Arbalest
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Arbalests are moderately powerful ranged weapons. They have a high damage per hit, but fire slowly, with a mindelay of 1.0 turn (rather than 0.7 turn of most weapons).
Strategy
Arbalests are a mid-game ranged weapon. They are occasionally found on orcs and naga sharpshooters, and often found on yaktaurs inside the Vaults.
Longbows fire faster, making them safer to use (it's easier to react to enemies, less likely to be double-turned). However, arbelests outdamage longbows until moderate levels of skill,and can continue to outdamage against high AC foes or if the body armour penalty is high. If you want to go heavier, triple crossbows are your end goal. If you want more defenses, hand cannons are just as strong, but allow the use of a shield.
| Image | |
|---|---|
| Mundane | File:Arbalest1.png |
| Magical | File:Arbalest2.png |
| Artifact | File:Arbalest3.png |
| Unrandart arbalest | |
| Damnation | File:Urand damnation.png |
History
- Prior to 0.30, arbalests had 17 damage.
- In 0.29, arbalests' stats were nerfed (previously: 18 damage, +2 accuracy) and they were affected by the ranged weapons rework that applied to all launchers, including the removal of the dedicated crossbows skill and physical bolts necessary to fire.
- Prior to 0.15, Crossbows only contained one type of weapon called the crossbow. They were split into arbalests, hand crossbows, and triple crossbows.