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Originally posted by Dundee Slaytern:
Remember the last time you told me about the Grandmastery Patch, Jim? As we both know, once you get that GoES, Strongarm chews up the Tuigan Bow and spits it out.
Gesen Bow beats Strongarm when used with ammunition, but personally, I dislike the Gesen Bow. I do not know why, but I do. I just cannot phantom my Archer using such a weapon. Heh.
On a side note, why the heck are the ToB Short/Longbows INFERIOR to their SoA counterparts???? I mean... HELLO!
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Yes, that's what reminded me about the GoES, long live the Strongarm!
Gesen is an awesome bow when used correctly, but I know what you mean about disliking it.....there's just something about it that cries "DONT USE ME".
All the bows in BG2 are pretty lame. I don't know why they didn't have higher damage bonuses in ToB (instead they seemed to think people would prefer a movement rate increase.....hellooooooo!).
Composite longbows were also lameified, reducing the damage by 1 point, and fixing it at +1 regardless of enchantment
. A +3 Comp. should grant +4 to hit and +5 to damage, in BG2, it grants +4/+1!). This is strange IMO since crossbows work differently...a heavy crossbow always has enchantment, +2 damage (i.e. +3/+5 for a heavy xbow +3), so why they ruined the composite bows I'll never know (or at least never understand!).
The bows in IWD and IWD 2 are superb (have you got IWD2 yet?). I just picked up a beauty in the Severed Hand (IWD2) that has +6 to hit and +6 damage
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