Racovering Arrows...

I dunno about anyone else but when I physically use a bow in real life I don't just leave my arrows in the target...
Ok so one or 2 may be unusable after how many times they've used, brokenby accident when I've pulled them back out (Behave dirty minded people! I know there is a joke in there :|) so on and so on.

Point being, we spend a lot on arrows as it is, so why does SE torture us like this? a few more people might WANT to play Bard/Archer if the cost was a little bit less.

Any thoughts tweaks?

to Clarify, Its not an XI Mechanic, its a real life mechanic... it just happened to be in XI too.
A Dev answer would be Re-asuring, even if they do just say "coming in 2.0!"

umm cobalt arrows rarely go over 50k a stack. Thats not a lot of gil.

cant use cobalt arrows fro the get go though i see your point, 1 stack doesent generally last very long for me i dunno 'bout anyone else, not only that but the general cost of armour might leave some players under equiped. i'm just speculating now though, even though i tend to level 2-3 classes at a time but that my stupidity/ego ¬_¬

All the other arrows are cheap from the NPC/Grand company too. It's only when you get to the high 30's and higher that you need to start buying from players.

i don't know, i think in real life if i'm trowing a lot of arrows on a target and other ppl and hitting and casting magic on the same target won't they break and be useless?

Touche Myrn, Touche
(cant do accents on this laptop)

Still kinda wish quivers were like shields to be honest, equip them for the stats and non-consumable. I know they aren't that expensive atm but I just don't see the justification in one DD class having to pay gil per 'melee' when other jobs don't and reasons such as 'realism' don't mean anything to me since it's a game. However if that isn't an option I like the OP's idea.

/gets fire blanket and wraps self in it.

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Originally Posted by Wevlum

Still kinda wish quivers were like shields to be honest, equip them for the stats and non-consumable. I know they aren't that expensive atm but I just don't see the justification in one DD class having to pay gil per 'melee' when other jobs don't and reasons such as 'realism' don't mean anything to me since it's a game. However if that isn't an option I like the OP's idea.

/gets fire blanket and wraps self in it.

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...personally I'd run, but yeah that works too!
and its a little unfair on newer players too, my first 30 didnt have enough oney to get a full set from the wards nevermind how much bows costed then... havent needed to buy one for a while so i dunno how much they cost now

They are cheap, bows don't require rare/annoying materials anymore and the ones from NPCs are cheaply priced as long as you get them from market ward or inn NPCs. New players should have no trouble affording them up to around L20 when they need to start getting crafted stuff, or they could buy them with seals.

I would say, how many times during a war have you seen bowman running out into the field to go and get their arrows back. And yes as Myrhn said all the magic and attacking is likely to damage the arrows too lol. In a target you can get arrows back, in live kill, probably not so much lol.

Although I still stand that I'd prefer the 1 arrow for stat route too.

I agree, getting anything back at all would be helpful.

Up till some patches ago, you used to be able to recover throwing weapons when thrown at a mob.

Can't remember which patch it stopped in, but it was always a nice plus @.@:;

The reason you have to pay for arrows, is the trade off for being at a distance when DDing - you avoid the AoE that other DoW have problems with. Just dont use cobalt arrows on stuff like sb/farming if you're having gil problems - keep your cobalts for bosses and dungeons etc

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Originally Posted by Excer

The reason you have to pay for arrows, is the trade off for being at a distance when DDing - you avoid the AoE that other DoW have problems with. Just dont use cobalt arrows on stuff like sb/farming if you're having gil problems - keep your cobalts for bosses and dungeons etc

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This makes no sense. Blms don't have to pay for nukes besides MP and MP is self replenishing. Blm has the range and has insane fire power.

Stack STR and Attack Power and just punch the crap out of mobs. If someone says something, tell them to f-ing buy you some arrows if they want you to shoot something for them. Heh.

I'd be good with a 5-10% MAX chance at recovering an arrow. It wouldn't make a huge difference, but it would feel "right".

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Originally Posted by SirThesd

I dunno about anyone else but when I physically use a bow in real life I don't just leave my arrows in the target...

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I dunno about anyone else, but when I hurl a fireball in real life, everything around it always takes splash damage (friendly or not), including me.

So how can BLMs use Flare without dying? This mechanic should also be fixed to conform to real life.

Anyways literally the only justification for consumable arrows is realism and I have news for you...our level 50 skill has us firing an arrow while doing a back-flip and said arrow splinters off into a thousand other arrows. Example of why realism can suck it in favor of awesomeness.

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Originally Posted by SirThesd

I dunno about anyone else but when I physically use a bow in real life I don't just leave my arrows in the target...
Ok so one or 2 may be unusable after how many times they've used, brokenby accident when I've pulled them back out (Behave dirty minded people! I know there is a joke in there :|) so on and so on.

Point being, we spend a lot on arrows as it is, so why does SE torture us like this? a few more people might WANT to play Bard/Archer if the cost was a little bit less.

Any thoughts tweaks?

to Clarify, Its not an XI Mechanic, its a real life mechanic... it just happened to be in XI too.
A Dev answer would be Re-asuring, even if they do just say "coming in 2.0!"

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Oh nice! What do you shoot? I use my Hoyt Intruder for bowfishing and a really nice Golden Eagle set at 75lb for everything else.