Blunted Arrows Broken

[AryanPendragon]

After patch blunted arrows out of a bow do not work. Heads up on this bug

[LeBurns]

Prior to the patch they were barely working, in that they usually did more physical damage than concussive damage. Not surprise they tried to fix it. Also not surprise they broke it.

[pApA^LeGBa]

Originally posted by LeBurns:

Prior to the patch they were barely working, in that they usually did more physical damage than concussive damage. Not surprise they tried to fix it. Also not surprise they broke it.

They still are broken. I can use mine, but they stiil do too much physical damage. Even with no agility and the crappy bow.

[LeBurns]

Originally posted by pApA^LeGBa:

Originally posted by LeBurns:

Prior to the patch they were barely working, in that they usually did more physical damage than concussive damage. Not surprise they tried to fix it. Also not surprise they broke it.

They still are broken. I can use mine, but they stiil do too much physical damage. Even with no agility and the crappy bow.

Yeah I would use the crappy bow, blunted arrows, blunt attachment on bow, wear Hyena armor, and eat a meal that increased concussive damage, and then, and only then could I bring down a T4 thrall ... about half the time. Without all of that there's no chance at all.

[ZY-CL4P-TP]

Blunted javalin works better.

[LeBurns]

Originally posted by LurkerBeetle:

Blunted javalin works better.

I have had better luck with that, but if you want to play an archer, and you have points in Authority so that your thralls goad the enemies to attack them, you'll want to stand back and use a bow while they take the heat.

[Xevyr]

Originally posted by pApA^LeGBa:

Originally posted by LeBurns:

Prior to the patch they were barely working, in that they usually did more physical damage than concussive damage. Not surprise they tried to fix it. Also not surprise they broke it.

They still are broken. I can use mine, but they stiil do too much physical damage. Even with no agility and the crappy bow.

Oh, I might be able to help you with that :)
I just posted a short article on that not long ago
https://forums.funcom.com/t/concussive-damage-explanation-in-3-0-or-knocking-out-thralls-umm-scientifically/209427

[(KRA)Gray Wolf 3rdX0]

You acualy need to use the Advanced blunt added to the bow to make it work better. I used it on my Star Metal bow it worked ok.

[Xevyr]

Originally posted by (KRA)Gray Wolf 3rdX0:

You acualy need to use the Advanced blunt added to the bow to make it work better. I used it on my Star Metal bow it worked ok.

Don't use it on a star metal bow though, use it on a hunting bow or the legendary one with 1 damage if you manage to get one :P The above link describes all of how that works including how to shoot the bow depending on whether you have an attachment on it or not

[AryanPendragon]

the bug was having the blunted arrows on your hot bar and shooting with hunting bow would make projectiles not show up, the animation was there not the arrows. Once i took off the blunted arrows off my hot bar the bow shot normal. Hope this helps anyone else.

[Xevyr]

Originally posted by Agonyecstacy:

the bug was having the blunted arrows on your hot bar and shooting with hunting bow would make projectiles not show up, the animation was there not the arrows. Once i took off the blunted arrows off my hot bar the bow shot normal. Hope this helps anyone else.

Oh yes, that is quite an old bug, a lot of arrows don't work when swapped off the hotbar. As a workaround when I needed to swap between arrows fast (gas cloud / healing / regular) I carried around an extra bow, something with a weight reduction fitting and just put that on my hotbar loaded with the proper arrow already so then I could just swap bows to use different arrows