Bow training and trainers

[✚ Mariel ✚]

I'm trying to improve my bow skill by hunting but its increasing at a crawl. This guy aim wavers like someone's giving him a blowjob so it takes a while to kill stuff, and I'm not getting a lot of exp out of it

I did a google search and supposedly the hunters in rattay and talmberg teach it, but they only gave me hunter training. I also saw videos of people shooting livestock to gain exp, but shooting at cows and sheep gave me 2 exp per shot compared to the 10 or so I get for deer and rabbits. I think the livestock hunting might've been nerfed

Is there a more efficient way of training this, or any NPC archery trainers? Maybe some kind of equipment that makes aiming less like I'm standing up in a bus while trying to shoot? I've got vambraces but it's still a bit mental lol

[YOGI]

Yep, and thats the POINT of an RPG, is to get better by just Playing the part in the game right? This ain't a Game Arena finger button type of game here, yaa gotta "Learn" by playing the Game, and level up doing it too! (Trust me on this, I felt the same way, but the skill level does increase with more time doing stuff)

[Bardos]

I just kept shooting single bandits, it's easy task you just shoot arrows at them while going back. With litlle practice you can even handle 2 at same time.

[✚ Mariel ✚]

Originally posted by mattdilllon:

Yep, and thats the POINT of an MMORPG, is to get better by just Playing the part in the game right? This ain't a Game Arena finger button type of game here, yaa gotta "Learn" by playing the Game, and level up doing it too! (Trust me on this, I felt the same way, but the skill level does increase with more time doing stuff)

Fixed that for you lol

I don't think grinding so painfully slowly is necessarily the point of an RPG, balance is also important. Some people want to spend hundreds of hours shooting livestock to get halfway decent, while others want to be a master archer from the outset. I don't mind a grind, and I like to feel like I'm achieving progress, but this really is painfully slow, and it isn't exactly immersive to be shooting livestock for hours lol

It would bother me less if arrows were easier to get, but I can only buy about 60 hunting arrows and 60 better hunting arrows per week and time skipping is painfully slow. It's pretty hard to spot my arrows in tthe forest so I'm burning through them fast and having to consider spending all the money I'm making on higher tier arrows just so I can continue training, but the exp is trickling in at a rate that's slow by runescape standards.

[✚ Mariel ✚]

Originally posted by Bardos:

I just kept shooting single bandits, it's easy task you just shoot arrows at them while going back. With litlle practice you can even handle 2 at same time.

Might try this but it seems risky. Tried to outrun a guard earlier but he chased me down and tackled me, wouldn't want to risk pissing off bandits til I can fight properly or I might not escape. I'm not even sure where to find them yet. The animals I hunt stand still about 10 metres away and it still takes me up to 10 arrows to even hit them, I doubt bandits would hold still so long for me XD

[showler]

The huntsmen will train you in bow only after you take Bernard's initial training. You can only train once in every five levels though. Going to a different trainer doesn't help.

[showler]

You could also consider the mod that gives you brightly colored arrow fletching.

[bewest169]

easy to install mod that gives you a aiming dot Nexus mods,it takes a lot of shooting to get use to the bow its not like other games where you look down the arrow,like in real life Arch

[BiggusMickus]

Originally posted by showler:

Going to a different trainer doesn't help.

It used to. Another thing they nerfed because "evryting iz OP hurrdurr to eazy".

[✚ Mariel ✚]

Thanks for the info! It feels a bit odd, I've done archery IRL and I didn't shake like crazy and found it easy to hit targets at similiar distances to what I'm shooting in KCD. I think it might be an attempt to make it super hard to try and make it seem realistic, but instead they just made it unrealistically hard. I'm doing better with it now, I can use some better bows and I seem to be getting more exp shooting cows and stuff with high level arrows. I might eventually go on a woodland massacre and see if I can get some levels out of that as well, then do the Rattay training scene and kick Hans ass at archery :D

[djinnxy]

Backing away from single bandits works... So does shooting rabbits with the cheap arrows. Hunting red deer is good. Stags aren't a problem. The does tend to run. I chase them down on horseback and shoot. Hogs are easy if you buy the better arrows then chase them down on horseback. Roe is kind of a grind. They're small and fast and give less meat. Chase em down on horse back till they cluster in a spot running back and forth or just eating. Otherwise plan on wasting a ton of arrows.

Gather as much meat as you can in short order. Go to the nearest cooking fire and cook it all and sell it. You should have no problem buying more arrows, upgrading your horse and armor then heading back out for more.

Also groups of bandits can be dealt with on horse with the bow. Split them up if you can and take out the archer or the easiest one to get a shot at first. Aim for the face if you can or the weaker armor parts. After a couple shots they flee and you can shoot them running away to finish. Keep track of where the bodies are for some ok loot to sell.

On a side note taking the skill that increases strength for herbalism helps you get better weapons if you pick many herbs. Also savage and woodsman will help with both hunting and bandits.

[✚ Mariel ✚]

I had assumed horse archery was disabled for players considering how OP it is in mount and blade lol, thanks!