Quiver feedback, so far

Wicked Experimental Branch
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Hello, I have played the entirety of the beta as an archer. I love the bow changes and won’t go into movesets of bows here as this is about quivers. I have not finished the game yet only just entered Lowland Meadows and the forest. If anything changes I will reply here with more findings. In addition I have a feeling the quivers are not fully implemented yet

Pro:

  • Quivers are overall fun and powerful the malus of stamina is very justifiable
  • Some runes hitting twice gives very fun power boost (Skyfall Shot)
  • Easy access to the advanced status system and shatter. Using a no element bow on frozen enemies with Skyfall Shot with ice quiver. Or using Skybreaker after you burning enemies with a fire quiver. I am using those two at the same time currently

Con:

  • Quivers are the same just with different elements
  • Quivers are very punishable in Co Op
  • Since there are no enchantments and seemingly no facets once you find a quiver you got it, no excitement seeing it again as you can’t enchant them and you can’t craft them or research them. This is why I suspect no full implementation yet.
  • They all turn the bow into a grenade launcher and heavily alter the flight paths of arrows. With the rune interactions as well.
  • Maybe no physical / bleed applying quiver (again not fully through may drop later)

Suggestion / Wishlist:
Keep the elemental aspects on the quivers but also add quivers with less stamina punishment, maybe 3, that only add the element so we keep the versatility of them but have actual arrows

More creative quivers maybe lightweight arrows, that reduce the damage of the bow, but also reduce stamina cost instead of increasing it.

Ricochet quiver, 5 more stamina, reduces damage but arrows bounce between targets

If not already planned, make them craftable and enchantable with specific enchants only on quivers that only affect bows, could in the future be applied to other offhands as well with unique enchants benefiting the weapon type they support. Adding sockets and effects to the gems like status application build up.

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I wanted to suggest the same thing, I really like this idea.

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+1

Bows are now fantastic, don’t change it for now.

But quivers need a bit more. The essence is already great, but I was taken aback when I learned I can’t infuse them, socket them, etc.

Also indeed I haven’t found any quivers beyond elemental grenade quivers. Would be great to get things like sniper quivers (high single target damage), bleed, ricochet, piercing, machine gun, … quivers

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Thomas did confirm these current quivers are not all and were rushed which is awesome news. I think with sniper and pierce while an awesome idea would be much into territory of the different bows. Yew Longbow for example is now the sniper one, the Answered Prayer (I think it was this one) pierces.

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Crossbow wouls be nice to have as well. I mean ennemies already use them, why not let us have them?

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They are in development but I am sure just like with bows each is supposed to feel unique and not the same. I think in the Q&A Thomas did talk about them again. We just need to wait for them

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Crossbows will be added eventually. You can see one on the left-most rack.

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that makes more sense, I dug this thread wondering why quivers have different attribute lvl requirements if they all do the exact same thing.
EG: I have 2 Blighted Quiver, 1 need 19 Dex the other 10, but they do the exact same thing.