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About weapon proficiencies

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Does bow (or any two-handed ranged weapon for that matter) benefit from assigning stars in "Two Handed Weapon Style"?
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quite good question!!

I always wondered if it does.
Anyone of the real cracks should answer this question.
I'm really interested in it. I think it should give you a bonus anyway!

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@ pebz: Maybe you will happen to read this. What about the long bow you wanted to make... ? PLEASE!!! :(
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No, sorry but it doesn't, I think it's to stop you geting uber-atacks per round.
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Re: quite good question!!
Originally posted by mabrook
@ pebz: Maybe you will happen to read this. What about the long bow you wanted to make... ? PLEASE!!! :(
Ahhh yes... i forgot about it :(

Well i did make a few suggestions, but noone said which one they wanted. The suggestions were:

Long bow of Speed

- Once per day for 2 rounds: raise number of attacks to 9
- 1 extra attack per round
- Unlimited +3 arrows (hits as +3)
- Speed factor 1

Burning Long bow

- Cast Fireshield (Red) as per the spell (once per day)
- Unlimited Magic fire arrows (1-8 damage, hits as +4)
- Speed factor 4

Long bow of Gesen (as suggested by kopywrite)
- Same as the short bow, but higher damage, slower fire rate
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Nope, sorry, bows and crossbows don't benefit from the Two-handed Weapon style.
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Originally posted by Moleman
Does bow (or any two-handed ranged weapon for that matter) benefit from assigning stars in "Two Handed Weapon Style"?
Two Handed Weapon Style only applies to melee weapons.

1 star (*) gives +1 bonus damage and -2 to speed factor.
2 stars (**) gives a further -2 to speed factor (total of -4) and double chance to score criticals (19-20 instead of only 20)
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Ah, craps, then it was useless to assign Nalia star in that slot. Damn. Have to reload earlier save...

But hey, thanks for so prompt answers.
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...and the "earlier save" was after levelling up Nalia. Typical. What the he1l I'll use Shadowkeeper :(
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Should I download a later version of SK if I want to change the HLA that I currently have in a SOA game?
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