Wickedcheese wrote:
so if you use 4 ingredient regional food with 100 quality to get up to 3x skill rate and make about ~12 archery targets and put them close by so you can hit something from being far away enough to get the good shot bonus everytime AND give in to the P2W system for the powerhour you can gain xp almost as fast as any melee weapon at 1x multiplier with no PH? oh and ofcourse you cant macro for long because after 50 shots you have to replace the sling?
the only advantage is you can make your own sling and ammo for it without needing a carpenter to make a training weapon
regardless of multipliers the point is after level 30 sling goes up around 1/3-1/5th the rate of other comparable weapons/skills.
First you dont need regional food for 4 ingredient food.
Second... Ranged combat is one of the most powerful combat "types" in game. With a simple arbalest I can hit in the 70s at render range... YES that far. A group of 5 archers can devastate the same number of melee fighters when they have range.
The only thing archers fear, is close quarters fights, and cavalry.