How can I make a bow like this?

[SunTigress]

I have been playing around with woods and which wood to use and which bow to make and so on, and I stumbled upon this for sale on Atlantic.
 

Crossbow 
 Exceptional
Weight: 5 Stones
Velocity 32%
Balanced
Hit Stamina Leech 30%
Swing Speed Increase 40%
Damage Increase 40%
Lower Requirements 20%
Physical Damage 100%
Weapon Damage 18 - 22
Weapon Speed 4.5s
Range 8
Strength Requirement 28
Two-Handed Weapon
Skill Required: Archery
Durability 25 / 220

How can I make something like this?

[Cerveza]

Ash wood with a Heartwood kit.

Not sure the max speed with Yew kits, you'd have to look that up.

Ash adds +10 SSI and Lower Req 20%.

To be perfectly honest, I'll sometimes dump those LOL.

[SunTigress]

what do you consider an outstanding PvM bow?

[Cerveza]

Personally? For PvM I prefer a regular bow or a yumi, for the range mostly.

Swing Speed 30+
Hit Lower Defense 30+
Damage Increase 40+ (exceptional will be 40 with 100 arms lore)

I like to have Mana Leech so I can spam Lightning Strike, but Stamina Leech is nice. Life Leech shouldn't be needed, I don't plan on getting hit much.

Hit Lightning is sweet, Fireball is nice. Velocity isn't all that.

I don't like area effect stuff... It draws unwanted attention.

Balanced is more a PvP thing. If your doing a hit/run PvM archer you don't need pots.

[SunTigress]

Personally? For PvM I prefer a regular bow or a yumi, for the range mostly.

Swing Speed 30+
Hit Lower Defense 30+
Damage Increase 40+ (exceptional will be 40 with 100 arms lore)

I like to have Mana Leech so I can spam Lightning Strike, but Stamina Leech is nice. Life Leech shouldn't be needed, I don't plan on getting hit much.

Hit Lightning is sweet, Fireball is nice. Velocity isn't all that.

I don't like area effect stuff... It draws unwanted attention.

Balanced is more a PvP thing. If your doing a hit/run PvM archer you don't need pots.

still using ash and a heartwood runic?

[Cerveza]

Not sure if a Yew will get you 30 SSI

Ash is 10 SSI guaranteed... for a possibility of 40SSI

[SunTigress]

cool. thanks Cerv!

[Blizer]

<3

[Cerveza]

Oh showing off eh? I'll have to post up my composite... the one with Velocity AND Lightning AND Balanced AND 30 SSI

[Scrripty]

Ash wood with a Heartwood kit.

Not sure the max speed with Yew kits, you'd have to look that up.

Ash adds +10 SSI and Lower Req 20%.

To be perfectly honest, I'll sometimes dump those LOL.

ALSO:  USE REGULAR WOOD WITH THE KIT.  So that you can ENHANCE it after creation.

[templarpo]

<3

SSI10 ...rubbish

[Paulonius]

Twinkle McNugget makes a good point.  With metal items you fail most of the time when you try to enhance, but with wood this is not so much the case.  I find that I can get better items working with regular wood and picking and choosing which to enhance afterward -- plus you can save more for unwinding later if you make them with regular wood.

[SunTigress]

ok, now i'm really confused.

So, I make a bow with regular wood and a HW kit, then i enhance it with ash and a regular kit?

[manwinc]

PVM bow, High Swing Speed, High Damage, Hit mana, Hit Lower D, Hit Stamina, Hit Spell.


Balanced is always nice, means you can chug pots easier. Higher Dex = Faster Swing, HIgher STr = More Damage, Refresh pots = You swing more.

[Cerveza]

ALSO:  USE REGULAR WOOD WITH THE KIT.  So that you can ENHANCE it after creation.

Ok, I'm going to question this thinking now.

If I'm making regular bows I have 100% chance of making exceptional items. Lets say I'm using a Heartwood kit, so intensities can be 100%.

Now I make this AWESOME bow with 50% Lightning, 50% Velocity, 50% Lower Defense, Balanced and 30% Swing Speed.

If I made it with ash wood, it would be at 40% SSI.

If I made it with regular wood and enhanced it, one of two outcomes.

1 - It has 40% SSI, just like if I had made it originally out of Ash.
2 - It's destroyed.

So what did making it out of regular wood accomplish for me? The way I see it, only a chance to destroy the bow.

I'd like to know the reasoning behind making a bow out of regular wood, then chancing loosing it while enhancing....