Crossbows

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I too have been wanting more ranged alternatives. In a way, it should be possible to throw all weapons. The problem is how you regain the weapon you threw away. But otherwise, stackable throwing knives/axes/spears/javelins/stones/skill gems would be great

-> It should be retrieveable.

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But please, don't make these machine gun crossbows as one encounters in so many games. These just don't exist (not even repeating crossbows can shoot so fast).

-> Don't worry if they do, they would probably name it AK47 and it would be actually a machine gun.

Ranged alternatives would be nice

How about projectiles being dependent on STR and DEX? So if you had for instance a longbow, you wouldn't be able to use it, while your STR was below certain amount. Your accuracy would also improve by higher DEX. That could work for most projectiles imao. With crossbows you'd possibly need less STR, but they'd be slower.

Anyway, just my two cents, not really sure how the whole weapons and attributes system works as it is.

A repeating crossbow would be an interesting take though, huge burst damage with a long reload time.

I WANT CROSSBOWS :) <3

I WANT CROSSBOWS

If they implement crossbows i hope there will be alot of different bolts you can equip so you can change the way the crosbow works ( for example explolsive, poisened or barbed bolts)

Recently I've played a ranger and it is so sad that it is possible to use only bows as ranged weapon.

I'd like to see not only crossbows but more ranged weaponry not only for dex, like javelin, throwing knives, stars, axes aything.

Yeah crossbowss are great, and seems pretty easy to implement don't know why they aren't in game yet;/

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Skyllia wrote:

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Firefly00 wrote:

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jikavak wrote:

Marauders that run around throwing spears would actually be pretty realistic.Problem is that Marauder is a STR class and STR gives bonuses to melee damage,which is not really what spears are.

Spears and throwing knives are two examples of ranged weapons that are kind of 'funny' in this regard. While DEX is the primary attribute for ranged weapons, these examples are propelled by sheer muscle power, which is represented by... yep, STR. Perhaps these could be represented as a subcategory of ranged weapons that work with both attributes?

exactly.my thoughts^

Crossbows would be a great addition to the game, and as some of you have already mentioned; the crossbow could be a hybrid between STR and DEX.

Could there be more projectiles aswell? A magical bomb for the Witch and Templar perhaps? The bomb could be a hybrid between INT and STR or INT and DEX? It's just a wild idea!