Board Thread:Online Discussion/@comment-90.196.77.96-20130730194516/@comment-14027812-20130807024142

173.87.54.254 wrote: http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Dwarven_Crossbow_(Dawnguard) please observe the triva at the bottom, the pure base damage for crossbow in more powerful than a dragonbone bow. perks, enchatments, and the archery skill aside it is more poweful.

also an enhanced crossbow ignores 50% of armour, meaning even with a lower base damage it will deal damage through armour, meaning its better, also the longer you hold down the attack button with a bow, the farther you pull it back, and it travels farther and deals more damage correct? a crossbow autmomatically goes as far as it can and deals the same amount of damage regardless of how long you the down the aatack button.

and crossbow also have a 50% chance to stagger the opponent.

read this aswell. http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Crossbows_(Dawnguard)

In the adavntages a reagular crossbow has a higher bass damage then a daederic bow, and costs less to buy/make and you dont need a 90+ smithing skill.

Owned. Pay attention,for the sake of sanity.I said that Crossbow are great for earlier stages,didn't i?But still,Having a Dragonbone Bow(20 base damage) and Dragonborn Arrows(25 damage) completely offsets the base damage advantage of the crossbows.That is waht you're missing.Dragonbone Arrows are much easir to make than exploding bolts,thus allowing it to have more ammo and costing little to none(it's Dragon Bone and Firewood,literally free) to make.Also,the perk Power Shot renders the stagger effect of the crossbows useless.Did you ever fire a bow with Quick Draw?Combine it with dragonbone gear and it gets OP.The only real advantage here is the Ignore armor,but pretty much alwasy in my game i one hit sneak kill people so that won't likely be a problem.Next time you post something,pay attention to stuff.