Curse

lord_shar · Feb 16, 2006, 12:06 AM // 00:06

My 3-day old ranger's current bows:

...and Elwyth's.

EDIT: Special props to CoolGuy for hooking me up with the deadbow.

Mahanaxar · Feb 16, 2006, 12:57 AM // 00:57

Uncustomized weapons are meh

I have the whole green collection (all customized), but i use drago's flat, graygore's zealous, a collectors' recurve with +5 ar grip and poisoners string and the fourth slot is variable (elswyths recurve for spikers team, staff whem I'm trapping, dragos vampiric to farm ice imps)

Haggard · Feb 16, 2006, 01:02 AM // 01:02

nobody ever uses horn bows ~ yes theyre fugly, and fire like bazookas, but they also hit like bazookas as they have 10% armour penetration always

Valerius · Feb 16, 2006, 01:47 AM // 01:47

i only ever use my Shadow Bow if i'm doing Barrage {E}... since refire rate doesn't matter cause' i'm only spamming a 1 sec recharge skill

romeo_longsword · Feb 17, 2006, 08:16 AM // 08:16

Quote:

Originally Posted by kc99

As i said in my earlier post, This is a much debated topic right now but i don't really care if its the worst or not.

I mean what are the alternatives? Vampiric? Zealous? Elemental? They all have pro's and con's, And that ensigns comments about PVE players were well wide of the mark.

If someone thinks that sundering is "T3H UB3R MOD" then let them, Why should we be bothered?
Until some boffin gets his calculator out and tries to blind us all with science about how % of that does'nt does'nt compare with % of this.

Well ah'll stick with me worst mod for the time being.

I pretty much agree with the direction on questioning this, if its not sundering, what would you rather take?

If you go got other fancy stuff, lighting, fire, I hear from a Nerco player that, it will cancel out some of the advantages that a spell caster, or a buffer could provide to you.

The only other two for me are, posion and vamp strings.

Both of which are not really considered as an all round suited bow string, even if I pushed to support a posion string, compare with the possibile extra damage in one shot with the sundering, I would rather take the sundering instead.

So that really leaves me the chioce between the sundering and vamp, and vamp would not be the main bow I am carrying because of the health draining effect.

Stranger The Ranger · Feb 17, 2006, 08:23 AM // 08:23

Quote:

Originally Posted by Haggard

nobody ever uses horn bows ~ yes theyre fugly, and fire like bazookas, but they also hit like bazookas as they have 10% armour penetration always

Mursaat Hornbows look great ^^

romeo_longsword · Feb 17, 2006, 08:41 AM // 08:41

I think thats a great screenshot, but for some reason, I love the wooden feel of a bow.

Best looking skin for me its the Elyth's whatsherface Bows.

Nikki Moonlight · Feb 17, 2006, 09:44 AM // 09:44

as a note..my 4th weapon..which is brand new is dragos flatbow

Valerius · Feb 17, 2006, 02:21 PM // 14:21

Quote:

I pretty much agree with the direction on questioning this, if its not sundering, what would you rather take?

If you go got other fancy stuff, lighting, fire, I hear from a Nerco player that, it will cancel out some of the advantages that a spell caster, or a buffer could provide to you.

umm... i'd rather take any other bow string then the Sundering string...

are u talking about an Orders Necro? well of course you can't use an Ele string if you have one in ur group... as orders only affects physical dmg...

romeo_longsword · Feb 17, 2006, 02:30 PM // 14:30

You are indeed correct about the matter.

What would be your ideal chioce and why?

xiv · Feb 17, 2006, 02:58 PM // 14:58

i use the following
elswyth's recurve
elswyth's long bow (best for poisoning longrange)
stinger (great for short poison range)
the all mighty CANDY CANDYCANE BOW nutin beats that lol
and im gunna buy another dragos flatbow and maybe the vampiric one to (i accidently deleted meh dragos rerolling my pvp char hehehehe. back then it was 45k now there what 30k? itll be my 5th dragos lol

xiv · Feb 17, 2006, 02:58 PM // 14:58

i use the following
elswyth's recurve
elswyth's long bow (best for poisoning longrange)
stinger (great for short poison range)
the all mighty CANDY CANDYCANE BOW nutin beats that lol
and im gunna buy another dragos flatbow and maybe the vampiric one to (i accidently deleted meh dragos rerolling my pvp char hehehehe. back then it was 45k now there what 30k? itll be my 5th dragos lol

Valerius · Feb 17, 2006, 08:00 PM // 20:00

my main string is a vamp... i usually always use either TF or Frenzy depending on my build... i have a Zealous on my Horn for Barrage... 4 Ascalon Bows each having a different Ele string on it (Fiery, Icy, Shocking, Ebon) for when i attack physically stacked players... Sundering really has no use imo

Francis Demeules · Feb 17, 2006, 08:09 PM // 20:09

4 green bows: Stinger, Gargash, Thornbeard and Boulderbeard

elektra_lucia · Feb 17, 2006, 08:14 PM // 20:14

Sundering Storm bow of fortitude.
15% @ enchant.
req 8
max damage, +30 health.
Has something else I think, forgot now^^

4runner · Feb 17, 2006, 08:26 PM // 20:26

1.sundering eternal bow of fortitude
req9
+15 always
-5 energy
10/10
+30 fortitude
2.sundering strom bow of Fortitude
req10
+15^50
10/10
+30 fortitude
3.drago flat bow
4.

moriz · Feb 18, 2006, 02:07 PM // 14:07

long range: poisonous longbow of defense (14-26, perfect defense grip, FEATHERED SKIN!!)
short range: vampiric half-moon bow of marksmanship (14-26, 4-1 vamp, marksmanship grip)
interrupter: fiery recurve bow of somethingoranother (15-28. can't remember the rest)

combined value: exactly 2501 gold

XvArchonvX · Feb 18, 2006, 02:23 PM // 14:23

I just won an auction on a +15%^50 storm bow that I'm going to add a +30 grip to. I'm not sure if I'm going to make it sundering or vampiric though...

SnipiousMax · Feb 18, 2006, 03:52 PM // 15:52

Quote:

Originally Posted by XvArchonvX

I just won an auction on a +15%^50 storm bow that I'm going to add a +30 grip to. I'm not sure if I'm going to make it sundering or vampiric though...

There was a thread in the warrior forum about sundering mods....they don't really add much damage, compared to Vampiric

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nessaja

it's a constant 1% armor penetration. 10% of 10=100% of 1

Not sure how good or bad that is, or what that translates too, but seeing how 40 armor is an increase of 100%->200% damage against a wariror with 96 AL (armor+shield) it would be 0.96 armor pentrated it's a ~2% increase in damage.

with a 22 max damage.. 0.22 damage extra won't even give a full point extra (on average). When it does trigger it will do about 2.2 damage extra, but that's only against warriors.

This was figured for a sword, but asuming it's a max short bow:

Max damage of 28 and refire rate of 2 seconds = .28 extra damage every attack, so .14 dps more.

Looking at in from a spike:

2.8 extra damage on triggering.

Vampiric is much better:

+5 damage every 2 seconds...or 2.5 extra dps.

Assuming perfect conditions, and that everything lands of course.

Yakumo · Feb 20, 2006, 01:41 PM // 13:41

1. Vampiric short bow
2. Zealous half moon
3. Sundering composite
4. Poisoner's longbow

The bows either have a Defense or a Shelter bow grip.

I look forward to the day when I get a nice bow from Tombs or SF.