Thread: bow vs. xbow
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Old 09-28-2001, 11:31 AM   #4
Baron Nocturna
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Join Date: August 27, 2001
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The NPC with Xbow proficiency would never USE xbows anyway. Xbows generally suck and even in a historical (read: real life) sense they would be impractical for such a small party of adventurers. They were very much a support weapon for short range encounters and need infantry to use effectively. You get much the same thing in BG2 but the rate of fire sucks and other than the pure novelty of xbows (they sure look cool) they are worthless compared to short bows.

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