UO Second Age

I have searched all over and can not find this answer.

How do i get a practice bow or any weapon for that matter. According to the second age wiki if you start with archery as a skill on a new character you get a "practice bow" that does 2-8 damage. However it is a real bow that 3 shot kills a fighter so its almost impossible to spar with. Arms lore should generate a random practice weapon but it just makes a real weapon as well.

Links to the info i found.
Starting equipment
http://wiki.uosecondage.com/Starting_Equipment
Weapon stats
http://www.uosecondage.com/stratics/arms.html

So whats going on here am i doing something wrong, is the wiki inaccurate, or does this post need to go in era accuracy?

Last any tips on a good way to gm archery preferably via macro?

AFAIK there aren't 'Practice Weapons' here, just newbied versions of the real thing.

I usually raise archery on an order guard - Plant a small house near an outpost, lure a guard in, trap behind a table barrier and fire away. You need a character to heal the order guard though as they no longer heal themselves.

Yep I remember these well.

Polar Bears!!!

(need vet tho)

Jill Stihl wrote:AFAIK there aren't 'Practice Weapons' here, just newbied versions of the real thing.

I usually raise archery on an order guard - Plant a small house near an outpost, lure a guard in, trap behind a table barrier and fire away. You need a character to heal the order guard though as they no longer heal themselves.

fyi that is horrible for gains. they parry a lot, so your tactics take forever to raise. fighter, paladin or polar bear is far quicker

I find the blade spirits still work real well.

Thank you for the advice on how to raise archery but what i really want to know is WTF is up with the practice weapons not showing up on new chars.

Mikel123 wrote:I find the blade spirits still work real well.

This; I think some people forgot the OP wants to raise archery ...

Yes, Blade Spirits are great for training, but buy a crap bow from the NPC bowyer, instead of using your newbie bow: while your skill raises, the bow gets worn out, so you can continue to achieve maximum skill-gain (at least until the bow breaks).

I am enlightened: I didn't realize that we didn't have the "practice versions" as our newbie weapons; DPed newbie daggers are even more valuable than I had supposed!

SS

Downs wrote:fyi that is horrible for gains. they parry a lot, so your tactics take forever to raise. fighter, paladin or polar bear is far quicker

damage doesn't affect the rate at which tactics gains

pretty sure practice weapons are era accurate and we just don't have them

they need to change the wiki then

Drywall8 wrote:they need to change the wiki then

wat

You know you can edit the wiki right?

Sandro wrote:

Downs wrote:fyi that is horrible for gains. they parry a lot, so your tactics take forever to raise. fighter, paladin or polar bear is far quicker

damage doesn't affect the rate at which tactics gains

you only gain tactics on a sucessfull hit. a npc who parries = more unsucessfull hits and less chances to gain

Downs wrote:you only gain tactics on a sucessfull hit. a npc who parries = more unsucessfull hits and less chances to gain

I'm pretty sure a parried hit is still considered "successful" (as in not missed) and will still gain tactics. Out of curiosity I just tried it with a newb and still gained tactics (from ~0) on parried blows.

Rammar wrote:I'm pretty sure a parried hit is still considered "successful" (as in not missed) and will still gain tactics. Out of curiosity I just tried it with a newb and still gained tactics (from ~0) on parried blows.

Good job knowing your mechanics.

Downs, better luck next time.