QoL / Archery / switch to melee weapon

[Sheffie 1,120]

Bows are difficult to improve, and at the same time their quality is super important to effectiveness. This means that getting attacked with a bow equipped is a really painful and expensive experience. Especially if, like many players, you bought a bow rather than grinding out the skill to make it yourself.

 

I'd like the equipment system to be capable of switching from a bow to a melee weapon

• if / when the player is too close to their target to fire the bow (more realistically this means, if the target is running towards the player and getting close)
• if the player engages in melee combat with any enemy

 

I realize that this is not easy to implement, but it would be well worth while.

 

The usual disclaimers apply, if it can't be done because PvP, don't change PvP.

[Lethyria 161]

Wouldn't the easier solution be to just make it so you don't have to equip the bow to shoot which already feels clunky, and perhaps make it so you cannot parry while shooting?

[Finnn 3,303]

and a keybind..

[Sinnjinn 508]

The main problem with this idea, is you're talking exclusively about a long bow.  A short bow can still be fired while you're in melee range.  And having it automatically switch doesn't feel very 'Wurmish'.  I agree with Lethyria that not requiring the bow to be equipped would feel much less clunky....OR give us 'equipment kits'  with a hotkey to switch between kits

[Atndy 385]

There are to many types of bow and what if you had different ones in your inventory for different reasons? Perhaps using a bow with 10k bt and switching to a new bt one for the final kill? Also how long are you in combat with a bow for it to take significant damage?  Also what if you have mobs around you but you want to shoot someone far? Making the change would mean you could block with a shield and shoot a bow at the same time.

[Oblivionnreaver 5,174]

11 hours ago, Sheffie said:

Bows are difficult to improve, and at the same time their quality is super important to effectiveness. This means that getting attacked with a bow equipped is a really painful and expensive experience

4 parries with a bow against a hell scorp did 0.01 dmg

3 parries with a bow against a boar didn't even do enough damage to show 0.1

neither of them changed ql on repairing

 

unless there's some nfi change to parry damage or you're falling asleep hunting and parrying for 8 hours straight parrying mobs or players doesn't do any reasonable damage

[Skatyna 434]

Drag bow, weapon and shield (if required) to the toolbelt and reequip yourself when needed instantly. Problem solved. Alternatively would help if there were least 2 equipment slot icons on the UI that when you press either one it automatically changes your equipment to the saved profile. Eg primary pre-set set up is chain armours + weap/shield and secondary is leathers + a bow. 

Edited March 25, 2023 by Skatyna