Blunt arrows seem to kill rather than concuss. Anyone else having this problem or know of a fix?
Blunt arrows and javelins havent worked properly for some time. Its just more noticeable now that both come under Agility. Another reason to spec into authority.
I haven’t had issues with the arrows. Make sure you use a low dmg bow with blunted fitting on it if possible. Blunted arrows are pretty useless now since the stamina bar regenerates.
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That’s sound practical advice but its a work around not a fix. If you need to use a weaker bow that proves the arrows arent working. It wasnt so much of an issue before but now that the devs want people to be able to run different builds for different play styles then they need to make those options work.
It’s no bug. It’s always been like this since they were introduced. You have to use your lowest damage bow when using it to take thralls. Bow damage will ALWAYS count for full damage regardless of the arrow your’re using. Arrow damage is just added on top the bow damage - remember that!
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Fair enough. Honestly though if youre going to be knocking out a lot of thralls youre still better off running an authority build anyway so its kind of a moot point.
If your trying to cheese them from rooftops, the concussive bar is probably recovering faster than you damage them.
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yeah noticed this - the concussive bar instantly regens to full as soon as they reset - mentioned in the patch notes (although I wasn’t expecting instant regen to full)
Since the release of 3.0 I have been able to use a better quality bow w/blunted weapon fitting and blunted arrows… w/o killing the target.
Just food for thought.
SP - No mods.
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I’m trying something similar. I’m using a whole platoon for bowmen with blunted arrows on the RedMother’s “Reach” bow. Blunted fitting on all the bows… And now just trying to get hard purge initiated.
What do you mean?
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If a thrall resets, their concussion bar immediately regens to full
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Ah… right… I see… Thanks for that man! Appreciated.
You cannot cheese!! This is my favorite 3.0 change… yes… yes I know. 
:))) Noob :)))
So all this time u were climbing somewhere safe and shoot at thralls.
How about u shoot at their feets…and kite them…Doable before 3.0 on up to 3 targets.
I did noticed though with 3.0 that if they do not hit you back…they still reset…Even with 5 stacks of slow on them…they just go back to their spawn point and Bam! 50-100 arrows wasted 
(And yeah, i do not get hit…)
Using the Pict Bow 
so targets do not get killed in the process. cough Bcardi0427
I guess that won’t be a problem during a purge?
What do you guys think?
Now I just need to figure our how to initiate the specific purge I want.
Ignore the evil spiders… they were added to kill everyone fast in case of a lame easy purge. When I figure out how to start a specific kind Ill remove all those quickly before it starts.
Thralling now requires that personal touch.
Or a thrall that respects my authority 
Arrows allowed you to get your very first thrall easily. Then you don’t need them anymore and this has not changed much as long as you know where to stand and what to get.
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I have friends that are addicted to blunted arrows that now must enter rehab. Its for the best.
If they were playing AoC / EEWA I can feel their pain 
Yeah I think they will have some work to do… I think they counted on cheesing the high end thralls in order to get them.