Bodkin Arrow "glitch" fixed?

[imac2much]

I always thought that Bodkin Arrow's "normal" damage type (as opposed to piercing) was one of its features, making RNG somewhat reliable against bones. Yet this is what I saw in the allakhazam description of the arrow recently:

these no longer have a higher damage rating on bones, than normal arrows. the last maintenance must have fixed this 'glitch'.

Crap! So I guess we're back to piercing penalties on bones huh :dead: Just to make sure, neither bullets or cannon shells do regular damage on bones right?

And here I thought bodkin arrows gave RNG a reason to use bows past 67 :sweat:

[greysenn]

Kabura arrows are a pretty good reason to use bows :p

[poweryoga]

so what the heck are the point of these arrows then? :mad: :mad:

[Corrado]

Damage boost at lvl 50?

Best I could come up with.

[Timoham]

too expensive to use for just the damage boost IMO. But I can confirm that this "glitch" is fixed. I went to eldieme last night with my linkshell to get coffer keys. Against the bones, my scorpion arrows and bodkin arrows were doing the exact same average damage. That's really too bad.

[greysenn]

Thats the problem with them, they don't really fit in very well. I guess you could use them as a damage slot that elemental arrows would take, but the price would need to come way down on them to make em worthwhile. They're like the bastard child of arrows right now.

[Jifan]

Bodkin 6.5-7k per stack, Demon 12-15k per stack. Demons where 9-10k, but the ingredients prices have been going up. Bodkin prices coming down slowly.

[poweryoga]

our server: bodkin 6-7k, demons 7-9k.

demons also offer atk down and scorps are about 1/3 the price of bodkins.

useless....

[greysenn]

At least your guys are cheaper :p Demons are 6-8k on Bahamut, and the bodkins were around 8k at last check.

If they can come down to about 3k, at or a bit less than elemental arrows per stack, they might be useable on a regular basis

[taps]

I want Explosive Bolts for my xbow ^^^^;;;;

[Spider-Dan]

I personally thought Bodkins were insanely overpowered. It's a kick in the nuts to MNK.

Anyway, there's at least one use for them: from 51-60, they are good for Unlimited Shot (as opposed to elementals, especially with Sidewinder). Better DMG than scorps and you don't lose your RACC+5.

[huma]

or.. you could just use demon arrow for unlimited>sidewinder^^

[imac2much]

Well, Demon arrows are level 60 I think, and Bodkin are 50... so I guess they offer a small damage boost before demon. Besides at 60 most RNG use PPA for Unlimited Shot.

[poweryoga]

unless you're a dumbass and shoot off the PPA twice because you frogot to switch ammo or unlimited shot macro lagged.

oh wait.....

[greysenn]

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