Archery Guides

How To Fire A Bow
Step 1: Hold the bow in your Left Hand.
Step 2: Take one arrow out of your arrow bundle.
          Syntax: take 1 arrow
Step 3: Fire the bow at your victim!
          Syntax: fire <target>

How To Fire A Crossbow
Step 1: Hold the crossbow in your Left Hand.
Step 2: With one free hand, cock the crossbow.
          Syntax: cock crossbow
Step 3: Take one bolt from your bolt bundle.
          Syntax: take 1 bolt
Step 4: Load the crossbow.
          Syntax: load crossbow
Step 5: Fire the crossbow at your victim!
          Syntax: fire <target>

How To Aim Your Bow
Syntax: aim <body part>
Body Parts: right eye, left eye, head, neck, back, chest, abdomen, right arm, left arm, right hand, left hand, right leg, left leg.
Note: Aiming adds one second of round time.

How To Stop Aiming
Syntax: aim clear
Note: You will continue to aim at the desired body part until you use this command.

How Round Time Works For Bows
Step 1: Take the base round time of the bow you are using.
Short Bow5 seconds
Composite Bow6 seconds
Long Bow7 seconds
Step 2: If you are Aiming add 1 second.
Step 3: Find out your Strength Bonus.
Step 4: Add the corresponding Strength Bonus for any spells you have on to your current Strength Bonus
Wizard's Strength+15
Phoen's Strength+10
Step 5: Take your Strength Bonus with spells included and for ever +10 bonus you have (rounded down), subtract 1 second from the bow's base speed.
Note: Wearing armor you're not trained for will increase your round time.
Note: The minimum firing time is 3 seconds.

How Round Time Works For Crossbows
Cocking: Minimum round times for crossbows.
Light Crossbow3 seconds
Heavy Crossbow5 seconds
Note: The higher your Strength Bonus the greater chance you achieve the minimum cocking round time.
Note: Dwarves and Gnomes are better at cocking crossbows.
Note: Wearing armor you're not trained for will increase your cocking round time.
Firing: Crossbows are always fired in 2 seconds unaimed, or 3 seconds aimed.

Overcoming the Aiming Penalty
Bows: The strength bonuses needed to overcome the aiming penalty are the following.
Short Bow+30 Strength Bonus
Composite Bow+40 Strength Bonus
Long Bow+50 Strength Bonus
Crossbows: You cannot overcome the aiming penalty with a crossbow.

Sniping and Round Time
Succesfully Sniping: If you succesfully stay hidden you recieve a 1 second round time penalty.
Unsuccesful Sniping: You will not recieve any penalty.
Cocking from Hiding: Succesfully cocking a crossbow from hiding will add 1 second to your roundtime.
Note: There is no way to offset the sniping penalty.

Kneeling
Kneeling Bonus: Kneeling with a crossbow will grant a +30 AS bonus.
Note: Kneeling with a any non crossbow will grant you no bonus.