What's the point in crossbows?

[Kestral]

Stats wise they look really useless. Is there some hidden use I don't know of?

[Grimno]

Avelyn

[Ahriman]

they're edgy

[Xengre]

They seem to shoot much faster than normal bows in my experience, but I still never use them.

[Moe]

Originally posted by Kestral:

Stats wise they look really useless. Is there some hidden use I don't know of?

i find them useful for shooting corpses hanging in trees that have items on them.

[Will]

roll shot

[Yeshalot]

Originally posted by =AJSA= Grimno:

Avelyn

[lpnlizard27]

they can be used one handed with a sheild/weapon in the other.

[R-110]

I'm struggling with that myself... The knight one seems pretty good with the extra lightning damage x lightning bolts but that's the most luck I've had with it.

[Gyve]

they're amazing in pvp as offhand weapons. you can get a third hit on someone by shooting them at the end of your two hit combo, the knights crossbow does pretty good damage with lightning bolts too.

[Vahvi]

1. You can preload them and they stay loaded regardless of if you hold them or not. This means your could preload it in your offhand then switch to another offhand and it's will stay loaded when you switch back to it.

2. Avelyn (triple shot c-bow) reloads very rapidly (literally a wrist flick) and is great for pressuring your opponent and punishing chuggers.

3. Like every other ranged weapon they have various types of ammo you can use.

4. Don't even get me started on dual wielding avelyns, it's like a boss attack when they fire a volley of tiny projectiles at you.

5. I prefer the looks of DS2's Avelyn ...

[アゼム]

Originally posted by lpnlizard27:

they can be used one handed with a sheild/weapon in the other.

Originally posted by lpnlizard27:

they can be used one handed with a sheild/weapon in the other.

Originally posted by lpnlizard27:

they can be used one handed with a sheild/weapon in the other.

[Larzech]

Originally posted by Kestral:

Stats wise they look really useless. Is there some hidden use I don't know of?

Crossbows are pretty good for non-scaling builds. Dump stats to vigor, endurance and vitality. Increase your str and dex just to use them.

[Hunubul]

They don't scale, so you can use it with minimal stat investment. It's like throwing knife, but much higher damage, and takes up a weapon/offhand slot, and can aim with it, taking down corpses for example, or headshotting people.

I almost never used a crossbow in souls games, but they are perfectly fine, they aren't useless.

[David Banner]

crossbows are awesome

[Deku Scrub]

I use the Light Crossbow as an offhand weapon.
It's great for tripping up the opponent, or hitting a fleeing enemy.
Usually I mix it into a combo of light attacks.
Like a light, light, crossbow.
It's also useful for hitting an enemy that's just dodged a light attack.