Can you poison bows/crossbows/missles?

[sebring25]

i can drag poison vials to poison other weapons, but how do i poison a bow or crossbow? or, if i want to poison a batch of missles, how do i do that? In the Inventory window, it doesnt take when i drag a poison vial over my equipped cbow/crossbow, like it does for other equipped weapons. Thanks for you answer

[Ichthyic]

you can only poison the thing that actually does the damage. since it's not the bow that does the damage, but the arrow... you have to poison/sharpen arrows for that effect.

sadly, you can only poison one ammo at a time, and it takes an entire poison flast to do it, so use wisely.

throwing weapons are the same. you can only poison/sharpen one at a time.

[sebring25]

thanks for the info. wow, it's bad enough to have to poison missles 1 by 1. but to then need an entire flask to poison just 1 missle sounds like bug then. at least you should be able to do 20 missles. and even that isnt as good as applying poison to a melee weapon because with them you get 20 HITS not 20 SWINGS from a poison flask. With missles you never get 20 hits without a miss.

[Ichthyic]

thus has it always been in this particular universe. I understand the logic of it, even if it is painful for ranged types.

[artofwar]

They just changed that in the update. Previously you could poison the bow/crossbow itself, which would last for 20 shots with any ammo; that's still how it currently works in AoD.

Edit: Or maybe they changed it in update #1? Cause I don't see it in the notes for update #2.

[sebring25]

wow, thanks for your answer. it doesnt seem like a good thing to do then. its bad enough to have to poison missles 1 by 1, but then to only get 1 missle per flask just isnt worth it at all. at least you should get 20 missles. and thats not even as good as poisoning melee weapons. for melee weapons you get 20 HITs per flask, not 20 SWINGS. To make poisoning ranged weapons as good as melee weapons, they should count 20 missle hits and not include misses.

[Elhoim]

I'm pretty sure it poisons 20 missiles.

[Ichthyic]

if so, that's new. yesterday it most certainly was only doing one missile at a time.
will try it out.

[Ichthyic]

yup seems to be working.