Bracers of archery

Name	Bracers of archery
Size to wear	small, medium
Armour Class	1
Encumbrance rating	+0
Maximum Enchantment	+2
Grants	nothing
Time to Wear	5

A pair of bracers. These improve your skills with ranged weaponry but interfere slightly with melee combat.

Bracers of archery are a type of gloves that give a +5, +3 slaying bonus to missile combat, but a -1, -1 slaying malus to melee combat. They do not affect spellcasting. There are no unbranded bracers - all are bracers of archery (and in 0.9+ are always identified as such on sight).

Strategy

Obviously more useful for those who primarily use missile combat, although the melee penalty is small enough that it is generally manageable, particularly if you have other slaying bonuses.