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Wolfman31488@
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 Posted: Tue, Feb 09 2010, 7:43 AM |
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Joined: 28 Jan 2010
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Obviously the crossbow, is weak "from my own experience" I was curious how someone. If they "Had" to have a crossbow based character... How would "they" or "you" would go about such a character? ....Obviously it would be a role play based character.... I absolutely love crossbows in my own personal preference.  Can arcane archer skills be used with a crossbow "doubt it" Strangely. a Crossbow was used to puncture heavy armor. but inside this game. any ranged weapon seems to do that fine.
Any insight would be helpful... And yes I already know its useless 
just ask yourself "What if"
P.S I apologize for all the post about advice and difference of things..
I am always trying to learn more about the game so I can apply myself more fluently in the area of "role play" Thank you all for your time and input.
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Jyro X
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Posted: Tue, Feb 09 2010, 7:47 AM |
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Joined: 04 Dec 2009
Location: North Carolina (EST/GMT -5)
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Isn't it possible to get dev crit with a crossbow?
Nevermind me though. I never play archer characters anymore.
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Dwagin
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Posted: Tue, Feb 09 2010, 7:52 AM |
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Joined: 08 Aug 2006
Location: The Land of Nod
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Arcane archer skills work only with bows. IIRC.
NWN archery skills now work with them, from what i understand a patch worked with it. http://nwn.wikia.com check ot make sure
You can get dev crit with any weapon. Including darts.
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Kjetta
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Posted: Tue, Feb 09 2010, 7:52 AM |
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Joined: 11 Nov 2006
Location: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
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My crossbow-wielding cleric/monk of Hoar worked quite well. I went for high wis and cha and used Zen Archery and Divine Might to pack a punch.
Fully buffed, he ran around with 56 ab and 70 AC, doing ok damage.
He'd be better with a bow, for sure, but the crossbow worked just fine, and even balanced out some of the cheese of going cleric/monk.
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Yurell
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Posted: Tue, Feb 09 2010, 8:11 AM |
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Joined: 06 Jan 2008
Location: ANU, behind the coffee mug (+10 GMT)
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I always vote fo rcrossbow, but which do you intend to use - Heavy or Light?
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Gers
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Posted: Tue, Feb 09 2010, 8:15 AM |
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Joined: 30 Apr 2005
Location: Kentucky, USA
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There's also some pretty nasty bolts out there for xbows that went in a while back. I don't recall the stats, but I do recall they were good.
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Yurell
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Posted: Tue, Feb 09 2010, 8:17 AM |
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Joined: 06 Jan 2008
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Gers wrote: There's also some pretty nasty bolts out there for xbows that went in a while back. I don't recall the stats, but I do recall they were good.
Especially if you play drow.
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Lally
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Posted: Tue, Feb 09 2010, 8:19 AM |
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Joined: 16 Jun 2007
Location: Leather chair, USA. Tell me about your mother.
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Tossing in a vote for epic slinger. >.>
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Kjetta
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Posted: Tue, Feb 09 2010, 8:30 AM |
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Joined: 11 Nov 2006
Location: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
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If you go crossbow, try to become the nemesis of some Rakshasa-based shifter. You'll have a blast.
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Selvec Darkon
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Posted: Tue, Feb 09 2010, 9:04 AM |
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Joined: 12 Oct 2005
Location: On a Disk, carried by four elephants, which stand on a gigantic turtle.
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Kjetta wrote: If you go crossbow, try to become the nemesis of some Rakshasa-based shifter. You'll have a blast.
My name is Vincent Lacroft. *Hikes up his crossbow* I hunt soul thieves.
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Wolfman31488@
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Posted: Tue, Feb 09 2010, 13:20 PM |
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Joined: 28 Jan 2010
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Quote: but which do you intend to use - Heavy or Light?
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I believe I would go with the heavy crossbow, considering all I have noticed the difference between, is the weight and the extra damage, so I would certainly go with the heavy crossbow
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QPR
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Posted: Tue, Feb 09 2010, 13:57 PM |
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Joined: 21 Sep 2008
Location: Norway
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Light crossbow has higher coolness factor though. Heavy and light is like the difference between an Baretta pistol and a M16 assualt rifle. The former is smaller and does less damage, but is easily concealed and more stylish.
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RuffTuff
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Posted: Tue, Feb 09 2010, 17:15 PM |
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Joined: 20 Jul 2008
Location: Clock Town
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My advice for the crossbow is to play a zen archer. Cleric or monk, Monk will probably work better for the 30 level cap. Unfortunately, NWN left out many of the special equipment that PnP has for the crossbowman, such as a repeating chamber and the hand crossbow.
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Selvec Darkon
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Posted: Wed, Feb 10 2010, 3:27 AM |
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Joined: 12 Oct 2005
Location: On a Disk, carried by four elephants, which stand on a gigantic turtle.
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Tried to do a monk, dwarf Crossbow using guy a while back.
One thing that I always thought would be cool would be if Crossbow used STR instead of DEX. But eh, what ya gonna do.
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maughter
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Posted: Wed, Feb 10 2010, 3:49 AM |
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Joined: 10 Jun 2006
Location: Wales, the UK
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I have a Crossbow toting Halfling Bard, using a Light Crossbow.
With standard Bolt+2 and a Seeking Crossbow, my max crit so far has been 50 damage
Gers wrote: There's also some pretty nasty bolts out there for xbows that went in a while back. I don't recall the stats, but I do recall they were good.
I won't leave a spoiler, but i can attest to this. It's like launching mini Greatswords at people. 
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MoshingChris
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Posted: Wed, Feb 10 2010, 6:40 AM |
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Joined: 04 Sep 2007
Location: Down South and Bent Edge
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This seems to be build thread stuff personally.
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Herra Tutteri
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Posted: Wed, Feb 10 2010, 12:46 PM |
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Joined: 22 Jul 2005
Location: Vaasa, Finland
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I think using a crossbow is only good for a dark skinned human male character to hold sideways while saying "I gona bang yo ass!"
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