Archer Weapon for Dragons

[declo]

What is considered the best archer weapon for Dragons?

Assuming Dragon slayer of course.  100% cold?

[The Ghost]

I like Composite for IA and mortel.   Anything that with deal lot damage and fast.

[Wiper]

I second the composite bow. Dragon slayer with DI 50 SSI 50 Mana Leech 34 Stam leech 45

[Ultimafreak77]

What is considered the best archer weapon for Dragons?

Assuming Dragon slayer of course.  100% cold?

I agree that the Composite Bow is the archery weapon of choice mainly for its primary move: Armor Ignore.
Composite Bow:http://www.uoguide.com/Archery

Your next decision will be how do you want to maximize your damage output: Swing Speed Increase or Elemental Damage?

MAX SWING SPEED INCREASE:
Most people try to achieve the maximum Swing Speed Increase (SSI) of 1.25 seconds/swing

Achieving max SSI for a Composite Bow is very expensive because it has a slow 4s Weapon Speed. This requires your suit to have something like 210 stamina and 55% SSI for max Swing Speed Increase.
Swing Speed Calculator:http://www.uoguide.com/Swing_Speed_Increase

To achieve this high amount of Swing Speed Increase  you will want to start with an Ash Runic and reforge Composite Bows with Animated / of Haste until you get a clean 40% SSI bow.
Re-Forging:http://www.uoguide.com/Runic_Re-Forging

Your bow will probably looking something like the one below. You will have to adjust your Damage Increase with imbuing to get everything to fit on the bow. Don't forget to powder your bow to 255/255 before you imbue it. Once you are finished imbuing you would enhance the bow with Ash wood using a Forged metal tool to achieve 50% SSI on your bow.
Imbuing Calculator:http://www.knuckleheads.dk/tools/imbuing?itemtype=rweapon

1. Swing Speed Increase
2. Damage Increase
3. Dragon Slayer
4. Hit Mana Leech
5. Hit Stamina Leech / Hit Lower Defense / Balanced

100% ELEMENTAL DAMAGE:
A bow with 100% elemental damage in the appropriate element (COLD for dragons) will hit for the highest possible damage when don't have mana to use Armor Ignore.

To achieve this 100% elemental cold damage you will want to start with an Ash Runic and reforge Composite Bows with Exquisite / of Quality until you get a clean 100% elemental cold damage bow.

Taking this path would only allow you to imbue the bow with 30% SSI and enhance it to 40% which means the rest of your suit would need higher amounts of SSI to provide the max Swing Speed Increase.

Hopefully this was helpful, let me know if you have any more questions?

V/R
Dragonborn

[dxrom]

Pretty sure Yumi double shot beats out Composite AI. Or atleast it used to, when I played an Archer tact mage I carried a Yumi to kill people's dragons in about 3-5 shots.