I'm playing my first (primarily) archer character and am trying to decide if I want crossbow or bow mastery. Crossbow mastery is attractive because of the rather big damage bonus, but I've heard some mumbling from earlier patches that imply that this damage bonus is non-existant. Bow mastery is attractive obviously because it's fast. So far, it looks like bow mastery at skill level 5 will give every bow I've found thusfar a recup. time of 0, which sounds really good to me. But the extra damage on the crossbows seems pretty impressively high - if you actually get that bonus. Also, if the recup time effects the speed of use of mana-using bow skills like splitting arrows I'd be leaning towards the bow even if the crossbow is getting bonus damage correctly. I'm also not entirely sure how high damage bows/crossbows get in the long run, so I wouldn't know if that crossbow damage that seems impressive now will be relatively minor in the long run. Also, I heard that in older versions True Shot didn't seem to be working, so I'd appreciate input on the trueness of that as well.
Obviously this is somewhat a matter of opinion, so feel free to give me your personal spin. Thanks...
PS - Any other archer-related advice is welcome too, like what mana-using bow skills to pump up...also, in case I wasn't clear, I'm running the latest patch (1.34)
Last edited by WildMoose; 15/08/03 11:47 PM.
