Which rank bow is for which rank in Archery skill?

[steinhandir]

Messy topic says it all, kinda.

Example:

With 80 Archery, 50 Sharpshooter, What rank bow would be appropriate to use?

80 archery is R40, should i just add my sharpshooter skill to that which makes R60 the bow of choice?


With melee weapons you have 1-100 "normal" skill and 1-100 Mastery, creating 9 "levels" of ranks: 1-25-50-75-100-125-150-175-200 (please do correct me if i am wrong)

With Archery there is no mastery, but some people are saying that Sharpshooter is the mastery?


This stuff is confusing. I asked ingame earlier and i got alot of different and conflicting answers.

[Holmis]

Use the highest ranking bow you can get your hands on, it's not any more confusing than that.

[Dark Stealth]

you know you can use every rank, right? with pvp use the best you can cause u most likely wont have enough use to really make the high durability loss a big deal. for training just stick to r40 and lower unless you need max damage or are shooting into a wall

[steinhandir]

Yes i know i can use any rank i want to.

But i also know that using weapons outside of your skill causes massive durability hits.

So either we are all clueless on this, or its true that you can just go ahead and use whatever bow you want...
Did any of you actually try and see if the durability hit was the same on all ranks?


I would check myself but i dont have a high enough bowyer around to make anything above R40 at the moment.

[Viluin]

Rank 0 shortbows degrade faster (0.15 dura per shot) for me than rank 60s. :confused:

[Apewall]

R40 = 40 skill

[TheDor]

Use the highest ranking bow you can get your hands on, it's not any more confusing than that.

This.

All the crap on the forum about not using a weapon that has a higher rank then your skill is from retards in beta that listened to ONE GUY that did an invalid test. You do not incur more durability loss on high rank weapons with low skill, or vice versa.