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Originally Posted by pivo
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Few beginner questions: (say for Troll or Ogre SK)
- this (higher bow damage because of weighted axe) only works against players or also all NPC's?
- is there player's level limit or can this 'technique' be used from lvl 1?
- do you need any specific bow, or will any bow work?
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* The damage increase to the bow affects Players and NPCs, however, as explained in a previous post, in this thread, this affects the PVP server the most.
1. The most damage increase comes from the Weighted Axe that can be used by a combination of limited races and limited classes.
2. Referencing the Weighted Axe and its 150 delay. The classes utilizing this 'technique' don't have means to summon arrows (unless they have a mage in the group, have a ranger with the summon arrows bracer around, are a fletcher who will again have limited supplies or there is a vendor selling them near by.
3. In a group the classes affected (warrior and SK) are often the role of the tank not the ranged dps. You may not get your place in a pickup group to do this.
4. The damage increase is not enough to do more damage than the DPS in the raid, however, it does increase your damage if you have all the trimmings like worn, spell and Fleeting Quiver haste.
But again even with these you will not out damage the DPS classes.
5. This and I can't stress it enough affects PvP most giving an unfair advantage to surprised players that don't build the stat(s) to defend against this type of attack. Or are of a class most vulnerable to this type of attack.
* It is level limited. There is a damage cap at various levels and at level 1 you are going to do 26 damage at most for every shot utilizing this 'technique'.
* It works with any bow but bows with a faster delay get the biggest benefit due to the base damage increase.
(Note: There is a bug that too fast of a delay can actually do less damage utilizing the most haste. Look up Fleeting Quiver discussion on ZAM.)
In Conclusion, it is most likely an unintended bug that may have even happened on live for a period of time building up to Luclin as seen in the discussion thread on Exquisite Velium Reinforced Bow on the website ZAM (outlined on this thread). But note some of the damage from ranger bow attacks 'on live' as discussion building to Luclin (even in the ZAM Exquisite Velium Reinforced Bow thread) could be with out the bug be as high as 1K and........ this isn't this way on P99 - ranger bow damage doesn't do all that much.
If determine a bug and put into perspective it isn't warranted to bring down blue and green to patch and if it was; the simplest bandaid fix until a patch for this usual trash vendor item would be to remove it from the game. The other longer delay items are harder to get or simply don't give the same grossly larger damage increase as the Weighted Axe.