What bows are you using?

got a drago's vampire bow dropped, is it worth using that over elswyth's recurve? For me, thats a question between the composite bow(same status) vs the flat bow.

The flat bow is beautiful for its rate of fireing at 2.0, which is same as the short bow, and, the range is the longest which is 85. However, the flight time is the longest (slowest) there is possibile, from my experience, even when the target is moving a little, it will usually miss at a long range.

To over come this, many use FW to make the arrow travel faster.


The composite bow however, has only the range of 70, which is the second longest range, and the firing rate is 2.4, wich is the second fastest, but however, the flight time is .5, which is the fastest, making your chance to miss your target greatly reduced.

For me, I dont always bring FW or RtW with me, making more certain that my shot will hit, in exchange of 15 range, and .4 firing rate, making it a very fliexable bow.

So as you read the above posts I have made, my main two bows are composite or of the same status for this reason. OF course this could change as I become more advance with my play style and knowlege.

There was a thread in the warrior forum about sundering mods....they don't really add much damage, compared to Vampiric Yea, I've read up on sundering mods a lot and I'm aware of their inferiority in damage, but the health degen on a vamp mod can really be a pain, especially when you get caught in lag while wielding one. I did end up using a Vamp string after all and use the bow in ToPK barrage/pet farming. Now I'm just shopping for a good horn bow to use in a GvG spike build...

4: Deago's Flat Bow (which I rarely use also, expect in a barrage group where FW is oftern porvided, in which you can take full advantage of the rate of fire and long range.) I think it was also pointed out on another thread that using Flat/Short bows with barrage actually slow down your attack rate, because you have to break animation in order to use barrage again. Horn bows (with Armor Pen) are actually looking better for a barrage group, because the refire rate doesn't hurt you when you're spamming Barrage.

I think it was also pointed out on another thread that using Flat/Short bows with barrage actually slow down your attack rate, because you have to break animation in order to use barrage again. Horn bows (with Armor Pen) are actually looking better for a barrage group, because the refire rate doesn't hurt you when you're spamming Barrage. I think we're reading too much into this and probably taking it a little too seriously now

Lets all relax and have some fun

I use drago's flatbow coz it looks cool- So There!







BTW the above poster is probably right but lets forget that for the moment

I think it was also pointed out on another thread that using Flat/Short bows with barrage actually slow down your attack rate, because you have to break animation in order to use barrage again. Horn bows (with Armor Pen) are actually looking better for a barrage group, because the refire rate doesn't hurt you when you're spamming Barrage. Yes, you are correct.

However, my reason in supporting the deago to be the barrage bow is selfishly subjective, it is because a lot of my play style.

I allow my pet to die which become the oppoturnity for the nerco to create fiends, upon the pet's death, there is a cool down time where I could not use skills such as the barrage.

I highly dislike this period of time as I feel rather useless, so a faster fire rate provides some satifaction for my wait, even thou it might not be a long time of differience to some, but knowing that I am shooting the fastest rate I can support the reason above.

So thats why I picked the flat bow for my barrage group.

Please mind the spellings and things.