Some might find this interesting and mildly useful. If you use manual aim to target an enemy far outside the bow's range the arrows wont do any damage when they hit, you'll see it clearly with fire arrows. Serpent arrows and maybe poisonbone, bleed or rot arrows will still proc their status effects though, but it seems to be at a reduced rate so I don't understand the reason why or how they would proc at all. Instead of farming sheep, kill the Bell Bearing Hunter. You'll be able to buy thin bones at the Roundtable.

The true name of the quest and its rewards from the boss were then revealed in the Winter Summit 2022 a month later. I've been a bow-main since release, and I see a lot of misinformation about them; discouraging others from giving them a try. I want to set things straight. BOWS. ARE. VIABLE... kinda. They're more viable during NG+, since you'll be more established. I'll be honest, bows are no where near as powerful as melee weapons. The scaling on them is terrible and the skills for bows aren't that great either. Additionally, getting to the bosses, going through mobs, can be difficult with bow-only. However, bows can still hold their own. It just takes work.

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The above steps are all easily accomplishable within a few hours, and by the time you're done you'll feel like a god. I no-hit literally every single shardbearer effortlessly without even trying. They all die so fast it's unreal. I've never done any of them no-hit, and I wasn't intending to. It literally just... Happened... When pitched in the poll blog, the item's name was "Bloodletter bow". This was because the name of the quest and its rewards were polled by the development team as a "Mysterious Quest", where they wished to keep the Zarosian nature of the rewards a secret. This continues with damage scaling for the physical portion of all arrows. (They get increased scaling with physical stats). With bows, the way to make it look cool and grown-up is to give the hair some polish and shine," says A-list hairstylist and creative director at John Freida Salons, Zoë Irwin. She recommends blow-drying the hair with the nozzle facing down the hair shaft to give a salon-quality finish, before using the GHD Platinum+ to smooth over the strands. Misting your brush with hairspray and then working it through your ponytail will also help tame any flyaways and add extra hold. I was confused about bow scaling for quite some time until I tested a lot of things and did a little research on the side.

NOTE:As of Patch 1.09, the scaling values of this weapon were changed. Please refer to the Upgrades Tableof this weapon below. Farron Keep. There are 3 around a soul to the left of the second bonfire in this area. One of them drops it I can't talk enough about how people are sleeping on bow builds, and after my first Elden Ring bow run I am now entirely convinced that in terms of early game potential, they reign supreme. I wouldn't recommend it for a new player on a first run, because you need to upgrade your bow FAST and that obviously requires a higher level of general game knowledge to do efficiently. regular enemies: you can cheese most enemies with a bow by shooting them from somewhere they cant reach. You can headshot stagger most humanoids. Try not to fight more than one enemy at once. You can bait enemies into a safer area to fight. explosive barrels can be very useful. Most enemies arent built to deal with you so you can just kinda hit and run until there dead. Like all Barrows equipment, it degrades and will fully degrade after 15 hours of combat. It is repairable.Pulley bow: Lower base damage but better overall damage because the increased range actually matters (unless you use bows point blank, which you dont).