120 Throwing & can't hit anything!

[Eric Ravenwind]

I got 120.0 Throwing (real skill) & can't hit anything. I went to New Haven Mines; fired at Earth Elementals at acceptable range for the weapons - I hit them once or twice but miss all the other times.

Tried it on various other monsters and animals, and its all the same - I keep missing.

What is going on with this ??

 

[Eric Ravenwind]

I also, have tried killing myself, switching weapons, crossing server lines, attacking different targets..

 

[Prince Erik]

My guess is you have a shield equipped. If you do, you take a massive hit chance decrease. If you don't have one equipped, then I'm not sure.

I made that mistake with my first tosser!

 

[Eric Ravenwind]

My guess is you have a shield equipped. If you do, you take a massive hit chance decrease. If you don't have one equipped, then I'm not sure.

I made that mistake with my first tosser!

Thanks! That was it. I unequiped my shield and now i can hit stuff. Now what do I do for my free hand? any ideas?

 

[Victim of Siege]

Hold a beer.

 

[Eric Ravenwind]

Hold a beer.

LOL !

 

[Picus at the office]

Chug, my garg's were all built around having that hand free and running with 50% ep.

 

[Laura_Gold]

Take off shield and leave that hand empty.

 

[popps]

My guess is you have a shield equipped. If you do, you take a massive hit chance decrease. If you don't have one equipped, then I'm not sure.

I made that mistake with my first tosser!

Why aren't the Throwing weapons 2-handed weapons ?

Not having a Shield equipped one loses all of the stats that the shield could have given...

At least this could be compensated if Throwing weapons where to be 2-handed and have, of course, more stats to benefit from as compared to a 1-handed weapon ?

 

[EvilPixieWorks]

Perhaps if game staff had listened to the massive results of adding elves back in the day...

And added a new race 1x a year... we'd have Hobbits by now.

And Hobbits would have like a 20% bonus throwing skill... as they do.

 

[Zalan]

Throwing is so broke the Developers don't even know how it works. There's something about a sweat spot, over throwing and under throwing.

Archery uses ammo, but at least its fire and forget. No sweat spots or penality to worry about.

 

[Eric Ravenwind]

After playing a thrower for a while, I feel we need more variety of throwing weapons, and ability to use shields.

 

[Mahler]

If you have parry you can reduce or totally negate the hit chance penalty depending on your skill level

 

[PlayerSkillFTW]

Throwing is so broke the Developers don't even know how it works. There's something about a sweat spot, over throwing and under throwing.

Archery uses ammo, but at least its fire and forget. No sweat spots or penality to worry about.

The sweet spot is dependent on your STR. With 150 STR, most Throwing Weps have a max range of 11 tiles, which is further than Archery. However, if you throw at the max of 11 tiles, you deal less damage. At 10 tiles though, you'll have full damage with 150 STR.

If you have parry you can reduce or totally negate the hit chance penalty depending on your skill level

I tried that a few years ago. It still has a hit chance penalty even with GM+ Parry, it's just not quite so severe.

 

[celticus]

Thanks! That was it. I unequiped my shield and now i can hit stuff. Now what do I do for my free hand? any ideas?

Chug potions when needed : Nice to do, either though expl. potions, of heal etc etc..