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it could be helpful in early game for hunters with low damage bows, if it works
For game, with a good bow, good arrows and good bow skill you can one-shot everything.
And, if it works, would show the coding was designed to handle this. Which would be cool imo
that's why i will use dollmaker. to make the animals limp instead of running away
Not telling you anything new, I'm sure...but for the sake of the other interested parties in this thread--there is such a thing as "Better Hunting" arrows. They're probably not gonna do much good against well armoured opponents (although historically even "Better Piercing" arrows didn't either) but once I get my bow skills up a bit, short of a complete miss I have never wounded an animal with them. Never had to track a wounded animal. Didn't even know that was a thing.
The point of all this is not to say how great an archer I am... at best I am adequate... but simply to say that if I can do it, anyone can.
I have never tried Dollmaker on arrows, but to each his own.
That said, for myself, I've always thought it was an answer to a question that never needed to be asked.
[shrug]
FWIW, IMO, YMMV...
It never occurred to me to hunt with the dollmaker potion. Just getting your archery skills to a decent level (above ten) seems so much simpler. I suppose it gives you an excuse to practice your alchemy, but there are lots of other useful potions you can make.
I find that rabbits are tricky to hunt even with a dozen or so archery skill levels under your belt. Full grown deer, boars, and even roe (more of a challenge because they're very jumpy and skittish) make much easier targets. Repeat visits to good hunting spots with large, slow game can quickly build up an industrial strength warchest that will make you wonder why people who need money waste time on bandits and burglary.
My current favorite weapon is a decent quality Cuman bow that I've been learning to shoot from horseback. Once you get good at hunting from horseback, going up against six or seven opponents in heavy plate armor is easy if you remember to fight like a steppe nomad. The game gives you a glimpse of mounted steppe warfare during the escape from Skalitz, in case you've forgotten what that looks like. Having said that, I only use my better hunting arrows on heavily armored opponents when I run out of piercing arrows because they work better on soft targets (think AP and HE in a modern tank).
I see your point, that potion can be used for the missing force, but after Pryb. you can have thousands of better hunting arrows and better long distance arrows and for me it's impossible to use up the better long distance arrows in the normal gameplay.
Last, when going for the realism route, your prices for the poisoned meat should not be great.
Also I'm using only arrows with the same power modifier, that the trajectory is the same.