Arrow supply question

I was thinking of trying out a bow using character, but I'm concerned on getting arrows.

Can I make them or do I have to do the tedious tactic of resting for 24 hours at a store that carries them? What's the best way to get arrows?

 

So true, it would be lovely to use a slow and heavy hitting bow.

Whenever I attempt to build an archer character it evolves into a melee/caster hybrid because of the poor execution of bows.

 

Didn't rroyo add arrow making to the AWIP?
Or was that just gun powder?

 

You can find a lot of free arrows in the BMC and other dungeon-type places. You also get them sometimes in chests.

Personally, I dig the ridiculous speed of Ellumyn's Bow. It's nice being able to shoot more than two or three times a round in turn-based combat.

But yeah... It would be nice to have more options along the lines of the Pyrotechnic Bow. For the most part, magical bows suck when compared to the serrated chakram. The Compound Bow does a fair amount of damage sometimes, but it's a little too slow to be satisfying.

 

Yep. Any old staff plus metal shavings.

 

Yea!
Memory is vindicated.
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Now, where the hell did I park.

 

the problem for a starting character is that not only that you run out of arrows fast (they reappear almost every day in some store), but that they're expensive enough to make you go broke at the start if you don't abuse some money glitch.

I think guns are balanced in the sense that you only need raise Perception, which makes quite the difference for called shots at range.

edit: also, for damage, the Compound Bow is pretty damned sweet at the start (if you're not a full blown mage). IIRC it does damage equal to an axe