Patch Notes, Saturday, October 30th

[guineapig]

Originally Posted by RKromwell [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

As some one that played a ranger from Beta til the end of my time on live, yes rangers did crits with their bows. At one time, during beta they played with giving all the fighter classes crits. They found it was too over powered for rangers to get crits with normal weapons but they kept them in for bows. Unless you have access to beta patch notes though, I can't prove it.

Edit:

If you have beta patch notes, rangers were given bow crits at the same time Rogues were given the ability to crit with thrown weapons. Which was buffed up, crit chance was too low, sometime just before or after RoK.

EDIT:

Aye, that was live at launch and was further enhance in February of 2000 with an added damage bonus and the ability to do a "Critical Strike". Sorry could not find the info on rangers, just rogues.

Rogue Enhancements:

Rogues received several enhancements as part of this patch:

* The chance to score a critical hit with a throwing weapon has been increased significantly.
* When throwing a weapon from behind the NPC in question, a rogue now has a chance to score a "Deadly Strike", for enhanced damage above and beyond that of a critical hit.