Morphic arrows or metalline arrows

[Elindel22]

Hi. I hate having to toggle my enhancements from one
to another all the time in the middle of a fight.

Does Morphic Arrows simply apply the same damage spread out
in bludgeoning, piercing and slashing damage or does it apply
additional damage of those types ?

What is generally better, Morphic Arrows or Metalline Arrows ?

[xCataluna]

Morphic Arrows doesn't add damage, it changes the damage type.
Arrows normally deal piercing damage, so toggling Morphic on means they also deal bludgeoning and slashing damage, bypassing the appropriate damage reductions.

Metaline Arrows doesn't add damage, it changes the material type.
Mundane arrows won't break damage reduction on things with silver, or cold iron, or byesk, but toggle Metaline on and it will, because now it counts as all the metal types.

Which one is "better" depends on what you're fighting.
Skeletons? Morphic will help you out.
Devils? Metalline is your friend.
Etc.

[Arkat]

Morphic Arrows makes your attacks eligible for the +1 to critical threat range granted by the Legendary Dreadnought ability - Pulverizer.

Therefore, my Ranger (when he is in the Legendary Dreadnought epic destiny) uses Morphic Arrows exclusively unless he's shooting at creatures like demons and devils that require a special metal in order to penetrate DR. In those cases, he switches to Metalline Arrows.

[unbongwah]

http://ddowiki.com/page/Monster_DR_and_Weaknesses

You use Morphic / Metalline / Aligned arrows to break DR (damage reduction). A simple example: zombies have DR/slash, meaning they resist piercing and blunt damage but not slashing damage. Since a longbow does piercing damage OH NO! Not to worry, though: turn on Morphic Arrows and your bow damage is typed as slashing, blunt, and piercing all at once. Take that, foul zombies!

[How does it even work? Shhhh! It's magic.]

But, you may ask, you can only have one secondary imbue active at a time; what do you do vs monsters with double-DR like "Cold Iron + Good," meaning you need to use both good and cold-iron to break DR? Here's where you learn to combine damage types:

The damage type of your bow will carry over to your arrows. E.g., if you use a bow with Holy damage like Silver Longbow (http://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Silver_Longbow), your arrows are Good-aligned. So if you're fighting one of those aforementioned "CI+G" foes, you can use Metalline Arrow with a Holy bow to bypass their DR.
You can buy arrows with specific damage types. In particular, the House Deneith arrows (http://ddowiki.com/page/Favor#House_Deneith) you can buy after reaching 75 Favor with House D.
BTW, if you invest in Use Magic Device (UMD), eventually you can use wands / scrolls of Flame Arrow (http://ddowiki.com/page/Flame_Arrow), which lets you create stacks of...flaming arrows. [Kinda self-explanatory.]

[Ravanys]

If you have Morphic toggled on and the Feat Weapon Specialization: Piercing, does the damage bonus to piercing get overwritten by the morphic toggle?

[GeoffWatson]

If you have Morphic toggled on and the Feat Weapon Specialization: Piercing, does the damage bonus to piercing get overwritten by the morphic toggle?

You'd want Weapon Specialization:Ranged, as neither WS:P or WS:B works with bows.
The WS feats each work with particular weapon types, regardless of what damage type they actually do.

[Ravanys]

Thank you for the information.