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{{flavour|A long, strong bow made of yew. It does excellent damage in combat and a skilled archer can use it to great effect.}}
 
{{flavour|A long, strong bow made of yew. It does excellent damage in combat and a skilled archer can use it to great effect.}}
  
{{crawlquote|This weapon falls into the '[[Bows]]' category. Note that while the base damage is 15, the base damage of an [[arrow]] is added to give an overall base damage of 22.}}
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{{crawlquote|This weapon falls into the '[[Bows]]' category, with a base damage of 15.}}
  
 
'''Longbows''' are a marked improvement over [[shortbow]]s, dealing much more damage in exchange for a slight accuracy penalty and a higher skill requirement for fast attacks. Mid- and late-game bow-users will absolutely want to upgrade to one of these.
 
'''Longbows''' are a marked improvement over [[shortbow]]s, dealing much more damage in exchange for a slight accuracy penalty and a higher skill requirement for fast attacks. Mid- and late-game bow-users will absolutely want to upgrade to one of these.

Revision as of 00:53, 2 May 2017

Version 0.18: This article may not be up to date for the latest stable release of Crawl.
Name Longbow
Skill Bows
Damage 15
Accuracy +0
Base delay (%) 17 (170%)
Min delay 7 at 20 skill
Hands 2H
Size Large
Ranged? Yes


A long, strong bow made of yew. It does excellent damage in combat and a skilled archer can use it to great effect.
This weapon falls into the 'Bows' category, with a base damage of 15.

Longbows are a marked improvement over shortbows, dealing much more damage in exchange for a slight accuracy penalty and a higher skill requirement for fast attacks. Mid- and late-game bow-users will absolutely want to upgrade to one of these.


Image
Mundane Longbow 1.png
Magical Longbow 2.png
Artifact Longbow 3.png
Piercer Longbow piercer.png
Storm bow Longbow storm bow.png
Sharnga Bow of zephyr.png


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