Do arrows go through water?

mystikspiralfan · Post by **mystikspiralfan** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 6:59 pm

I am trying to defeat a water creature that I cannot handle with my longsword, it will kill me as I am lvl 1 with chirtin armour. So I'm left with my bow. Will this work?

Magrus · Post by **Magrus** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 7:15 pm

Define "water creature"? One of the fish, or something else?

mystikspiralfan · Post by **mystikspiralfan** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 7:34 pm

A dreugh warlord.

Magrus · Post by **Magrus** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 7:39 pm

Hmm. Those are more than a mite harder to kill than slaughterfish.

I am assuming that you have a poor rank in marksmanship and it is not your preferred method of fighting because you are better in melee?

mystikspiralfan · Post by **mystikspiralfan** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 7:55 pm

Actually I have a marksman of 50, being a wood elf. Using a chirtin bow, however.

Magrus · Post by **Magrus** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 8:00 pm

I don't know the specifics, but, if you can use your sword underwater, the game engine should allow for you to shoot arrows into the water. I am assuming you are just running into a bad situation that you aren't handling properly. Arrows miss often if you don't have a good marksmanship skill has been my experience.

Sean The Owner · Post by **Sean The Owner** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 8:59 pm

Magrus wrote:Arrows miss often if you don't have a good marksmanship skill has been my experience.

they sure do, even my character at level 70ish marksmanship is still quite inaccurate, i think it may be normal to be inaccurate even at level 100 so ya, you may as well test it out...although chitin wont do too much damage to them anyways

Magrus · Post by **Magrus** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 6:57 am

*nods* Indeed. It's why I tended to go for destruction spells if I wanted ranged attacks. I would suggest ignoring it for now or trying a new tactic like spells or maybe a hit and run tactic with your sword.

Kipi · Post by **Kipi** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 7:16 am

About the original question, IIRC arrows do go through water, as I have killed many slaughter fish with arrows

Besides what other have suggested here, you could also try to avoid fighting against that creature till you have bit more experience under your belt (I mean levels

).

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 11:08 am

What kind of arrows are you using?
I find that of the less expensive arrows silver tend to fly the straightest and do the most damage.
Your bow makes a difference too. Of the more affordable varieties, bonemold does a decent job.

And yes, arrows do shoot through water. It may be you need to level a bit though...

Asylum1358 · Post by **Asylum1358** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 5:56 pm

I've never been able to shoot an arrow through water or throw darts...my marksman is lvl 100.

Sean The Owner · Post by **Sean The Owner** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 6:27 pm

but kipi and DW have? i must think you are mistaken as its easier to mistake a bunch of misses as thinking arrows dont go through water than killing slaughterfish with a bow...im sure dreugh lords cant be killed though since theyre almost always quite far inside the lake

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 6:07 am

Asylum1358 wrote:I've never been able to shoot an arrow through water or throw darts...my marksman is lvl 100.

My experiences mirrors this.
But it is a long time since I've played, and it might have been "skill" or equipment (using iron/steel arrows instead of higher quality) which affected me, although I had no problems making long shorts and aiming manually - but when I tried (back when I played) to do this to the slaughterfish, it looked at where I shot, the arrow was deflected by the water leading me to believe the option was removed. I did never managed to even kill a slaughterfish by shooting through the water.

Kipi · Post by **Kipi** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 9:59 am

Well, from my side it can always be that I had a mod that allowed me to shoot through the water, since last time I played the game I had huge ammount of mods installed...

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 10:09 am

Kipi wrote:Well, from my side it can always be that I had a mod that allowed me to shoot through the water, since last time I played the game I had huge ammount of mods installed...

I've mostly played the "vanilla" version, and only a little with expansions. Could be a mod?

fable · Post by **fable** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 10:15 am

Kipi wrote:Well, from my side it can always be that I had a mod that allowed me to shoot through the water, since last time I played the game I had huge ammount of mods installed...

Post your mods list.

Kipi · Post by **Kipi** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 10:39 am

fable wrote:Post your mods list.

That's quite hard since I don't have it anymore on my computer

But I'll search if I find the mod...

BlackJax · Post by **BlackJax** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 6:30 pm

I believe I have the solution...

Folks,

Actually I do not believe it is a mod list, but, rather, a hemisphere issue. I'm a perpetual marksman to the point where I will almost never draw my blade, even up close. (Yes, I know this results in many issues of needless backpedaling while shooting, but that's just the way I roll! *lol*)

Anyway, I've noticed that when I am out of the water, I can't shoot things that are in the water. However, when I am submerged in the water, I can shoot and kill anything in the water with me. As such, my guess is that the folks who believe water deflects have been shooting from above it into it, whereas the folks who have had no problem have been shooting from inside the water at other things in the water.

Let me know if this is correct.

Thanks,

Blackjax

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 11:35 pm

I was wondering if it was a mod, lol!

@BlackJax, I do believe you are right with that one, I haven't been playing MW recently, but I'm pretty sure I remember shooting arrows successfully while underwater.

Kipi · Post by **Kipi** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 5:00 am

Yes, the theory BlackJax offers can be the right one... at least the one closest to right...