Larian Studios Forums Beyond Divinity (English) General SKILL BUG: ranged specs. bow/crossbow piercing

the piercing skills for bow/crossbow does not work. i tested all different kinds of bows and crossbows ( piercing, crushing, shadow, etc) and there is no difference in any damage if i have 0 and if i have 6 skills in the piercing. if i use crossbow i do only crushing damage. with 6 skills into the piercing skill with crossbow i still do ONLY crushing damage and no piercing. what is the purpose of that skill??? it is totally useless. it does not do anything.
also the reload times for bow/crossbow are so uneven. bow gets +2 to reload for lvl 1 and crossbow gets +9. it evens out later on but by that time bow is very hard to paly with.
also there are some minor bugs with the different arrow profeciency. i will update you on that matter as soon as i am done testing. bye all

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The piercing bonus of the bow/crossbow skills was fixed in the 1.43 patch. It works for me, anyway (only tried a crossbow since that patch). Using normal arrows, I do a minor amount of piercing damage even with no skill points in that bonus.

The melee skill two handed crushing damage incorrectly gives a bonus to crossbows.

no, piercing skill was NOT fized in 1.43
you do piercing damage with your crossbow because the arrows itself give you piercing damage. normal arrows give 10-12 piercing damage.
please next time make sure you know what you are talkign aobut when you reply.
larian you guys really need to work on your bugs. that is the game with the most bugs i have ever played, and i have played every single RPG known to PC gamers .
at this point the game really sucks. especialy the summoning doll bug. i cant use any dolls. game crushes as soon as i click on the dool.
and the specializing threes are retarded because you dont have enough skills to master even 1 three, and there are many many of them.

When I said "It works for me, anyway (only tried a crossbow since that patch).", what I meant was that it works for me, and that I had tried with a crossbow since the patch. Sorry I was so vague about that. I quicksaved, attacked a couple monsters, got the listed damage, quickloaded, put 5 points in Piercing and got the additional piercing damage. The damage was on the low end for the stated 19-39 bonus range, possibly because I was at the end of an act, and jumped to the battlefields to test this, where the monster level was lower than my own.