Quote Originally Posted by liljramos88 View Post
I never played 1.0 but heard at one point u had to buy arrows. Was it that bad of a experience that they removed it lol
Oh yeah, 1.0 archery, lovely times
Me and my best friend mained BRD back then, we were always broke in comparison to all the others. Especially for..what is now called raiding. For other content, you could at least only buy/craft the low-grade arrows, but of course to get top dps, you needed top-grade arrows as well. I remember going rates of 120k per 99 arrow stack >.<°
Using up 300 arrows for one raid evening wasn't rare...so I'm fine with ANY excuse to why we don't use actual arrows anymore xD
But I like Fenral's explanation best:

Quote Originally Posted by Fenral View Post
When you "repair" a quiver of arrows or a stack of enchanted throwing axes/knives in Diablo II, you replenish the stack. Think of the durability on your bow as including your supply of arrows and the inconsistency is solved.
In 1.0, not only BRDs had consumables, tomohawks and the like, basically everything tanks threw to get hate from afar, also used consumables. Because, duh, axes don't come back once they stick out of an opponent x)
So that repair explanation makes most sense because it adds an explanation for all classes, not just BRDs ^^