True. Also some of the arrows not being buyable and/or taking way too long to farm is pretty shitty. I used cheat engine to itemgib 600 stormhawk arrows and 600 spiritflame arrows, and playing with those + a fully upgraded black bow on a 55 dex build has felt really nice in pve... but it took cheat engine to make that the case 😕

Doesnt help that the black bow was dethroned and gutted to hell in its scaling compared to previous games. Now pulley is the best scaling wise

@@cleverexpert2 Fr, its DS1 variant used to get an S scaling in every upgrade path, except for fire, chaos, lightning and raw (and it still got an A with the latter). Such a massive nerf for a better moveset...

Tbh I dont think bows would be a great gameplay. I do understand that people want them but I feel like it would make cheesing bosses unavoidable. I think they would have to balance around bows too much. Any boss that doesnt have nay punishment mechanic for ranged builds or a gap closer would be too easy to beat with a bow. And bosses that are too active and close up in your face would be absolutely annoying to fight at which point why are you even playing a bow build when you are in melee range and dont need any ammo for melee.

throwing knifes can hit for 800? in most souls games bows weren't meant as main weapons. elden ring is the strongest i remember them being since maybe demon souls.

same with those annoying enemies that drop those magic arrows

He also didn't mention that "Through and Through" makes arrows hit multiple enemies in a row

@@MrZjadacz also go through shields.

Also good for being a dick during invasions

True

I make people stop in their tracks with my Albinauric Bow... well, it probably helps that I am invading in the Spiritcaller Cave with Phantom Great Rune buffed doggos. There are even times where I just instantly kill someone with rain of blood arrows, hilarious seeing it happen to this one dude casting Elden Stars. I have a dex stat of 71 (and 20 vigor because idgaf about diminishing returns). Actually, before I was constantly invading the Spiritcaller Cave, I was using a Horned Bow set with Enchanted Arrows. Always great to see a host take a huge chunk of damage. Even greater seeing a dude instantly die from an over 1700 damage Moonveil L2 when they think they can just simply approach me and wipe me out. I feel my Vigor being as low as it has been has made me more interested in using ashes of war like Transient Blade and Corpse Piler, there's a thrill of knowing you're wet paper to the competition. Could be the White Reeds armor, but there's a surprising amount of things you can survive, (and a surprising amount you can hold for just 20 endurance). This started because I wanted to do a for fun cosplay of Chitose Karasuma, pilot of GA-006 Sharp Shooter from Galaxy Angel, and I really NEED to play the PC version.

Meanwhile Radahn can snipe you from 50 thousand meters away, thanks Miyazaki

But both the arrows and AoW and Lion Greatbow count as "gravity attack" and deals 40% more damage to otherwordly-type enemy, like Onyx Lords, Star Beast and Asteel

Radahn can snipe you from miles and that one enemy npc on liurna tower has spells with infinite range. What's up with that?

does it scale bleed arrows with high arcane

Hate to be that guy but someone has to be I am afraid. Literally EVERYONE knows about that shield and is sick of the sight of it.

@@LJAndrews1986you could say people have gone mad

I can’t even get that shield because I keep falling to my death and I’ve been using erdtree greatshield to counter spammers

Malenia and Malekith drink poison.

What arcane?

@@nathreetimesnineequalstwen7172 the more points you put into your arcane stat, the higher the build up of status conditions like poison or bleed will be per hit.

@@nunchuksteev9811 I know, but how much arcane for the serpent bow to proc poison in one shot? 🙂

@@nathreetimesnineequalstwen7172 - My Arcane is 94 / 99 with Godrick Rune, pretty much standard for me.

Yeah you can get them all on the Haligtree.

What 💀

@@higguma not infused - per se - but given an Ash. The only real good choice is the Rain of Arrows, with Dwelling Arrows. Uses 1-Arrow up, but can cause 1000-ish dmg if multiple arrows hit a single foe

It is now!

@@willbyers7233 WAIT WHAT, since when!?!

@@archmagetyler not sure when haha but I watched Nizar GG vid of bows only and I followed it.. I can safely say that I could trigger status effect using Serpent Bow. I havent touched my Black Bow because of Serpent Bow..

Pully Bow. It also has the highest reach..

I never even thought about stealth fighting a boss lmao. I doubt that will ever come to a souls game.

If you want to maximize dmg double lion bow for rhadahn rain or 1 lion 1 golem and albenuric or black bow just remember that the higher physical damage you have the better the percentages help and ffs stop using blue talismans

Pulley crossbow does dummy status proc and great for close range

Spear talisman works with bows as well but shard of Alexander is a solid choice or sacrificial talisman don't use the arrow range talisman unless you want it for rhadahns rain for whatever reason honestly feel like dmg is more useful than range

Either

Excuse me? Did you even play with the black bow

Sounds like you need to drink less

Mmmmmmm Strongbow

@@SonKunSama Lol, what's funny is that I barely drink, if ever.

You can, just two hand it

@@zsDUGGZ really? I thought I tried that. I'll have to check again lol

Funny thing is that samurai were primarily mounted archers for most of Japan's history. Weird that FS doesn't like bows that much.

@@captaincobalt2111 Actually, I think the bows compliment the swordplay of samurai builds neatly. Get dangerous enough with a bow and people will try to charge you and kill you, many have died to my Moonveil despite me being only 20 vigor because my dex sits at 71 and my Int stat at 60 (150 build btw calling it the Sellian Samurai). Only the THICKEST of builds usually survive Moonveil, and they still stagger, leading to the big guessing game.