Someone judge my CRxbow

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revdb wrote on 2016-02-22 23:13

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I made this crossbow for a friend because she couldn't find anyone else to do it (I'm just average at carpentry), but then she got bored of it so she gave it to me.

I remember reading about the balance on these crossbows being a real concern, and this one ended up with 20 balance after upgrades(to be honest I've seen a lot worse on other people's xbows) so if someone could rate the balance that would be great. I'm probably going to be a casual archer, and I'm an elf so I should probably do archery at some point anyways. Other than getting the enchants on, the only thing I might do is reroll the reforge for effective range (is that a good idea?). And some recommendations for xbow enchants too please, I haven't been keeping up with new archery enchants and stuff.

EDIT: Also if someone explain to me where the bonus damage is applied during damage calculations for special bolts/bhafel huntress, that would be great.
Esileruf wrote on 2016-02-22 23:20

20 Balance aint optimal but it checks out. Probably mainly due to a lower quality than optimal(sigged+). Anything under 15 is liable to go under 80%.

Effective range is pretty much optimal, that or max damage 15+.

Xbow enchants, I'd go Shadow Hunter/Thorn Lotus(stamp>TL), since you don't seem to want to lose your wallet over interlocking/nobility. Iirc there's a bow enchant in Rabbie phantasm that's fairly good as well, so that on the list of eventual is plausible.
ironwoman wrote on 2016-02-22 23:34

The enchant you get from Rabbie Phantasm dungeon is the best one available for bows/xbows, but is also r3.

For reforge, I'd keep it, since if you're going to use it for "casual" usage, you probably don't need the effective range for serious contents anyway, and to really make use out of this bow, you'd need other gears to support it. Also for serious contents, I'd rather use Bhafel Combo anyway because of Fire Arrow bonus.

For the damage bonus, it's simply 10% more damage. As in, multiply the final damage by 1.10.
revdb wrote on 2016-02-23 02:17

Does anyone have info on what stats that enchant gives? I only managed to find the name but I didn't see any enchant stats that come out with the rabbie update.
ironwoman wrote on 2016-02-23 05:37

Quote from revdb;1294024:
Does anyone have info on what stats that enchant gives? I only managed to find the name but I didn't see any enchant stats that come out with the rabbie update.

http://mabination.com/threads/86492-KR-Mabinogi-Reborn-14th-of-January-2016/page13

Took me five minutes. Search more carefully next time.

It's 15-20 max and 15-20 dex, rank 3 suffix.
Kingofrunes wrote on 2016-02-23 14:23

Quote from ironwoman;1294028:
http://mabination.com/threads/86492-KR-Mabinogi-Reborn-14th-of-January-2016/page13

Took me five minutes. Search more carefully next time.

It's 15-20 max and 15-20 dex, rank 3 suffix.

Or maybe we need to make a central thread that has all that information in one OP for easier finding of that kind of thing. I should see about organizing that actually...
bob wrote on 2016-02-23 16:09

I'm gonna say it's certainly colorful kappa