The Quivering Quiver... make it stop

[Mjoll]

As it works now the quiver has a chance to generate a stack of 20 arrows whenever you get hit in melee, up to a total of 10 different arrow types and the quiver can hold 300 arrows/type. Which is cool.

What is not cool is that once you reach the maximum amount of arrows of one type any other newly generated arrows of the same type go into your inventory, often flooding it in a matter of minutes.

So I'm suggesting one of two fixes:
- generate nothing for arrow types that have reached maximum quiver stack size
- generate other types of arrows for arrow types that have reached maximum quiver stack size

[pjw]

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So I'm suggesting one of two fixes:
- generate nothing for arrow types that have reached maximum quiver stack size
- generate other types of arrows for arrow types that have reached maximum quiver stack size

Hey, it's a chaotic/xoriat quest line.

I"d suggest tasty ham once an arrow type is full. Or lumps of coal.

[kyleann]

Hey, it's a chaotic/xoriat quest line.

I"d suggest tasty ham once an arrow type is full. Or lumps of coal.

Hamster thrown weapons, which can be use one of two ways...Hamsters thrown AS weapons, or Hamsters throwing shurikens from your shoulder. "Go For the eyes Boo!!"

[FooWonk]

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I prefer my simpler solution: unequip the quiver if you don't want the excess arrows. Also, if you're quiver is getting full, you're obviously not using a bow.

[NUDS]

Hey, it's a chaotic/xoriat quest line.

I"d suggest tasty ham once an arrow type is full. Or lumps of coal.

Yes!! Especially tasty ham(om nom nom!)!

Almost all my characters have the quivering quiver from farming the chain for the bracers. A portable chaos orb to generate delicious ham would be epic :P

[Dulcimerist]

Having another quiver in your backpack set to auto-gather doesn't catch the excess ammo?

[Vengeance777]

Having another quiver in your backpack set to auto-gather doesn't catch the excess ammo?

It does. Both my extra quivers were receiving the excess Xoriat arrows.

[brian14]

Does Quivering Quiver produce arrows even when not equipped?

[chodelord]

my quiver produced +3 xoriat shocking arrows that I could sell once....

[Jamma]

Hamster thrown weapons, which can be use one of two ways...Hamsters thrown AS weapons, or Hamsters throwing shurikens from your shoulder. "Go For the eyes Boo!!"

I thought FvS's already got the second option..

[Mjoll]

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I prefer my simpler solution: unequip the quiver if you don't want the excess arrows.

The 'don't use it if you don't like it' solutions don't help me, they get rid of both excess arrows and arrows that are not in excess.

Also, if you're quiver is getting full, you're obviously not using a bow.

My quiver getting full means that I want to use the arrows whenever I feel like it and not because I'm trying to stop the arrows from flooding my inventory which is bad game design.

And yes if I want to generate arrows fast I will obviously not use a bow. To generate arrows I have to get hit. To get hit I have to use a bow in melee range of the mobs but then what's the point of using a ranged weapon if I intentionally let the mobs hit me. So when I need more xoriat arrows I have to swap to melee and from an archer's point of view the 'melee > generate arrows > range' process looks like bad design again.

Having another quiver in your backpack set to auto-gather doesn't catch the excess ammo?

That is one possible solution but having to carry 1-2 more quivers to fix inventory clutter problems is ironic.

[Shade]

Yea I found this out the hard way too.. Tanking horoth with it on... ugh took me forever to loot after destroying those hundreds of arrows.

Would be really nice if it stoped generating once any stack hits 300.. Or even better if we could toggle its ability.

Could be a nice new tech for all guards actually, since some quests/areas you want all your guards disabled, but may not want your gear off..
EG: Hound, Let sleeping dust lie.. Anywhere you may kill things you dont want dead.

Could be an option like - rightclick - disable item. Which keeps it equiped, but disables all/most of its features. (should keep the basic benefits of the item, like say if its armor, the ac, or if its a simply +X stat accesory.. but nothing more complex to keep the coding simple)

[Drfirewater79]

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I prefer my simpler solution: unequip the quiver if you don't want the excess arrows. Also, if you're quiver is getting full, you're obviously not using a bow.

While normally i might agree with this concept it doesnt work for the quiver well .. ... what they need is to make this area epic so that you can have a epic quiver with unlimited arrow slots.

Or some sort of limiter like perhaps only get arrows when the mobs fail a crit against you (that way your only getting arrows on a mob swing of 18-20 that your ac was high enough to avoid)

[Glenalth]

Unequipping is the way to go, just like any other guard in the game when you don't want it to fire off.

Personally I'm funneling the more exciting arrows into my main thin quivers and dumping the rest of them.

[RandomKeypress]

A lot of the Xoriat stuff has a sting in the tail - I thought that the inventory problem was a deliberate choice, a la 'The Magician's Apprentice'. Really handy use of magic, but it gets out of hand...

[Tsuarok]

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Could be an option like - rightclick - disable item. Which keeps it equiped, but disables all/most of its features. (should keep the basic benefits of the item, like say if its armor, the ac, or if its a simply +X stat accesory.. but nothing more complex to keep the coding simple)

Yes, wouldn't want to strain the programmers.

[Mjoll]

A lot of the Xoriat stuff has a sting in the tail - I thought that the inventory problem was a deliberate choice, a la 'The Magician's Apprentice'. Really handy use of magic, but it gets out of hand...

The quiver already has a 'Xoriat touch' like most items from the Harbinger chain. But while the other items apply a penalty to a skill or stat or they have a negative effect that procs when you get hit the quiver's positive effect procs when you get hit.

Having a positive effect on an archery item proc when you get hit in melee sounds pretty twisted and sick for all the Xoriat related lore and roleplaying purposes, there is no need to add the quiver overflow effect on top of that.

[xberto]

I think the quiver is fine how it is. If your using a bow when manyshot comes up, you dont have a problem. If your a melee that refuses to unequip then your just looking for something to complain about.

/notsigned

[Lifeblood]

The Quivering Quiver... make it stop

I hear saltpeter helps with that

[Hokiewa]

/notsigned

I like the madness of it