Compound Bow's role?

[Kirby12352]

Are compound bow's better suited to PvP or taming?

[Shane]

PvP

[Kirby12352]

Originally posted by Shane:

PvP

I see. Are there any better options? They're a bit expensive for me at this point in time, because I'm in the process of converting my whole base to metal.

[Shane]

The main benefit is the metal arrows used with the bow, goes through flak armour well, taming all i use is longneck rifle with tranq darts.

[Wolfguarde]

Definitely PvP. The bow's tranq arrow damage is the same as a normal bow, on account of only metal arrows dealing full damage with it.

The metal cost is hefty, but as far as I'm aware they more or less deal the most damage of any non-explosive ranged weapon in the game. Bear in mind that obtaining metal gets a lot easier/faster once you obtain a quetzal and a decent level ankylosaurus.

[leefnmajors]

Originally posted by Wolfguarde:

Definitely PvP. The bow's tranq arrow damage is the same as a normal bow, on account of only metal arrows dealing full damage with it.

The metal cost is hefty, but as far as I'm aware they more or less deal the most damage of any non-explosive ranged weapon in the game. Bear in mind that obtaining metal gets a lot easier/faster once you obtain a quetzal and a decent level ankylosaurus.

No it doesn't. The Compound Bow does more damage with ALL arrows, including Stone and Tranq. Sure, the difference is MUCH more noticible with Metal Arrows, but it's always applied to every arrow. And more damage = more torpor. Test it yourself; a basic primitive, 100% Compound Bow will generate 81.4 torpor a shot on a creature with no armor (full drawback, let the dot tick) versus 60.3 a shot from a primitive, 100% basic Bow under the same conditions. Why people continue to perpetuate that myth is beyond me....

That being said, if you can get a higher level Longneck Rifle, Darts are better for taming.

[JayFiveAlive]

Compound bow is pretty worthless in its current state. It breaks way too easily and costs way too much to repair. I'd love for it to get a huge boost, even if that was just durability.

[leefnmajors]

Originally posted by Tsal Vlaxitov:

Originally posted by MiT leefnmajors:

No it doesn't. The Compound Bow does more damage with ALL arrows, including Stone and Tranq.

Before tranq darts were buffed my tribe used the compound bow exlusively for tranqing because it did less damage than the xbow.

Than a crossbow, yes. Than a regular bow, no. But a compound is probably better overall anyways for shot averaging; crossbows are more bursty.

[Wolfguarde]

Originally posted by MiT leefnmajors:

Originally posted by Wolfguarde:

Definitely PvP. The bow's tranq arrow damage is the same as a normal bow, on account of only metal arrows dealing full damage with it.

The metal cost is hefty, but as far as I'm aware they more or less deal the most damage of any non-explosive ranged weapon in the game. Bear in mind that obtaining metal gets a lot easier/faster once you obtain a quetzal and a decent level ankylosaurus.

No it doesn't. The Compound Bow does more damage with ALL arrows, including Stone and Tranq. Sure, the difference is MUCH more noticible with Metal Arrows, but it's always applied to every arrow. And more damage = more torpor. Test it yourself; a basic primitive, 100% Compound Bow will generate 81.4 torpor a shot on a creature with no armor (full drawback, let the dot tick) versus 60.3 a shot from a primitive, 100% basic Bow under the same conditions. Why people continue to perpetuate that myth is beyond me....

That being said, if you can get a higher level Longneck Rifle, Darts are better for taming.

Probably because if it is a myth, it's been posted as common knowledge on the wiki page that most of us are using as a reference point :P

As far as I'm aware, a normal bow (or is it crossbow?) will deal 100 torpor a shot with a stone arrow at base primitive quality.

[Sam Of Haywood]

one reason why i'd use a compound over ctrossbow or longneck for pve is due in part that i normally tame on foot and the draw back with the crossbow is that you slow down whilst reloading, where as with the bow and compound bow you don't. which IMO i understand for the longerneck but a cross bow?? imo it should be reversed i.e the bow and compound slow you down for reload

[Wolfguarde]

Crossbow also does significantly more damage, though. And as far as I'm aware, torpor doesn't stack on tranq arrow shots; the reload timer for the crossbow becomes valuable as a pacer to allow the torpor over time to finish ticking before your next shot.

Crossbows are also ridiculously slow to reload in real life compared to a normal bow, even with a crank. Though properly drawing and sighting on a real bow takes a fair chunk of time as well.