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Tuesday, January 13th 2015, 2:16am

How valuable is Bow Training for Wardens or Druids?

So multiclassing in Scout automatically gives one the ability to wield bows an crossbows. This may be useful since it allows attacking from a range, although I'm not sure it it would be valuable for a Warden or Druid class and if management of amminution would be too much of a hassle.

Strength is probably the dump stat for druids, but I'm not sure how much that factors into ranged physical damage. Wardens have good STR and DEX so it probably would be useful for them, and I use my Warden to use ranged (magical) attacks anyways.

Also, does the bow training skill only work if you have Scout as a secondary class? Like we won't be able to use it for Warden/Druid, even though we took Scout as 3rd class.

This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "Lexferenda" (Jan 13th 2015, 5:57am)


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Tuesday, January 13th 2015, 2:54am

as a scout you can use up to 999 arrows at once, and these take a considerable time to deplete, so i would say ammunition is not an issue at all.
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Tuesday, January 13th 2015, 12:29pm

Take a crossbow, it will grant you far more damage. I usually play a scout primary and after getting past level 10 I never had an ammunition problem. The mobs drop plenty of ammo. The only time I ever end up buying ammo is the first time a new level of arrows appears. Then buying one stack usually keeps me going. I can go a few hours on one stack in an area where my level is appropriate and the right level arrows drop. If you put a stack in your character slot and keep another in your inventory you have 2k arrows and enough to last hours with only using one inventory slot. The big advantage of the Scout is getting the Warden pet Charon. His damage and buffs can be amazing if used right. There have been several threads about how over powered Charon is.

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Wednesday, January 14th 2015, 8:44pm

Ok the only combo you would be able to equip a bow or xbow is Wd/S and D/S not any class combo because you have scout as one of your classes.

Xbow is better damage while Bow has better range...find out by looking at Shot to see the difference in distance between the two weapons.

I believe the dump stat for druids is Stamina, or Wisdom but if I remember wisdom is only needed till around 8k which can pretty much be obtained from plussing your gear and equipment that has wisdom as a ghost stat.

Wardens primary stat is Strength, while Scout Primary stat should be physical attack, Strength and Dexterity grant the scout the same amount of physical attack so you can use dex/pa or str/pa, some even go with str/dex stats.

If you are planning on making scout your primary then s/wd is very solid scout. A bit confused as to what your intentions are for your character thou...you posted in scout forum section so are you planning on playing scout as primary?

Chiron not Charon...the Centaur ( lvl 30 Wd/S Elite Skill ). and for Class combo Elite skills this is not a bad site to look at http://runesofmagic.gamepedia.com/Warden…arden_.2F_Scout ( may have to copy n paste but is Runes of Magic Wiki Elite Skills section ).

As far as ammunition goes at level 55 you can obtain a bow or crossbow from ZS/DL that lets you summon arrows without having scout as primary just be able to equip the weapon. For Scout Primary there are two Item Set Skills that grant the scout the ability to summon magic arrows but just a heads up all these arrows that are summoned either by the bow or item set skill will vanish once you log out ( this does include getting booted or discond ).

If scout is your secondary then you will have Vampire Arrow and Shot as scout attacks that will be based off your physical attack.
The D/S I am not sure has any physical ranged attack elites, I know it gets healing arrows but ammunition is not required for this skill just like no ammunition is required for vampire arrow just focus ( scout energy ).

The only pointer I can think of is if you plan on having scout as secondary then most people just use the bow slot as a stat stick. So the type of weapon bow or xbow you use really will not make much difference.

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Wednesday, January 14th 2015, 9:20pm

As far as ammunition goes at level 55 you can obtain a bow or crossbow from ZS/DL that lets you summon arrows without having scout as primary just be able to equip the weapon.

what/where is ZS/DL?

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Wednesday, January 14th 2015, 10:25pm

They are two of the many lvl 55 instances. The full names are Zurhidon Stronghold and Hall of the Demon Lord. They are located in Aotulia Volcano. You can only run them twice a day (once on easy, and once on normal) and both easy and normal modes are ablessed to be a 12 man raid.
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Thursday, January 15th 2015, 8:13am

I don't recall there being an Easy Mode on those two...

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Thursday, January 15th 2015, 10:40am

No easy on ds/zs. Only hos.
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Thursday, January 15th 2015, 5:23pm

Huh, I thought there was. Oh well.
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