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Old 07-31-2005, 05:00 PM   #15
SixOfSpades
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Join Date: September 16, 2001
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When used without ammunition, Gesen fires arrows that strike as +4 weapons, and do 2 Piercing, plus 1D8 Electrical damage. These arrows fly through the air rather slowly, but your ApR will still remain the same.
However, when you put real arrows in your ammunition slots, the arrows travel at normal speed and lose the +4 enchantment: They now strike as whatever level of enchantment of the actual arrows. The Electrical damage from the bow still rides piggyback on the arrow, so your damage output increases from 1D8+2 to 1D8+1D6. Also, you can fire Normal arrows and thus convey spell-disrupting elemental damage to a Mage under Stoneskins and PfMW, or use Fire or Acid arrows to deliver 2 types of elemental damage at once.


Regular Daggers do 1D4 base damage (plus any extra from their enchantment). The Firetooth Dagger, however, does 2D4: Double damage, for no apparent reason. A Dagger's a Dagger, isn't it? And the extra attack per round should only be present in the Thrown version.
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