The harp is a lie.

[Physic]

Except the "strings" are attached to the same single piece of wood. Your example shows the strings attached to an additional piece sticking out near the bottom. Unless the "harp" of the "bowharp" is warped, there couldn't possibly be two usable strings hiding behind the wood in the center.

stop thinking of it as a harp, harp is only one of many stringed instruments. while i do think at the end of the day its just decorative, with no real use, they are still strings, maybe for looks, maybe for tension, maybe to represent the ministrel idea, even though they will never use it, but yeah its strings.

what you think of as arrowheads are actually negative space, holes in the the wood, the top is the string wrapped around the wood.

keep in mind they already have something nocked, and it is a totally different shape/size, if those are arrows, they would only fit on a xbow.

[Felis]

Its a harp and dagger connected together to a bow

[syntaxlies]

all i can say is the dude in the back is holding a scythe

after enlarging the pic it is very obvious

[syntaxlies]

and those are way too short to be arrows. unless teh artist has no concept of scale, i doubt they are arrows. im afraid is the bow harp is here to stay.

[Sephr]

all i can say is the dude in the back is holding a scythe

after enlarging the pic it is very obvious

I think it's a scythe too, not sure where he or she fits in the grand scheme of things with that.

Overall, all I know is that the black mage and monk looks freaking awesome. If those aren't new casting poses for the mages I'm going to be really disappointed.

[Konachibi]

It's definitely a bow.

Harps have more than 4 strings.

Don't know how many harps you've seen but if you knew how they worked you'd know each string is a different length in order to make the different notes.

The mechanism at the top of the bow could quite simply be a string adjustment tool, to increase or decrease the tightness of the bow string.

That is all.

[Kailea_Nagisa]

I think you're all in denial. Those would be some pretty damn small arrows if that's the case. Also why use some complex mechanism like that when you can just us a quiver? I mean real world aside, in a game it really doesn't matter or do much for you. Archers have no problem grabbing a new arrow quite quickly.

Also to that end, why have it in the shape of a harp? I mean if it's not a harp then SE is trying really hard to troll everyone. Archer was the only class in the list without an obvious job and Bard was the only job in the list without an obvious class. Put 2 and 2 together.

its not a harp, you can see that it is attached to the rest of the bow in the pic, hell I dont even have to blow up the image to see that -.-

[Volsung]

all i can say is the dude in the back is holding a scythe

after enlarging the pic it is very obvious

SE said they are going to start working on weild styles rather than making classes. What they actually meant I'm not sure but I assume it was for two hand sword and 1 hand sword on gla. Could they also mean lnc getting a new line of weapons to weild differently?

[Dreamer]

I don't think it's a harp. Just I really oddly designed bow.

[Shyd]

srsly wtf....

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