New Weapon Suggestion

Hi. I have a suggestion for a new weapon type.

Seeing how wands are the only one handed range weapons, I would like to suggest a new one handed range weapon: the crossbow.

> Like wands, it will have up to 3 sockets
> Unlike wands, which can be dual-wielded, you can only carry a quiver or a shield in your off-hand while using a crossbow (the downside with equipping a shield with a crossbow is GGG having to come up with some new animations)
> It will be affected by bow nodes and can be used for bow skills
> It can have implicit variants such as Increased Critical Strike Chance, added flat Accuracy Rating, added percentage chance to bleed, etc.

Sounds good?

Crossbows are in game but as bows.

But as separate category it would be better - more viariations.

But with shield? Thats kinda illogic because crossbows, comparing to bows - had highier penetrate power but were much much slower. Piercing maby as standard thing?

Well, if you google, there are some instances of crossbow users who also have a shield equipped. I think in Diablo you can use a crossbow with a shield. In some of the Call of Duty games you can use a riot shield with a crossbow. I don't play those games though so I don't know the mechanics but yea, you can equip a crossbow with a shield.

This new crossbow in PoE doesn't have to be a big weapon - it's a 3-socket weapon after all. I was thinking being able to hold a shield with the crossbow somewhat compensates the 6-socket capability of the existing bow.

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Buenomars wrote:

In some of the Call of Duty games you can use a riot shield with a crossbow. I don't play those games though so I don't know the mechanics but yea, you can equip a crossbow with a shield.

You wouldn't like the mechanics, riot shield is pretty much two handed. It's a primary weapon and although you can equip a crossbow as a secondary, you need to swap weapons and sling the shield on your back to operate the crossbow with both hands.

To use a crossbow with one hand it would have to be completely automated, which couldn't be done without the use of magic. In that case there would be absolutely no point in using the crossbow form because you could just spend the energy to shoot the projectile directly instead of using the same amount to cock the crossbow. And we get a magic gun, but wait, what's the point in using a projectile if you can just shoot a pellet of pure force? And so we get a wand.

I can't really see crossbows bringing anything new to the table, at least nothing we couldn't get by simply making more bow skills wand-compatible.

It always could be with some sort of magazine.

Like his:



But it would have reload time and that i dunno if is worth impelemtation. GGG only knows.

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de99ial wrote:

It always could be with some sort of magazine.

It would certainly need one. Crossbows of that type existed and they were operated by a crank so you still needed two hands and their power/range were so low they did any damage only because bolt heads were poisoned.

You can always do 1 handed and 2 handed crossbows. I would prefer to have 2 handed ones that are slower than bows, but have high base damage per hit. Also implicits like build-in pierce chance, bleed chance or ignoring portion of enemy armor.
Even possiblity to have build in option like "Attack speed modifiers doesnt affect attacks with this weapon. 200% value of attack speed modifiers instead apply as damage increases".
This should create new possible builds, where current meta is just stacking insane attack speed.