Originally posted by jjones_50:

I've only ever used wood arrows except for bosses. lol

I might start using some needle arrows for berserkers to save time since I got like 400 needles. What else besides bosses and berserkers really needs more than wood arrows?

I mean, the damage between Wood and, say, Ironhead Arrows is rather steep.. but realistically, nothing outside of bosses really warrants any current-tier arrows. It's why I've been using the mass amount I gathered/crafted for the Black Forest; they work pretty well in the Swamp, provided you get the drop on the enemy.

I guess if you're unlucky and Snipe a Draugr Elite from afar and it happens to be 2-star, well.. ready your shield or dig a hole and hope it doesn't fall in with you, heh.

Originally posted by blankitosonic:

Originally posted by Requimatic:

True, but considering Fire Arrows are better for nearly everything up to this point, I've been using them. No need to clutter storage/inventory with something I won't use. Fire Arrows are easier to craft anyway, as Flint is annoying to amass.




Normally I do, but when making Iron runs without a cart, you're pretty limited on space; even with the belt. I can carry ~35-40 pieces at a time with all essential items and literally run them back to a chest not far from my base.

Sadly, there are numerous streams/creeks I have to cross to get back to my base that I can't reliably build a road/bridge for; so doing it this way, using Eikthyr, is faster for me.

Nope , fire arrows only works well finishing black forest ( but trolls , for them are far better flinthead than fire ) , everything in swamps resist fire so nope , and in the time you are in the mountain you can craft obsidian or frost arrows

Fire are perfectly fine for basically everything except maybe Bonemass. I mean, they aren't going to deal much damage to a starred Draugr Elite, but are fully capable of one-shotting everything else. And if it doesn't, the Fire ticks will finish them off.

That's been my experience so far, anyway.. and I only just crafted the Huntsman Bow and upgraded it; I'd been using Finewood until just a bit ago. If I run up on anything starred in the Swamps, I simply melee them and they die readily enough. Bow is basically for annoying things like Wraiths or Draugr I see before they see me.

As far as being "better", they're far better to use than wasting Iron (or Bronze) on arrows.. unless you've already crafted everything else, or have a massive stockpile of them from Crypt/Swamp chests anyway. I would actually go on a limb and say not to craft a set of Bronze Armor, but instead use that Bronze on Arrows instead.. probably a better use.

I still have a pretty large stockpile of Fire Arrows, so I've been using them to great success; but I don't expect them to do too well outside of the Swamp. I'll probably stay a tier behind and switch to Ironheads once I'm done with Bonemass, in an effort to save Silver/Obsidian for other stuff the way I've done with Iron.