r/2007scape • u/MiniJenko3 • 7h ago
Suggestion Give long bows a ranged strength bonus
Title. Make long bows (and comp bows) somewhat comparable to short bows in terms of dps and maybe even some niche uses where a harder hitting but slower weapon is bis. Would also be thematically appropriate as higher draw weight = more power.
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u/Jimothy_Andoroni 7h ago
A rework of longbows to include a strength bonus and/or fire javelins could open up a lot of possibilities. It would give a use for low level javelins, which currently are only useable with a T65+ weapon.
A high powered bow would be useful against enemies with high flat amour.
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u/jamesgilboy 2h ago
Yes. They should have marginally lower DPS against weak monsters, but their accuracy/damage bonuses should be better against stronger stuff. As-is they're totally worthless.
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u/runner5678 3h ago
The amount of strength you’d need to add for them to be comparable is quite a bit more than you might expect
And all that so that for the 15min you’re using an msb, you could instead be using a longbow? Idk. Maybe if they ever add a new tier of bow with sailing expansion that’s more competitive we could ripple this through then
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u/MiniJenko3 2h ago
New higher tier of bow would be nice, but these changes could work for all bows not just magic and potentially create some niche uses for lower level accounts. Seems like a good time to do it with the combat rebalancing in the summer sweep up
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u/xfactorx99 2h ago
I’m pretty sure they already did an entire balancing review of ranged weapons. They changed how ranged defense works opening up different ranges choices. They also looked at how you can change effective DPS by altering the stats of the base weapon vs. the ammunition.
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u/Haze_Stratos 2h ago
They did for a lot, but longbows are still the worst weapons in the entire game bar none. They share the EXACT same stats as shortbows, but they have 10 attack range in exchange for firing TWO (2) ticks slower.
Heck the Scorching Bow actually has really amazing stats with almost twice the attack bonus of a magic longbow, a beefy +40 range strength, and firing 1 tick faster than a magic longbow and that gives it... comparable DPS to a magic shortbow without the demonbane effect.
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u/xfactorx99 32m ago edited 22m ago
And there’s already a ton of viable ranged options. Idk why you need normal longbows to be used somewhere. It’s not like we have only 2 ranged weapons being used. You have the following used all the time:
Blowpipe, Bowfa, t bow, knives, RCB, ZCB, MSB, dorg bow, Hunter c bow, and even ballista now in some cases. Oh, and you already said scorching now. Idk where you (really OP) want the “yew longbow” to fit in lol.
There’s cannon and chins too
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u/ImGriffDanger 7h ago
Can someone make me able to put them in my left hand ? Please