill crocs and cheetahs with that....its still dicey sometimes when you need to swap over to melee.....but at least I can finally hold my own at 25 against critters around 20s.......

[Lani]

TLDR bow does piss poor damage early on but can be made useable against lightly armored low level enemies using a bow several tiers higher and with multiple mastery levels.
Still sounds like a melee-centric approach that could use some balancing to make a bow more viable.