arcane archer q

[teapotdome]

does the arcane archer bonus stack with other bonuses? i know a +1 arrow and a +1 bow do not....since every bow (every bow we care about, i loot enough masterwork longbows thank you very much ) is +1 that would make the 1st level useless. and i could get the favor to get +3 deneith returning arrows long before +3 arcane archer. would that mean you'd be dumping in tons of enhancement points just to have +2 at the 5th tier? i know this means i could focus on the bows other properties and not the pluses......except once you get deneith favor. anyone know yet?

[Benjai]

It shouldn't stack, so yea, at this level a +1 bonus over house D arrows is kinda pathetic, and by kinda I mean a complete waste of specialty.

[Impaqt]

Well, except for the 100% Retruning thing....

Thats kinda nice.....

Ya know.. For all ther eangers who constantly complain they have to carry around 3000 Arrows to feel they have enough and always complain about how they never have any pack slots open....

[Zenako]

The perks to the enhancement lie in freeing up Pack Space, and never having to run back to House D to stock up. At higher levels for the +4 or +5 arrows, those will be cool, and give a sizeable boost over the default to hit bonus of many otherwise excellent bows which might only be +1 or +2 for example.

There is also the True Shot effect which sounds neat. Not sure how useful, but neat since any dedicated archer is probably hittting most anything they shoot at anyway. However, getting it a lower levels would be very nice. Use True shot with your Destruction Bow on that real high AC target to drop it by 4 for the rest of the battle or your team. Then switch to damage bows.

Way back in Giant Caves, when I was actually killing the giants with my Ranger instead of just sneaking past them all, hitting Elite Fire Giant Champions was not a given, so I often popped on Precision for the +4 to hit and fired away with a Destruction bow. Then stayed hiding in the mushrooms and sniped him away with a wounding bow. Took a few minutes, but a lot less than if I was trying to hit his normal AC.

[gahusker]

Anyone know if this is for arrows only? Does it make bolts too?

[Yaga_Nub]

Anyone know if this is for arrows only? Does it make bolts too?

Since ranger feats are based around bows (for the most part) and elves don't get the xbow proficency by default I would guess that it's only arrows.

[Solmage]

I don't know which dev said it, and I won't put my hand in the fire saying I am certain of this, but I believe it was said that arcane archers would also make bolts..

Still, the entire ability seems a bit of a waste unless they start releasing some additional AA perks like attaching certain spells to arrows (improved precise shot + finger of death on the arrow FTW on an elven AA wizard ) or hail of arrows or good ole death arrow.

Failing that, and considering how totally overpowered melee is vs ranged, and how inflated DDO's numbers are vs D&D, they should at least consider making the arcane archer's arrows to-hit and damage stack with a bow's enhancement.