Brilliant Ursine Great Recurve Bow  

Realm:Hibernia
Slot:Ranged
Weapon Skill:Recurve Bow
(Ranger)
Damage Type:Thrust
DPS:12.60
Delay:5.30
Magical Bonuses:
  Dexterity: 25 pts
  ALL Archery Skills: +3
Item Bonuses:
  Dexterity attribute cap: 4
Damage Modifiers:
  Base DPS: 12.60
  Quality: 97%
  Condition: 100%
Starting Condition:100%
Starting Duration:100%
Default Bonus:25%
Quality:97%
Weight:3.80 lbs
Utility:31.70
Bonus Level:26

Levels of Use:35 - 43
Rarity:Common
Last Updated: Jun 29 00:29:22 2011
This item is dropped off monsters:
Found in:

Dropped by Ursines

Per patch 1.88 (03.28.07)
- Archers have had their unique bow lines replaced with a new line, called "Archery".



Stats prior to patch 1.107:
Magical Bonuses:
Dexterity: 21 pts
ALL Archery Skills: +3
Utility: 29.00


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heres what you do
# Feb 18 2002 at 1:39 AM Rating: Default
Use this bow from 35 to 40, then your 40 epic to 45 then the one from the black wrathis (sp?)
High Level Bows
# Dec 28 2001 at 6:18 PM Rating: Default
Well I am of the mindset that going too high on the bow is not necesserily the best thing.

1. It "seems" to me that when you have a too high of level bow you seem to fumble more often even with a maxxed bow skill.

2. In the case of the epic bow you get nice +recurve stats which will offset any minor damage difference.
bow
# Dec 18 2001 at 6:17 PM Rating: Default
dropped somewhere in king room triebh. Also for epic that bow is good 30-34 but 34 or 35 you will need to switch to this bow still orange to solo effectively. This bow is better then slightly longer draw time but much better damage. you arent figuring in material level of weapon used vs that of enemy. Also i got some insanely nice bow giving to me golden reaver i believe something like 16.2 dps 4.7 speed +11 dex + i think 2 recurve might be 3 i forget honestly 90 qual. level on that bow is at least 43+ from black wriath i thought. Also all the above info on bows being better and time to switch is from my experience only as a 36 ranger soloing pretty much
Epic isn't better.
# Dec 17 2001 at 6:31 PM Rating: Default
The Epic Bow is not as good. You didn't calculated the +15% bonus on top of the 10.1 DPS (11.61). I don't recall Epic Bow's Bonus, it's either 5% or 10%, if 10% it's DPS would be 11.55. Either way, I don't think 0.1 DPS margin makes any difference. It's all about dmg per shot and distance if you are comparing these bows.
RE: Epic isn't better.
# Feb 01 2002 at 8:28 PM Rating: Default
Interesting. Almost every quest I've done has yielded higher Quality ratings than most dropped equipment, and furhtermore fletchers make bows in their 90% range.

I could be wrong, but, I'm pretty certain that THE HIGHEST LEVEL quest connected with epics, at level 40, would probably yield a bow of 100% quality, since the 30th level quest did, and the 25th levle quest yields 100% quality armor.. gosh.. I dunno..Also, the quest bow is around 4dps more damage. Though, there is a level 40 quest that can be done which is separate from the "epic" bow, is almost as good, and you can then pick up a really nice dagger instead. <shrug>

quality matters!!
# Dec 06 2001 at 2:28 AM Rating: Decent
For those of you who think this bow is better than the epic think again:

effective dps of this bow = 11.3 * 0.89 = 10.1 dps

quest bow is 100% quality, so effective dps = 10.5 * 1.00 = 10.5 dps

nuff said. mob drops (excepting the special one-time drops) and vendor gear is worthless junk. always was and always will be. You are *much* better off using 100% quality quested gear (unimportant armor pieces like feets/hand usuable til green or even grey if good stats) OR high-quality crafted.

Low quality armor is hurt *doubly* by the low quality as stated below.

Effective af of 60 af, 95% crafted armor = 60 * (0.95)^2 = 54 af

effective af of 60 af, 89% mob drop piece = 60 * (0.89)^2 = 47.5 af
link
# Nov 30 2001 at 7:37 PM Rating: Decent
the link actually is

http://www.camelotherald.com/more.php?id=14
crafted vs. dropped
# Nov 30 2001 at 7:36 PM Rating: Decent
That's not really true about the dropped armor being better than crafted. The quality of a piece of armor (which is always higher on crafted over dropped) has a large impact on the effective AF of a piece.


Here's a quote from Camelot Herald www.camelotherald.com/more.php?id=14 explaining it...


----quote----------
"Effective AF" is derived from base AF (the number currently displayed on right-click). Every armor item has a base Armor Factor, base AF divided by 2 equals Item Level for everything but Cloth, where AF = Level. But when you're in combat, the base AF is affected by Quality and Condition. Quality affects both the chance the armor will completely absorb the blow, and the
amount of damage you take when it does, so the impact of quality "double dips". Condition only affects the damage taken. So "Effective AF" equals Base AF times Quality squared times Condition.

The "ArmorFact" field on the character display has always reflected this effective AF rather than base AF. Soon, right-click will also show
effective AF, and base AF will only be shown on Shift+I."

---end quote-----

The same calculations apply to weapons. The only other thing to really consider is the bonuses to stats you can get off dropped items. Once SpellCrafting gets put into the game... player crafted and enchanted equipment will likely be far superior to dropped stuff.
This bow is better than the epic
# Nov 16 2001 at 7:33 AM Rating: Decent
And really if you think about it the epic is barely worth doing. All the stuff you get along the way is nice, but no true Ranger would let his bow go blue. By the time you can complete the epic (30) this bow will be red, so you get one or two levels of use out of it before this is better. And you could use the Ursine bow while its red anyway, just wouldn't see the benefit. I believe the epic bow has +4 Recurve which is very nice, but its still tough to say it was worth all the work to get it. Anyway, just a tip for everyone out there:

Don't buy armor if you can help it. After 20 or so the stuff dropping in Spraggon Den and Treibh is so much better and easier to get than what you could be buying. I only buy armor now if I can't seem to finish up a suit or something. This will be even MORE true when they finally Itemize Koalinth Caverns and Corusicating Mines.
Nabucho ranger in Igraine
# Nov 13 2001 at 5:53 AM Rating: Default
Where can get a info in epic quest ?
Where can i look at epic weapon and quest ?
lost it
# Nov 13 2001 at 3:30 AM Rating: Default
I had an ursine dweller drop one of these on me tonight...and it fell through the floor and disappeared. I damn near cried...
epic bow
# Nov 11 2001 at 7:24 PM Rating: Default
Epic bow is only 10.5 DPS
its not that great
# Nov 10 2001 at 5:16 AM Rating: Default
do the epic quest you will get a better bow
info
# Nov 10 2001 at 2:20 AM Rating: Default
it is a random drop off Ursines in Treibh Caillte the dungeon in Lough Gur.

should be level 26+ to go in and level 30 or so to fight the bears.

the bow is orange to a level 34.
umm ya..
# Nov 10 2001 at 12:22 AM Rating: Default
Where can this bow be found? And what level was the person who conned this bow?
wow, what dropped that?
# Nov 09 2001 at 8:27 PM Rating: Default
What dropped such a nice bow?
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