Range Slot...

[Keowrath]

Hi, I play a 64 Zerker in a very small guild and mainly duo or group with a couple friends. I don't raid (3 years of constant raiding on EQ1 and I'm kinda burned) Question  is this. Since the last Update where pulling "has" to be done by body pulls. Is it even worth carrying a bow or ranged weapon anymore? What other options are viable for someone such as myself for this slot? Thanks. <div></div>

[Storm_Runner]

I still carry a bow.  I even use it sometimes :smileytongue: .  If nothing else it still gives you some extra stats.

[Aonach]

a good bow, with T6 arrows and double attack can do a fair bit of dmg you know.

[fbi]

I'm almost in the same situation as you, i.e. I primarily duo with my SO, only difference is our guild is down to two active members <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />I still carry a pre-nerf Ironwood bow, as the stats are nice. And there are situations where you can still use your bow for pulling (I've even used it when mentoring my SO's warlock: Against some nameds she'll root it and I'll back up and get off a shot. The even con nameds mentoring at 35 with no healer can be tough fights!) There's a KoS quest that gives a decent bow reward as well (was an orange quest for us @62, but we still managed to complete them.)<div></div>

[Keowrath]

Hi, thanks for the replys. What I'm asking though is if there is anything else we can equip in this slot that would benefit us as a Zerker. Right now I do still use my bow but extremely rarely. It's also a T6 item and I'm about to grey my bow out so I'm just wondering on suggestions of other items we might be able to use. <div></div>

[Kemwen]

Don't have to body pull anymore...just have to be careful.<div></div>

[Benaire]

I hear they are removing double attack on bows now. I havent linked it but one of the Devs mentioned that they will be removing it for ranged by LU27 on the AA section of this forum.

[Huna]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Benaire wrote:<BR>I hear they are removing double attack on bows now. I havent linked it but one of the Devs mentioned that they will be removing it for ranged by LU27 on the AA section of this forum.<BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Yeah, I read that also, sucks for us.  It's not like our dps on autoattack ranged was overpowering, but I guess other classes that have double attack, and haste, and dps mods were overpowering.

[Kemwen]

While that would save me a ton on arrows, if this is the case, I'm not a happy rat.<div></div>