This isn’t really a buff or a nerf per se, but more of a change to make these arrows less tiring to use when raiding. Currently, an explosive arrow will deal approximately 1200 damage to a structure, but the issue is this is over 25 seconds, with the initial hit only dealing 200-300 damage.
I propose to change this to where the initial damage is higher, around 700-800, with the dot being much less OR to allow these arrows to stack the burn damage . Their main use is on crenelations or structures that cannot normally be hit with bombs, but they rely FAR too much on an extremely long dot that cannot stack, making the process of taking out a single structure far too lengthy. A single T3 door, with only a measly 25k health, took 5 mins to finally burn.
With this damage, they are, realistically, more “cost effective” than bombs, but are NOT time effective. This should instead change to where they are less cost effective than bombs, while also only being slightly less time effective.
Maybe make it so the DOT effect is removed from the arrows, but the arrows do significantly more damage. In addition, add some new type of arrows called “acid arrows” or something that have the DOT effect similar to the current explosive, and gas arrows (and maybe give it the effect of increasing explosive damage). Also, make it so that the acid is a sort of splash that affects any walls in the clouds radius, as well as players being affected. That way you have explosive arrows to bombard a wall with heavy damage, and acid arrows to weaken the wall to let the explosives be more effective. The acid could be diluted with water, and the acid ammunition could have an expiration timer (because it would eat through the container).
Truth be told, I took a break from Conan for a while, and I don’t entirely know the values of all the explosive weapons and their damage.
Explosive Arrows
initial hit 300, then 25 seconds of 36 dps. If you use a poison arrow around the 20 seconds mark it does @ 2000 ttl damage. Which means the poison adds @ 1000 dmg. So to speed things up i would just spam explosive then poison every 3 to -4 seconds. That will give you about 1300-1400 damage if i am not mistaken. Done with 2 players a T3 Cren should take about 3 minutes tops, and 50 arrows of each. If you do the 20-25 s burn rate, it takes a lot longer (about 12-15 minutes) but uses about 35 arrows of each (half the dragon powder of normal explosive for 70,000 HP).