Larian Studios Forums Divinity 2 - Ego Draconis (English) Help/Tips/Tricks using bow as a warrior?

IS THERE ANY WAY TO DO THIS

yes. 1) Equip bow
2) Shoot things with bow(otherwise known as using the bow).

put 15 to 20 points in dex to use a decent bow.

You can have melee weapons and a bow equipped at the same time, with different keys/buttons to activate. There is a bit of a delay switching weapons, but especially at the beginning of the game it is handy to take a few shots at opponents as they approach, and switch to your melee weapon(s) when they get close, if needed (at least how I built my character I can do a lot more damage with melee attacks).
On the Xbox controller I have the X button set to melee attack, A ranged attack and Y as whirlwind.


Welcome to the forum.

Lol, a lot more useful then what I posted, although this is exactly what I did on the PC as well. The bow also helps with pulling only a few enemies at a time towards you, rather then the whole group.

On the PC, you have 3 weapon sets with are at the bottom of your inventory screen and you can click on them to equip different items to each set. F1 through F3 are the hot keys to switching when in battle without going to inventory.

Weapons switch virtualy instantly if you use special abilities. For instance, use a bow till enemies are close then use wwind or thousand strikes. zero delay. I prefer to use exploding arrow 1 shot then immediatly charge & wwind.

I was using poison arrows as my main bow skill until I was high enough to get explosive arrows. I think right now I'm on lvl4 EA, lvl 7 magic blast, and lvl 7 fireball. Between those three, I'm not really meleeing, which is fine the farther you get - some of the guys you DON'T want to meet face to face. I think the best warrior uses mage and ranger abilities.

i'm not sure what you mean by using "speical abilities",how does that work?

If you use the proper (Warrior) skills, you have no need for a bow or ranged skills from another class! You basically made a warrior who is shy of his main abilities!!!

No matter though, if that combination is FUN for you, then thats what its all about...

By 'special abilities' I simply mean skills. Instead of using f1-f3 for weapon switch use skill button. I have button 4 exp. arrow, button 3 rush attack, 2 thousand strike, 1 wwind. Since exp. arrow is a bow skill by pressing 4 you equip your bow. Rush attack is melee, so if you press 3 you immiediatly equip melee weapon. Very fast, very effective. If you come across some annoying spell caster try this combination 4 3 2. DEAD!!! Explosive arrow is the only ranger skill my warrier uses, it's to good not to.

I can't find the key for erlkings chest ....I need the exact location cuz I've searched everywere

Go up to the next floor... light the candle in both back rooms....center wall in front opens up...grab the chest and you are good to goback down and open it

Thx slot but I think there was a glich or sumthin now I'm forced to restart the game

GRRRRRRR, Please don't post something in a thread that has nothing to do with the Thread. THere are other threads about this, go there.

I like your style
I agree a good warrior (hero) try more than one strategy to kill monsters ...

That's also the fun of a game: try different things out and find Your Favorite Way to Play !

I'm sure there are many many combinations of building your kind of Warrior-character!! (or a Mage, Ranger or Priest or Dragon Slayer...
Or all the combinations between all classes( my favorite thing).... many possiblities!!

I start at this time 4 or 5 times over again (but play only with 2 character futher, the other were some "exercises" ... and I even don't try most of all skills there are in this game. At this time I used most of all Mage and Ranger skills + Dragon Slayer.

Some od the players make me curious about Rush Attack, Fatality, Thousend Strikes and more ...

And next time I wish to play at a higher difficulty, for sure, "easy" is now to simple for me... ...

There's a few achievements I forgot to grab, and as an achievement junkie, I have to have them. So I'll probably go with more melee skills just for something different, though I'm not a huge fan of just using the warrior.

Most of the time my EAs will take everyone out, if that doesn't, I'll use fireball - plus with those two skills they're VERY beneficial when facing groups. I LOVE running up the walkway in the Fjords where all the imps are and they all fall over at the same time *sadistic chuckle*