A thought on crafted arrows

[Webin]

Now that EQ2 is approaching three years old, tier 8 is soon to be added, and we have a really awesome(tm) tradeskill dev... I feel it's time to ask a question of great importance..Why are woodworker crafted arrows named for the metal instead of the wood?I realize that the tip of an arrow is made of metal, but it seems much more logical (to me) to name the arrow for the shaft material, since it constitutes the bulk majority of the product, and (in real archery) is more important than the composition of the tip.  Saying that I'm using an indium arrow makes me think the whole thing is made of metal.  I'd much rather shoot sandalwood arrows.

[KerowynnKaotic]

<cite>Webin@Befallen wrote:</cite><blockquote>Now that EQ2 is approaching three years old, tier 8 is soon to be added, and we have a really awesome(tm) tradeskill dev... I feel it's time to ask a question of great importance..<b>Why are woodworker crafted arrows named for the metal instead of the wood?</b>I realize that the tip of an arrow is made of metal, but it seems much more logical (to me) to name the arrow for the shaft material, since it constitutes the bulk majority of the product, and (in real archery) is more important than the composition of the tip.  Saying that I'm using an indium arrow makes me think the whole thing is made of metal.  I'd much rather shoot sandalwood arrows.</blockquote><p>Because we have no fiberglass or aluminum.   So, it's always going to be a wood base.    /shrug</p><p>And the proper description of the Arrow is " Indium BROADHEAD, BODKIN, FIELD POINT " there by telling what type of ARROWHEAD it is .. not the type of shaft.  </p><p>It makes sense (to me).    <img src="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/images/smilies/b2eb59423fbf5fa39342041237025880.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" /></p><p>Though, I miss the way EQ1 approached Fletching (the proper TS class for this) .. the combo of Tip / Fletch / Shaft and Nock would give you your arrow of choice.   </p><p>So in EQ2 I guess we only have 1 type of shaft, fletch & nock but we do have muliple choices of Tips.   </p><p>.... </p><p>And, I am so smirking in RL everytime I type the word shaft .. </p>

[Lasai]

Of far greater concern to me is whether t8 arrows will indeed be t8, or if they will continue to ignore the issue of player crafted arrows being three levels UNDER tier.

[EQ2Magroo]

<cite>Lasai wrote:</cite><blockquote>Of far greater concern to me is whether t8 arrows will indeed be t8, or if they will continue to ignore the issue of player crafted arrows being three levels UNDER tier.</blockquote>Agree 100%I mentioned it on another thread somewhere, but why can't we have arrows work in a similar way to player made armor/weapons/poisons etc ?Player made ammo should be flagged as Mastercrafted and be level x2 for that tier i.e. tier 4 ammo would be 32, tier 7 ammo would be level 62 etc.The inferior vendor made ammo would be Treasured and at x0 of the tier i.e. tier 4 at 30, tier 7 at 60 etc.There's then the whole seperate issue of bow damage scaling whereby a level 70 bow is significantly nerfed as it's currently having to use level 57 ammo. I believe this restriction should be lifted slightly so that you can use ammo 8 levels below your bow with no penalty. In other words, a tier 7 bow at level 70 could use the new tier 7 player made ammo (62) without penalty. If you tried to use tier 7 vendor ammo (60) you would have a slight penalty if your bow was 70, although a level 68 bow would not suffer (except for the fact that vendor ammo would be inferior anyway). Try and use a previous tier ammo to save money, and your DPS would really suffer (this is a good thing !)Although given the current apparent attitude from community and devs towards Rangers, I'd expect all these requests to just be ignored. Actually, I'm not being very fair am I ? What  they'll probably just nerf all arrows back to level 1 instead....<img src="/eq2/images/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" />

[Webin]

Please don't hijack my tongue-in-cheek thread.  We have plenty of posts already about that issue.  This thread is meant to deal entirely with the cosmetic issue of wooden arrows being described as being made of metal <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Calthine]

<cite>Webin@Befallen wrote:</cite><blockquote>Please don't hijack my tongue-in-cheek thread.  We have plenty of posts already about that issue.  This thread is meant to deal entirely with the cosmetic issue of wooden arrows being described as being made of metal <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY<img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />" /></blockquote>I think it's a non-issue.  If we're going for esthetics, the primary component is the metal.  I'd think the arrowhead makeup is a perfectly good thing to name the arrow after.  And Sandalwood Arrow sounds... wimpy to me.  Like something you'd give to your kid to play cowboys and indians with.