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Subject: "Use Best Weapon Skill" More..... Author: Darkstone News [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: Fri, Apr 11 2003, 02:14pm In reply to: Darkstone News 's message, ""Use Best Weapon Skill" - broken? or please explain" on Fri, Apr 11 2003, 02:08pm ----------------------------------------------------------- Seriously ... look at it. You go to all this trouble to make sure Magery gets those Mage Weapons and they work. You go to all this trouble to make sure all the Melee weapon skills get UBWS and they work. Then you say screw Archery? I just really don't get it Fertbert. ----------------------------------------------------------- It wasn't that simple... at first I had implemented Use Best Weapon Skill to use archery and to apply to ranged weapons uniformly with melee weapons... but the designers, QA, and the playertesters found this discouraged skillset diversity. There was no longer any reason for a warrior to go through the trouble and expense to train archery... they could just cheaply train a melee skill and along the way find a Use Best Weapon Skill bow and be all set. There was the general feeling that this would destroy archery as a skill and tick off everyone who had spent the time require to train in archery. As an aside, there are other pretty much useless combinations of item properties.... here are the ones off the top of my head: - bows with Use Best Weapon Skill - elemental slayers with the damage types focused upon the elemental's strongest resist (a fire elemental slayer that does mostly fire damage for instance) - leather armor with Mage Armor I do agree that it would be nice if Use Best Weapon Skill meant something on bows... I thought about this for a while this morning... the best solution I've thought up thus far was changing Use Best Weapon Skill on bows to Lower Ammo Cost. I'll mention this idea to the designers and see what they think. Cheers, Fertbert ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ----------------------------------------------------------- if this is the case, why was it stated a few weeks ago by one of you dev guys that it was a bug.?!!! ----------------------------------------------------------- It is a bug that bows spawn with the Use Best Weapon Skill on them. Is is by design that Use Best Weapon Skill does nothing on bows. Sorry for any confusion, Fertbert [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]