War Bow of Rallos Zek  

 

Slight correction... Warbow of Rallos Zek has a better ratio than the primal... not by much, but it IS a little better.. But to really shine, you need one of the player crafted bows from the elemental planes... Far superior to either bow.

I know it's an old post, but a few bows to name out: Stonewood Compound Bow, Featherwood Compound Bow, nightmarewood Compound Bow, and alot of other <type>wood Compound Bows. all PoP exp bows

Obviously two rangers......

Warriors plink quite a few arrows on the pull, i probably average 6-10 depending on line of sight to the pulled mob, and using Nightmarewood COmpound atm, with max dex about 50% of the time i get a nice little AC buff / mob AC debuff out of it. The "aggro" they're talking about is landing a DoT on the mob during the pull, which is extremely nice hate (ask any SK who uses them religiously, or any caster who has to wait a bit before they use their's). With elemental bows out now, and (at least on my server, MT) you can generally find a couple Stonewood's and Featherwoods for sale in the bazaar, I'd say this would benefit a guild who's farming AoW best in the hands of a warrior due to the raw HP. Remember, once sta is maxed (which any warrior worth his salt will have it maxed with buffs at the VERY least) raw HP is all a warrior truly cares about, and being able to land a nice aggro dot on the pull is an incredibly nice bonus.

Point is, as a warrior i'd gladly dump 50+ hours of raiding's worth of Points on ANY item that would put +100 HP in my ranged slot and switch it out with my bow after the pull, this item would save me ALOT of hastle in my inventory screen, and i'm almost certain the rangers in my guild would be happier saving those points for Planar / Elemental bows or bow components.

Just my opinion though, to each his own.



Edit: I just realised the previous poster put up their posts before Elemental / Planar bows came out. Well, everything i said is still true, but they probably have the same opinion as i do now. lol.

Edited, Mon Oct 13 13:03:12 2003

We have several rangers that have gotten this bow, and banked it for a Primal bow. I was using a Priceless Velium bow untill I got this one. Typically Warriors will get this bow for the simple fact that they make the best use of the 100hp on it, and Rangers will have or get better, ie Primal. I'm not saying that Rangers shouldn't get it, hey man if you really want one knock yourself out, but when you're in ST and a Primal bow drops, don't cry if you're passed over because you've already got an "Uber" bow. Trust me, guilds doing AoW and getting these bows are on DKP systems or have some other form of point system in place. It's gonna go to whoever can make the most use out of it that's in attendance. IE Warriors first, then if they already have, or have better, it will happilly be awarded to any of the Rangers in attendance. Or, if you're on a purely DKP system, if you have the most points you get it.

There are a few bows that are good. Persoanlly I would rather have the Avatar proc then Torment. Primal bow will do more damage then this bow will. But you will be fortunate to have either.

I always love these "this item sucks" threads. It sucks because you will most likely never see one. When you get to the point where it is posible you will get one then you will be happy just to get a end game bow reguardless of wich one is SLIGHTLY better then the others.

It is all about DPS (Damage Per Second). Other then that, who gives a rats **** about the stats. The only class that really uses a bow in a raid (which if you have one of these you most likely do) is a Ranger. As stated before, Rangers are DPS gods with a bow, alt exp skills, and Trueshot Disc. Although you might see a warior with one of these, most likely the Rangers all have one or better. The reason is that if you are smart enough to conquor these mobs you are most likely smart enough to give items to where they are best used and not just to who wants it.

So get of the boards and go level and learn. Take down NToV/Sleeper/etc. type mobs and then come back with your opinions. Then they might mean something :-)

Uhmm I have to break this to ya.
Within the last two months AoW have been downed 7 times on AB.
Mortalis killed him 5 times till now and Darkwind twice as I recall.
(Talk about pharmage).
The 5 times he has gone down for us I think he has dropped 4 bows (not sure if it only is 3 though)and for Darkwind he dropped 2 bows. Untill yesterday all the bows dropped for Mortalis had gone to a warrior. Yesterday I got the bow.
AoW only has like 6 or 7 items (monk legs, rog/bard barb mask, war helmut, awesome all/all ring, Blade of Carnage, this bow - I might have missed some drops out but this is just from the top of my head) on his loot table and drops 3 to 4 each time so getting a bow when killing him is not all that rare. Besides... if you can kill him once you have the strat down and can very well pharm him.
As info on the bow I must admit I am still a novice with it, but lemme put matters into perspective. A ranger with Archery Mastery 3 and Endless Quiver with dmg 14 arrows can do over 1700 dmg in ONE shot with Trueshot disc and primal 33/35 bow if he crits. Now imagine this baby! We are talking about shots for over 2K if lucky.
Granted PoA bow does 2 pts more dmg and has higher delay so will most likely be the bow to choose if ya want to show off a lill. :-)
And as a side note... I actually have found the PoA bow alot harder to achieve. I have looked for the drops for that quest on numerous trips to PoA and only gotten two and that is within about a year. So as it turns out... I couldnt really get the bow I was aiming for, so I had to "settle" for this baby :-)

Trackfinder Swifteblade, in the service of Mortalis on Antonius Bayle.