Composite Bow  

To be able to critical shoot someone equal to your level, your critical shot ability must be the same as your level either through item boosts or by specialization alone. If on the frontiers for RvR and a level 50 mage is in range, make sure you have level 50 in critical shot to be able to use that ability on them. Like I said, this can be done through items or by specialization alone to raise the skill that high. So, in my opinion, it is not good to leave critical shot at 27.

I would say that you could train higher in bow still because your skill with the bow has to do with how well you use it. i.e. how often you hit/miss or how hard you hit. So I don't think it is pointless to go higher just because you don't get crit hits. I notice whenever I have a +skill item like a +hammer item on my thane that I hit for more damage. This must be true for a bow, I will find out soon because I just made my hunter.

Heheh me neither ..... lol nothing to do with melee..!

heres the difference. Im not sure if you realize DPS means damage per second. Therefore both bows have no difference in damage over time. Great comp does high damage, but its slower. The reason it costs more is best explained in the Hunter FAQ linked in a previous msg. (you can only decrase a weapons delay by half)

thought i might mention that spears in midard are Slash weapons too, the different arrows damage types make them more or less effective, depening on the targets armor/skin type... thrust arrows are good for chain wearers, bad for boney undead... slash ones are better in general. And no, your weapons skills in spears/swords makes no difference from what i've seen, tho dex helps tons

Heheh actually....killing yeallow 95% of the time isnt that col for a lvl 9 hunter....i am lvl 8 myself, and i do oranges 75% of the time ad yellows allways :-)

I have 6 comp bow, and 6 spear (only raise to 10) and beastcraft 4, and my hunter is great in groups...and very good solo to :-)

Jaudi, Hunter on Lancelot

You start at lvl 5 with Crit Shot 1. Keeping my bow skill maxxed each level, I received Crit shot 2 at lvl 8 and Crit Shot 3 at lvl 10. I haven't played my hunter much further than that, but that's what i've noticed so far. Hope it Helps

Dumah Swiftstryk
<Sleip Nir>
Pendragon Server

Your skill can go higher then your level, but there is NO benefit whatsoever to having a skill level higher then your player level. This has been very specifically stated numerous times by Mythic themselves. Having 50 skill at level 50 will give the exact same benefit as have 100 skill at level 50 (though I'm quite sure it's impossible to get nearly that high) Having 47 skill at lvl 50 with +3 to the skill via items gives you 50 skill and saves you almost 150 training points to use on other skills. It's important to realize that +skill items do NOT give you skill based abilities or spells. Having 47 skill with a +3 skill item will not get you any abilities that are obtained at 48,49, or 50 skill such as spells or combat styles. But you will have an effective 50 skill for success and damage calculations.

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