Hi all,

What's the point of the Crossbow spec line, and can it be used as part of a semi-viable spec?

So far as I can see, speccing in it gives you no active abilities, no passive skills, and presumably just raises the lower-end of its variable damage. Apart from pulling (in which case it doesn't matter even if you miss), what's the point in it?

What about a 42 Shield / 50 X-bow spec?

Heskey wrote:Hi all,


What about a 42 Shield / 50 X-bow spec?

sure, ur basicly a gimped scout with det instead of stealth^^

Kind of a forgotten relic from a bygone era.

Always thought they should have done something with those skills, xbow, shortbow on hib, and throwing axes on mid.

Give some skills of specing in them, or maybe skills on a per level basis.

I guess this would apply more to the other lines, cause they did add snapshot eventually, however only for arms, not inf.

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Does anyone know if crossbow damage is based off of dex?

Isn't this crossbow thingy not a Classic ability?

The crossbow is used for pulling for an armsman, same for mercenary, bm, hero, warrior, berzerk, infil, shadowblade.
However the armsman and the warrior are the only two able to spec into it.
Because these classes have so many spec points, they can decide to specialize in 2 weapon lines and in shield.

If you are only a tank armsman you can go:
28 Parry or 31 Parry
30 Crossbow or 31 Crossbow
50 Slash or 39 Slash
42 Shield or 50 Shield
4 Polearm

Crossbows allow you to pull to dps and to interrupt casters (mobs too).
At 51 crossbow you can hit for as much as a 51 Bow-user, though the max range of a crossbow is still shorter thand the minimum range of a bow.

Requin wrote:Isn't this crossbow thingy not a Classic ability?

This hit and run trick in the video is at level 25 crossbow.
Didn't test it during beta now. I don't know if should be (or is implemented) here.

1.65 crossbow was useless they patched this later in.

I think only arms and infi can use crossbow?

Yes i said all the class that use crossbow or equivalent (short bow, throwing weapon)

I remember a dude from uth 1 who played a saracene arms with max dex and crossbow spec. was pretty fun in battlegrounds

Svardson wrote:I remember a dude from uth 1 who played a saracene arms with max dex and crossbow spec. was pretty fun in battlegrounds

Uthgard 2 uses the same formula for archery as crossbow. An Armsman with a spec level in xbow should do the same damage as a scout with the same longbow spec level.

That makes for interesting spec possibilities...

The fear of most archers is getting charged by more powerful melee classes before enough damage can be put downrange. With an armsman, you can be "bring it on, come at me, bro!"

useless. only good for inst dd charge