gesen bow

Crnogorac · Post by **Crnogorac** » Mon Oct 28, 2002 2:45 am

Where do you get the string? Tnx.

CtrlAltDel · Post by **CtrlAltDel** » Mon Oct 28, 2002 4:37 am

In a labyrinth (area 3) in Spellhold guarded by Clay Golems
T6

Crnogorac · Post by **Crnogorac** » Mon Oct 28, 2002 9:34 am

Rocking visual!

Koveras · Post by **Koveras** » Tue Oct 29, 2002 4:13 pm

So what do you guys think of the gesen bow? It has a slow animation but pierces stoneskin, and is +4. (Do Tansheron's Bow pierce stoneskin? Anyone can confirm this?). So should I keep the Tansheron's Bow after I get Gesen Bow? What's your opinions?

ForgotenWarrior · Post by **ForgotenWarrior** » Tue Oct 29, 2002 6:14 pm

I think you should keep all of them just in case, if the enemies can be hit by +1 weapons then tuigan short bow does a lot more damage than gesen or tasheron because of it extra attack(I had 9 attacks when I was improved hasted, imagine that), but to answer your question, I think gesen does more damage than tasheron

Not sure about stoneskin, been a while since I played my archer.

ajers · Post by **ajers** » Wed Oct 30, 2002 3:16 pm

The Tuigan short bow, is absoloutely one of the best bows in the game.

Koveras · Post by **Koveras** » Wed Oct 30, 2002 6:02 pm

Originally posted by ajers
The Tuigan short bow, is absoloutely one of the best bows in the game.

Is it better than Tansheron's Bow?

JackOfClubs · Post by **JackOfClubs** » Wed Oct 30, 2002 6:06 pm

Depends on what you are trying to do with it. The Tuigan bow has 3 attacks/round so it is faster, but it is only +2 THACO. Tansheron's bow is +3 and creates its own ammunition, but only gets the standard 2 attacks per round.

UserUnfriendly · Post by **UserUnfriendly** » Thu Oct 31, 2002 3:31 am

the thaco of the bow adds to the ablity thaco of the user, so gesen adds 5 to archer thaco...

but the ability of the missile to hit target is thaco bonus of the missile, not bow...

so a arrow of piercing used on gesen will not hit demiliches, but without ammo will hit him....

so a tulgan with +3 arrows will hit things gesen with arrows of biting will NOT..biting arrows like all enchanted arrows without thaco bonuses counts as arrows +1,

but equipping arrows on gesen adds electrical damage to enchanted arrows, so biting arrows do poison and electrical damage....this is how gesen punches thru stone skin, bypasses it with electrical damage, causing spell disruption...

one special ability...the firetooth and gesen with plain unmagical arrows will punch thru protection from magical weapons, and still deliver the fire damage and electrical damage...mage killers....

my usual favorite is telemortis, for mazzy or minsc and firetooth for combination of heavy machine gun and light machine gun...firetooth with good archer does massive damage, using either non magical, mage killers, or +3 arrows for immune monsters, like golems, and bolts of biting for everyone else....