Killing with blunt arrows?

[LeBurns]

I was doing pretty good at getting thralls with blunt arrows, however as I got more powerful I've gotten to the point where my blunt arrows are killing the thralls before they are knocked out. Is there any way to reduce the health damage blunt arrows do? They've basically become useless to me now.

Thanks.

[Dread Swoop]

As far as reducing health damage, probably not, other than using a weaker bow.

I would recommend picking up the first Strength perk if you haven't already, as that will double the concussive power of all blunted weapons, including those arrows.

[DarkFire]

This also happens with melee weapons such as the Love Tap when you boost your strength. Eventually even weapons that do 1 HP damage get stat-boosted so much that they become dangerous.

You'll probably have to resort to using the truncheon.

[LeBurns]

I'm wondering if that third perk under Accuracy is bugged as that's when I noticed it happening. You'd think adding 10% wouldn't be much, but maybe the formula isn't factoring in that blunt weapons are being used and full damage starts being done.

[emitfudd]

I read up on this a bit myself recently and the consensus is to use the weakest bow, so the hunting bow.

[BigBombz]

Hunting bow with a blunt weapon fitting on it. That's all I ever use, never have I killed any thralls, though I never tame anything else but named ones.

[fmalfeas]

To just make up numbers (I'm pretty sure these are NOT the real numbers)...

Take your blunt arrow - it does 1 damage, 20 blunt/knockout damage.
Now take your bow - The good one adds 25 damage to arrows. That makes the blunt arrow do 26 damage and 20 blunt, turning it decidedly lethal. The cheap old hunting bow adds 5 damage, making the blunt arrow do 6 damage and 20 blunt, and it will knock out before killing.

[russmiller4445]

Blunt damage recovers very slowly compared to HP. So shoot & stop before you kill them T
hen let them return to their spawn site, give them a min. then continue shooting. They recover their HP quickly.