Ascended longbow wielded

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Posted by: Elbritil.3817

Elbritil.3817

Q:

It’s obvious that this is a well known thing, but i didn’t found any topic with dev answer on it. The problem based on logic (and other game’s arts) the greatbow should be rotated with 180 degree in the hands of the characters, because the handguard is on the inner side, but it should be on the outer side of the wielders arm.
So the question would be: is it intended this way, or sould it be fixed? Some dev answer would be fine

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Posted by: Donari.5237

Donari.5237

A:

I think the problem is that the “Wielded” preview puts all two hand weapons in the right hand, but the bow is supposed to be held in the left hand and drawn with the right (per game mechanics, see other threads for folks asking for left handed characters). So the preview displays the weapon as it will look on the character, except shifted to the wrong side of the body for the grip. It might be hard to code it to be treated as an offhand weapon in the preview.

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Posted by: Redenaz.8631

Redenaz.8631

As Donari says, the preview is inaccurate. With most weapons it isn’t very noticeable, but it’s really obvious that there’s a mistake with the ascended longbow.

When you’re actually using one, the bow is the way you expect it to be. See picture.

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