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Slow arrows, most under rated item for rangers. I buy every single cursed fire arrow/head too. Source orbs are finite. Yes even buying them it's hard to make enough gold to shoot those a lot. Granted I wasted about 100k on skills I never use lol. More than that! Like 400k(?) I dunno.
Charmed arrows in the first act, TONS of honey. Or act 2 my bad.

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Regarding damage calculation of elemental arrows. As of version 3.6.117.3735. I just made some tests using the very wonderful mods on the Nexus: 'Training Dummies' by LaughingLeader and 'Cheat Commander' by Muffiny. Here are my results:

-Firing water arrows at the dummy with 0 and 10 hydrosophy shows no difference in the performed damage, except for the little bonus coming from the 'wet' status, result of firing multiple arrows in quick succession.
-On the other hand, the tooltip says that the water arrow should hit for 18-20 with 0 hydrosophy, and 27-29 with 10 hydrosophy. But with 0 or 10, it hits for 18-20 all the same. Hence, the tooltip wrongly calculates the +50% damage from hydrosophy that is not applied.
-Most arrows, except for slowdown arrows, indeed deal 70% of the base damage shown in your character sheet.
-Keeping hydrosophy to 0, but putting warfare to 10 has for consequence to see the expected increase in damage, and water arrows now deal around 30 damage. In this case, the tooltip displays the mostly correct numbers.
-With hydrosophy to 10, and warfare to 10, the damage is the same as above (around 30), but the tooltip is wrong, as it wrongly calculates a +100% increase in damage (47-49), when only the warfare's 50% is accounted for.
-Hence, the tooltips become wrong when you have points in elemental abilities relevant for a given elemental arrow. Because it starts to add calculations of things that are not applied. If you have points in elemental abilities, just lower the tooltip numbers by 10% per 2 points in the ability to have a mostly accurate estimate of your actual damage.

Conclusion: what is written at the top of the page is true and remains true as of last game version (3.6.117.3735). Only warfare improves damage of elemental arrows. On the other hand, i haven't tested with elemental ranger or tested for the burning/poisoned effects, but my guess is that, in these cases, the normal rules apply. This means that while it makes it easier overall to create a physical archer, specializing it into say... pyro/geo the way you would specialize a mage is not efficient. Since putting 5 in pyro to improve elemental skills won't improve the relevant elemental arrow.

As a personal note, i regret now more than ever that DOS does not have weapon sets, as any decent CRPG have (from Fallout 1 to Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous). Because if i have to put points in warfare in order to make an archer, i would have liked the option to switch to a spear whenever enemies close in. It would be a lot of fun to me. Because warfare skills are mostly useless with a bow. But as it is, the cost in AP of unequipping the bow and equiping the spear is much too high to be practical (i tested it).

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Regarding damage calculation of elemental arrows. As of version 3.6.117.3735. I just made some tests using the very wonderful mods on the Nexus: 'Training Dummies' by LaughingLeader and 'Cheat Commander' by Muffiny. Here are my results:

-Firing water arrows at the dummy with 0 and 10 hydrosophy shows no difference in the performed damage, except for the little bonus coming from the 'wet' status, result of firing multiple arrows in quick succession.
-On the other hand, the tooltip says that the water arrow should hit for 18-20 with 0 hydrosophy, and 27-29 with 10 hydrosophy. But with 0 or 10, it hits for 18-20 all the same. Hence, the tooltip wrongly calculates the +50% damage from hydrosophy that is not applied.
-Most arrows, except for slowdown arrows, indeed deal 70% of the base damage shown in your character sheet.
-Keeping hydrosophy to 0, but putting warfare to 10 has for consequence to see the expected increase in damage, and water arrows now deal around 30 damage. In this case, the tooltip displays the mostly correct numbers.
-With hydrosophy to 10, and warfare to 10, the damage is the same as above (around 30), but the tooltip is wrong, as it wrongly calculates a +100% increase in damage (47-49), when only the warfare's 50% is accounted for.
-Hence, the tooltips become wrong when you have points in elemental abilities relevant for a given elemental arrow. Because it starts to add calculations of things that are not applied. If you have points in elemental abilities, just lower the tooltip numbers by 10% per 2 points in the ability to have a mostly accurate estimate of your actual damage.

Conclusion: what is written at the top of the page is true and remains true as of last game version (3.6.117.3735). Only warfare improves damage of elemental arrows. On the other hand, i haven't tested with elemental ranger or tested for the burning/poisoned effects, but my guess is that, in these cases, the normal rules apply. This means that while it makes it easier overall to create a physical archer, specializing it into say... pyro/geo the way you would specialize a mage is not efficient. Since putting 5 in pyro to improve elemental skills won't improve the relevant elemental arrow.

As a personal note, i regret now more than ever that DOS does not have weapon sets, as any decent CRPG have (from Fallout 1 to Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous). Because if i have to put points in warfare in order to make an archer, i would have liked the option to switch to a spear whenever enemies close in. It would be a lot of fun to me. Because warfare skills are mostly useless with a bow. But as it is, the cost in AP of unequipping the bow and equiping the spear is much too high to be practical (i tested it).

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Source Orbs are mighty expensive and also very rare, why are they the only way to craft cursed or blessed arrows? >:(

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Fire Arrow and any oil source also makes an eplosive arrow

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I'm not sure if it's just the Definitive edition, but combining special arrows with ingredients to get better special arrows doesn't work. Example: Combining a Fire arrow with water does not yield a Steamcloud arrow, nor does combining a Shock arrow with water yield a Stormcloud arrow.

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Is the School Skill (aero, geo, hydro, pyro, warfare) bonus coming from the crafter or the shooter ?

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is it just me or are charming arrows crazy busted? it's so easy to get dozens of them in act 2

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Shocking Arrow + water source = static cloud arrow

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firearrow + cirsed oil barrel = game crash on ps4 lol

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any cutting tool + bone = invalid combination

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oil source + arrowhead = fire arrow is wrong! it produces a slowdown arrow

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I think what it could be is just the recipes with Arrowhead and show Arrowhead plus arrow shaft equals that type of arrow and stuff like that including arrow plus that thing equals that type of arrow Anyone else agree with me? This wiki would be a lot easier to find stuff then

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so there is no way to make static cloud arrowhead?

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Oil/water/poison barrels can be used as a unlimited ingredient to make special arrows. The same works for honeycombs.

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I imagine the cursed arrow is either crafted with an arrowhead of some kind and a source orb, as that is how you make cursed grenades that or its an unique item you can only find not craft

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Air essence + arrowhead = Shocking Arrowhead not static cloud

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Tooth + Sharp Weapon = Shocking Arrowhead

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When crafting arrowheads, the yield is 3 per sharp rock/piece of metal

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So the only way to make fire arrows is with fire essences. Wish they let me use a campfire or something else.

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How in the holy blue ***** do you make Smoke Cloud Arrow heads?

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cursed fire arrow is necro fire arrow.

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knife + sharp metal = arrowhead(few)
knife + twig = shaft(4 or so)

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Knife (any) + Sharp Stone (2) = Arrowhead (3), knife persists.

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How do you make and arrow shaft?

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