5/4/2024 0 Comments Best crossbow slings![]() ![]() Like the first time you have your archer pick up a composite longbow, and discover you need an 18 in strength to use it. If you're an archer, you're stuck when it comes to golems, liches, and anything else that requires better than +2 to hit in SoA, and +3 to hit in ToB (+2 and +3 being the best arrows available in the games, respectively). My first complaint is that there is not a single long bow in either SoA or ToB that hit everything. The first time you played BG2, if you played an archer or had an archer in the party, you would naturally chose longbows as your main weapon. First of all, picking longbows as your weapon of choice if you're an archer is the knee-jerk reaction when you start a game for the first time through. You don't get until ToB, and crossbows are somewhat handicapped by only having a base rate of fire of one, but it's something. At least there is one crossbow that can hit everything. If it wasn't for Turalash in ToB, I'd have put longbows here. (Out of curiousity, why is a sling a one-handed weapon? I understand that you only need one hand to throw a sling stone, but wouldn't you need a second hand free to load it? Why can you use a shield with a sling?)Ĭrossbows are next. Bonus points in that all character classes and kits (except ones that bar all missile weapons like Cavelier and Kensai) can use them. Almost as good as short bows, but you need to carry two different weapons to handle every given situation, plus the base rate of fire of all slings is 1 instead of 2. Plus, there's Everard that will hit things that Seeking won't. A high strength score, and you can be hitting things for 12-15 a pop - possibly more with specialty bullets. The Sling of Seeking is probably the best in the game for this. However, sometimes you will not use arrows in case you are fighting something that needs a +3 or +4 weapon to hit. With arrows, it's the most damaging bow in the game. Finally, later on you get Gesen, which can be used either with or without arrows. Then you can get the Tansheron bow at Trademeet with it you can hit 99% of everything in the game. You can start off almost as soon as you leave Irenicus' dungeon and get Tuigan, which has a base rate of fire of 3 - very useful. They have a base rate of fire of 2, and there are powerful ones sprinkled throughout the entire game. Here's my reasoning - short bows have to be first. Is it only me who thinks it's not particularly fair that probably the best three missile weapons in the game all come from the short bow class? If I was to rate the fired missile weapon classes from best to worst, it would be: short bow, sling, crossbow, longbow.
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