Please remove bows in tournaments

[iSuicideBomber]

If you do not have skilled up the bow and you're taking part to tournaments and you have the "luck" to have a bow as your weapon you've already lost the tournament! It is simply impossible. Even if you're already that skilled with the bow and hit from the opposite side of the arena each time with a headshot you make max 8dmg... When the enemy comes close you have a dagger with you cant block with. So what you gonna do? Ok dagger is fast but just think if the enemy even if it's a bot got a 2hand or 1hand sword or whatever he can attack from a wider range than you can. And he need 1-2 hits for you... It's simply impossible with this class to kill somebody except you have skilled the bow up. Other weapons you can play easily with lowest skills quite good. Conclusion : Make the bow in tournaments stronger or remove it or at least exchange the dagger with an one hand sword without shield. Thanks for reading, hope you guys think 'bout it :)

[Včelí medvídek]

In native and some mods if you are skilled with bow than got it ensure deadliest weapon. (of course it sucks if you ignore bow skill and ahve it below 100)

With PD 8 I one-shot or 2shot anyone, especially unshielded target and horse riders.

if you move around your target and evade its hits with dagger it is actualy viable as well.

[psychotron666]

Command your team to stay with you. Then when they kill an enemy, or they die, pick up a weapon

[Gold♥Shield]

They also give you a dagger with the bow. The range is short but if you have one-handed raised, then it would be far more effective than a bow.

Also, you're exaggerating about how weak the bow is during tournaments. I just started a new character and barely hit level 10 and headshots in tournaments (just won one using bows) do 30-40 damage.

It's not impossible - just difficult if you didn't increase your weapon proficiencies.

[Vega]

Tournaments aren't fun if they're always rigged for you to win. But basically you're saying if you don't put the time and points into bow skills, you won't be able to do much. That's obvious.

But if you do, a bow is one of the most powerful weapons. Especially if you're good at it.

[Pirate Cat]

Shoot a guy in the face and take his weapon. Easy!
Against a bow? Wait till he is about to fire, start walking to the side. Bots aren't THAT smart.

[kaiyl_kariashi]

you also have a knife. Just use whatever works best till someone dies with better gear and take it.

If you plan to tournement alot in cities where bows commonly spawn, then it's probably a good idea to ensure that you have 100 in all proficiencies.

Power Draw isn't really required as the Tournement bow can't benefit from more than 4 points, and even at very low proficiency levels you can still snipe people will a little practice. At 100 which is pretty easy to get, your reticue should be very stable and easy to line up head-shots.

IMO Throwing weapons are actually the worst weapons to get as they don't hit for crap unless you've got a heavy Power Throw investment and even at 300+ proficiency their reticule has a huge spread. And are pretty sub-par when switched into melee mode.

IF you practice with them a lot, you can quickly murder a whole enemy group but it's not something you can solve with just throwing more points into it like getting better with Bows is.

the only hard part with bows is learning to lead your shots when moving at a full gallop while shooting at someone else moving on a full gallop.

[DarkFaceGlow]

Just prance around until someone dies and drops a better weapon :)

[Clovis Sangrail]

Originally posted by iSuicideBomber:

Make the bow in tournaments stronger or remove it . . . .

Let me see if I am understanding this correctly -- You want someone to modify this game simply because you suck with a bow.

[DarkFaceGlow]

Originally posted by Clovis Sangrail:

Originally posted by iSuicideBomber:

Make the bow in tournaments stronger or remove it . . . .

Let me see if I am understanding this correctly -- You want someone to modify this game simply because you suck with a bow.

I actually prefer a bow in the arena. As long as I dont have a lance im fine. I hate lances and poles.

[JiffyPopKids]

Love how half the people in here are saying "You have a knife" when the OP obviously stated he knew he had one... I love when people read half of it and skip to the end ready to type.