Ranged Questions: Buy Arrows / Curved Bow

[EigenSpaces]

Hi guys! Some questions here....
Do the +25% Bodypart damage & +1 damage (Curved Bow 25 dmg) really worth rather than Nomad Bow (24dmg)?

And, i am lacking normal and botking arrows... just 1 stack per day on brynn is little bit. Is there another seller than the "contract giver" ??

[funkmonster7]

Originally posted by EigenSpaces:

Hi guys! Some questions here....
Do the +25% Bodypart damage & +1 damage (Curved Bow 25 dmg) really worth rather than Nomad Bow (24dmg)?

Yes.

Curved Bow is a bow that lasts till endgame (although for a unique purpose). +25% bodypart damage means a lot. You can break your opponents' body parts which debuffs them, by the time they reach you in melee you can dispatch them without melee abilities.

Originally posted by EigenSpaces:

And, i am lacking normal and botking arrows... just 1 stack per day on brynn is little bit. Is there another seller than the "contract giver" ??

In Brynn, you have not many ways to buy arrows unfortunately. I can't remember if the wood guild leader in Brynn sells it (at night) but I usually just take a short trip to Mannshire, buy all the arrows from him, and then return to Brynn again.

What I also do is wear a backpack, which I get one for free when I go to the hermit's hut. In the backpack I usually put an additional stack of leaf-shaped arrows. As for my quiver, I use the Eastern Quiver purchased from the elf shopkeeper in Brynn, I think I only need benevolence rep in Brynn to buy it although I'm not sure. Later on once money isn't really a concern, I fill the backpack with another Eastern Quiver full of arrows. After all, a Gulon pelt sells more than most things. If you can harvest a Young Troll pelt that is even better.

Don't sleep on broadhead arrows, they're great. I use them for hunting, and also if I want to break my enemies' body parts. Breaking a body part gives them a chance to bleed, if I got them bleeding I can run away and let them bleed to death.

Lastly - and I probably should've said this first but whatever - lower your fumble chance as much as possible. Fumbling = breaking the arrow you shoot out. Early game I prioritize wearing either Bronze Amethyst Rings (for +5% energy resto and +5% XP) or the -4% fumble rings.

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As an additional note: I also recommend Pearl Necklace (+5% energy resto, -10% cooldown). If you wear Falconeer Gloves, you can get another -10% skills energy cost and -5% cooldown. Coupled with Suppression, that is another -10% skills energy cost and -10% cooldown.

In other words; you have minimum -25% cooldown, -20% skills energy cost. Curved Bow has +15% skills energy cost, so minimum you have -5% skills energy cost. This lets you kite almost indefinitely without costing too much energy, which is what any bow after Curved Bow does to you.

Alternatively you can skip Curved Bow and purchase Longbow. Or purchase both if you have the money, and keep either bow in your backpack depending on your need. With Skinning you should have no money problems.

Later you get Eeders Bow and sell Longbow. But Curved Bow stays because of its +15% skills energy cost (compared to Eeders Bow which is +45%). If you use something like Brynn Crossbow which only has -15% accuracy, you can use broadhead bolts which will do huge damage to enemy mages, especially with Long Shot.

[Včelí medvídek]

@funkmonster - btw is there some chance how really lower breaking arrows? As we discjussed it elsewhere, I am playing archer too, and while I am already ok with the build for all content, the ammo consumption is... tedious. (not need to mention I have fumble chance 0, but I travel to distant dungeons with about 100 arrows and soemtime I am glad I finish it and return to city with last stack going - of course good part is used during go into andd abck from dungeon.

PS: yes benevolence is enough for elf quiver, that was thing I bought first time of visit.. not sure about 4 stacks quiver by other traders

@OP = highly suggesting check dwarf equipment at harbor seller, there are some best in slot items, though some require raise brynn rep to amity