Archer With Shoddy Bow Damage

@DarkStarr
With archer skeletons and humans now using shoddy short bows with 2-7 damage, shouldn't their damage they do to us reflect that damage they are doing with the bow? I don't mind that they have a crappy bow for loot, what bugs me is the damage they can still do with those crappy bows.

 

Give them shoddy long bows

 

Maybe the skeletons have an insande Dex stat?? *Chance to murder with shoddy +95%*

 

Actually, the animations show all of them still wielding long bows. It's only the loot that becomes shoddy

This is probably a temporary quick measure to protect the game economy, as even the shoddiest grade C skellies used to wield high end (pricey) long bows.
Now they turned it completely around - even the relatively elite forces seem to rely on shoddy gear

 

When those mobs die they quickly "wreck" the bow making it shoddy...

 

Kinda like a last-ditch FU before you take his stuff

 

I think the damage that those mobs do is still based on longbow and not the short bow you get as loot.

[edit] I think what they should do is adjust the damage of short bows to 5-15 and have those mobs actually use the item that they drop.

 

Yep, if the dev's nerf their loot (Longbow to Shoddy shortbow) then they should also have nerfed damage. And nerfed xp accordingly.

 

Hardened Skeletal Archers drop Shoddy Longbows worth 75g
Large Skeletal Archers drop Shoddy Shortbows worth 50g
Hardened Skeletal Footmen drop Two Handed Longwords worth 175g
Large Skeletal Footmen drop Rusty Two Handed Longswords worth 75g
Doesn't seem right that the melee drops are worth alot more than ranged which is doing more damage...
(Per drops in Spectral Mines)

 

If you look closer it's all just weight based. Except elven bows which win the gold to weight race.