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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 7538865" data-attributes="member: 6801845">The other problem is the "armor always stops arrows" argument.  Yes, well made, expensive armor will stop most arrows.  But even cheap, crappy armor will stop an arrow fired from a weak bow. It takes very expensive (and rare) armor to stop an arrow from a heavy pull longbow.  While estimates for pull weight for historical longbows vary, it's between 150-200 pounds where pull weight is loosely the amount of weight you can lift with 1 arm as measured at maximum draw. In addition, other than the eye/throat a lightweight arrow with minimal velocity simply isn't going to do that much damage even if it isn't stopped by armor.  Or heavy clothing.Not to mention that arrows shot with a real longbow is going to have greater range, less arc and far more accuracy.  It's been a while since I did archery, but the difference in my accuracy between a kiddie bow and a real composite reasonably heavy draw bow was dramatic.In the interest of not totally nerfing dex builds, maybe a  short bow should be versatile while a longbow should be strength based (or some combo).Or just ignore it because why should bows be realistic in a game.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>