Ranger Bow question

[Calagari]

I'm back again. I bought my ranger a long composite bow thinking he would do better with it. He is only level 2 so I don't know if that affects my problem. I tried to remove his long bow and the game won't let me. I can not physically take the bow from the weapon slot. I keep getting a message that it can't be removed. Can the Ranger not use a composite long bow? He has the skills for bow.

[Aerich]

That is strange. Are you sure the message is saying exactly that his longbow cannot be removed? It's possible that you can't put a composite longbow in that slot (e.g. if you have less than 15 Str or if you have a shield equipped), but I've never heard of it the other way around. I'm assuming you don't have a cursed longbow because I've never heard of one in the game. You character level shouldn't have any effect whatsoever on the ability to use a bow, and a ranger is certainly allowed to use one.

It's possible that it's a minor glitch - do a quicksave and quickload, then try again.

[Calagari]

Yes it says "this item can not be removed". It is a standard long bow that was purcheased in the beginning of the game. His strength is 16. It makes no sense to me that I can't remove it. I tried removing the arrows first thinking they werekeeping it from being removed. That didn't make any difference.

My Thief/Mage has the identify spell memorized in her book. When I try to id an item the menu comes up do I want to use spell or scroll but they are both darkened out so I can't use either one. She has enough stats to use the spell book and i know for a fact the spell is memorized Yet I can't use the skill.

Maybe a reinstall would change this? Or could there be some other reason I can't remove the bow or use the id spell? This makes no sense to me.

Originally posted by Calagari: I'm back again. I bought my ranger a long composite bow thinking he would do better with it. He is only level 2 so I don't know if that affects my problem. I tried to remove his long bow and the game won't let me. I can not physically take the bow from the weapon slot. I keep getting a message that it can't be removed. Can the Ranger not use a composite long bow? He has the skills for bow.

[Stratos]

I don't know about the bow, but as for not being able to cast Identify; are you wearing an armour? You can't cast arcane spells in armours. Can the Thief/Mage cast other spells?

[Roboghost]

Yes. It's a bug. I've never mentioned it before myself--just lived with it. It seems to happen with certain character and combinations of weapons consisting of a bow/sling and a melee weapon of some type. I just save, quit, and restarted to "burp the bug."

[Aerich]

I can say for sure that the greyed-out Identify is because your thief/mage is still wearing armor. I occasionally have that happen to me, too, when I forget to take the armor off my T/M, bard, or whatever.

As for the bow-removal bug, take Roboghost's advice. Now that I think about it, I can remember this happening to me before, but it's pretty infrequent.

[Calagari]

You and stratos are right. The thief/Mage had plain leather armor on. It slipped right by me. Sorry about the post on this I will try to be more careful next time.

I restarted many times trying to get the bow to be removed finally I gave up and resorted to using Dale keeper. I hated to do so but really had no choice. I guess the alternative was to let him die but I hated to do that for a bug/ glitch.

Originally posted by Aerich: I can say for sure that the greyed-out Identify is because your thief/mage is still wearing armor. I occasionally have that happen to me, too, when I forget to take the armor off my T/M, bard, or whatever. As for the bow-removal bug, take Roboghost's advice. Now that I think about it, I can remember this happening to me before, but it's pretty infrequent.

[Stratos]

There's a armour available later in the game that allows you to cast spells while wearing it, but it's a chainmail and unusuable by thief/mages. For this character, you should really consider using spells like Armor and Shield. The Shield spell gives you the same AC as a scale mail (if I'm not mistaken) and the Armor spell, while not offering the same protection as Shield, last much longer, 9 hours.

[Calagari]

I just finished up the Vale of Shadows and bought the shield spell. I found the armor spell in the vale so I am set now for that. I also bought Melfi's acid arrow for the upcoming temple area.

Originally posted by Stratos: There's a armour available later in the game that allows you to cast spells while wearing it, but it's a chainmail and unusuable by thief/mages. For this character, you should really consider using spells like Armor and Shield. The Shield spell gives you the same AC as a scale mail (if I'm not mistaken) and the Armor spell, while not offering the same protection as Shield, last much longer, 9 hours.

[galdur]

Btw, when we are by rangers... do you know this feature???

When you create a fighter with 2* specialization in long sword, he has 1 and 1/2 attacks. But when you create a ranger with same stats and specialization, he has 2 and 1/2 attack, which is total brutal at beginning. But when you equip him the shield with sword however, his number of attacks lowers to 1 and 1/2. Strange, huh? Bug or feature?
I always thought fighter is better melee warrior then ranger...

P.S. This works same also with bow.

[ 10-12-2004, 09:23 AM: Message edited by: galdur ]