Restringing edgewood

[zutier]

Oi Oi Oi
i noticed that sedgewood bows cannot be restrung. this a bug?
i allways make my bows with hemp then restring to silk to keep from worrying about the skillfizzles, but now i have a friggin bow with an attack delay of 62, and that is just sad

[tindiyen]

It was like this from day 1 ... I would kinda agree its a bug but I doubt they will fix it. I got about 10 on a mule waiting for restringing I did pretty much the same.

Tind

[Krazick]

When LDoN first went live and the sedgewood bows came out, I did pose the question... and the answer was that re-stringing did not work.

But the real question is, once a bow is made (with whatever string), how often do people actually consider re-stringing it?

Let's say a person would like to "restring" the bow based on the situation... which would make more sense (based upon EQ's current game mechanics):

A. Have One Bow, with 3 stacks of strings (one of each type), and a Fletching Kit handy to restring on the fly

B. Have 3 Bows, one of each string type

Version A requires a container, and an additional slot for the 3 string types.... Not to mention the annoyance of having to actually do a combine (although no-fail). And as you use up a stack of strings, you have to re-stock.

Version B, although initially more "expensive" (needing to get 3 sedgewood branches) would over the course of time be less expensive. And there is no need to restring on the fly. Just pull out and swap which bow you want to use.

Does it really make sense to have them re-stringable?

[eniamn]

2 bows. one with lowest delay you can get and 1 the most damage you can get. problem solved and in less slots for less money.

[Ranger_Lahru]

If your restringing to get a higher damaging bow I believe your wasting your time, money, and slots. Yes the hemp string will get you a slightly higher damage per shot, but more delay, which means less shots, so the silk string, although slightly lower damage has a significant decrease in delay, which will only increase the number of shots per minute, and effectively increase your Damage Per Minute.

If you are doing the hemp string combines for skillups, and restringing with a silk b/c of the triviality of restringing, and thus a higher bazaar selling price for your product, or resell to vendor, THAT makes sense. But to do this for everyday playing/bow usage seems impractical if not counterproductive, to me. Just make the silk stringed bow and go. It isn't as though the string breaks. (Thank heaven or quite a few Planar bow users would be Pi$$ed.

[eniamn]

the high damage bow is used for pulling. doesn't have all the fancy pats if you just shoot once and return with the mob. not a battle bow lol.

[Silverfish]

Agreement on Damage Versus Delay

I agree that the power-damage bows are good stuff for pulling. My friend the paladin uses his bow once per fight, and if I could build him a bow that had a 100/500 damage/delay I'd do it in a flash. Putting 40 points on a pull once isn't a lot (hey, paladins aren't experts at bow combat, after all) but it's good enough to hold agro until he returns to the pull spot, and he's only going to take one shot, so long delay is irrelevant.

On a side note, some people who don't even pull with a bow will sometimes put on a bow in the range slot just to get the stats. I had another friend, a level 42 warrior, ask me to pull the combine for a nightmarewood compound bow because he got most of the components given to him by one of his friends. I figured, hey, how many people can say they got a Halfling cleric to build them an awesome bow? At 200 fletching, I told him it was unlikely, but he was willing to gamble, and a few clicks later (I had to make the string for him, too, but my tailoring is 162 so it wasn't so risky there) I find myself holding the bow! I suspect I'm one of a very small cadre of Halfling clerics that can say that. He's got it in the bank and is hard-charging 46 so he can actually use it, but to get back to the main point, he wants it as much for the stats as the ability to drill a mob with it. Since he got the parts given to him, and doesn't have a lot of platinum to buy a range slot item, and he needs a bow anyway, it seems a good choice.

Silverfish

[eniamn]

about making the bow