Ornate Vile Longbow: WTF?!

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  1. Barugon

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    So, I purchased the Ornate Vile Longbow from the crown store thinking that it would go really well with the Obsidian Order Cloth Armor. Then, I went to replenish my trollnails but it took a lot longer to kill the first troll. When I moused over the longbow, I saw this:

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    What is so special about this bow that it warrants less than half the damage of other longbows?
     
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    What it lacks in damage it makes up for with it's lack of strength bonus?

    I hope someone can answer your question...
     
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    They want you to salvage it :p
     
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    Use the Eternal pattern on your best bow - the result will be the "look" of the original plus all the attributes of the bow you use it on.
     
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    Store bought Items are just PRETTY!!!

    They don't carry and real stats.

     
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    What you got there is a skin, they don’t sell power in the store.

    Salvage that and stick it to what ever op bow you have and pew pew MDK!

    MDK - murder death kill
     
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    Guys, I know how the pattern system works. That's not what I bought this item for.
     
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    I'm pretty sure @Barugon is aware they don't sell "good" items in the store. But they aren't usually deliberately bad either.
     
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    You know I haven't actually looked in a long time now.. what are the stats on a regular ol' longbow?

    I'm a little bewildered though.. if the bow wasn't bought for the looks.. what was it bought for? I'm not sure I'm understanding the reluctance in using it for the pattern?
     
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    PvP - since it can't be looted as is ??
     
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    Or AFKing — while eternal items don’t break...

    ;)
     
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    Grinding, because it's indestructible.

    [edit] Actually, just everything.
     
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    The stuff in the store has ALWAYS been advertised as "not competing" to in-game crafted weapons/armor . ;)

    That's the whole premise of Shroud of the Avatar as being NOT PTW . :cool:

    It's the way weapons/armor in the store have always acted (as in not competing with crafted enhancements). :)
     
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    Are you wearing the "Obsidian Order Cloth Armor" as it came "off the rack" or have you used the Eternal Pattern for that set over good armor ?

    You have to settle between being "ordinary" or "well beyond ordinary" when it comes to actually going in to battle.

    We just can't have it both ways: Indestructable AND BeyondOrdinary .

    THAT would be
    PTW.

    I'm sure once you've thought it over - you'll hopefully agree. ;)
     
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    Some of you seem to think that I'm confused about how gear in this game works. Let me assure you that I am not. All crown store gear of the same type is suppose to have the same stats. No, there's nothing special about it other than it's ultimately indestructible.

    Let me repeat that all long bows in the crown store are supposed to have a base damage of 7 - 21 but this bow is obviously incorrect.
     
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    Well…maybe not. It is just a guess but if they recognized that addon store items are still too good they might have changed the values…I mean as you above-said you wanted to use the bow to grind because of the indestructibility and if this is not intended lowering the damage sounds a reasonable way to stop this "unwanted" usage.
     
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    Crown store bows are nowhere near "too good". Anyway, I made a bug report.
     
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    Dragon one has the same issue
     
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    Then, alas, you bought it for the wrong thing. Store bought items are for decoration or pattern extraction. They dont have fantastic stats to avoid a combat-pay-to-win issue.
     
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