Greatbow balance

[Tamior]

@darktoes

We have this now: Lack of a consistent guideline for ranged weapon damage · Issue #26183 · CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA · GitHub
It’s nice and I like it.

The conclusions I’ve drawn from what you’ve said is:

1. Current bow recipes are a bit simplistic. I already had plans to fix that.
2. Melee weapons don’t scale well with strength, which is odd, but not something on my todo list by any means.
3. Some bows could stand to be better spread across the strength values. I already had tentative plans to fix that, but I suspect it should help even out your complaint.

I maintain that starting with 18 strength and bullrushing the greatbow is not representative of standard play, nor is the greatbow particularly out of line with other bows, but I can see where you got the idea from.

1 ) Making bow crafting more complicated is something I’m 100% on board with.

2-3) If you introduce bows that will scale with strength the way you currently suggest you will have to either re-balance all enemy HP and armor values, or high-end bows with moderate skill will one-shot just about everything (instantly sending the game meta-balance down the drain).

As for “starting with 18 strength and bullrushing the greatbow” — it’s a completely normal play under current meta available to any profession and starting scenario.
More so if you plan to introduce more bows with lower strength requirements and similar damage scaling.