Board Thread:Online Discussion/@comment-90.196.77.96-20130730194516/@comment-14027812-20130806234000

173.87.54.254 wrote: Your wrong, the base damage for crossbows on average are much more powerful than bows.

While obviously a dragonbone bow with dragonbones arrows is going to be more damaging then a regular crossbow with steel bolts, an enhanced dwarven crossbow (which ignores 50% of armour) made legendary with smithing and dwarven bolts deals more damage then any bow with any arrows.

Owned. Prove it.A Dwarven Crossbow does 58 legendaried damage on my game(88 archery,4/5 Overdraw perk,not the best of my skills),while a EBONY bow does 50 legendaried damage.Dawrven bolts adds 14(?) damage to the maximum output.So,i get a Dragonbone Bow that does considerably more damage than a Ebony Bow(I believe it reaches 60ish at Legendary quality) and dragonbone arrows wich are very easy to smith at any stage of the game.It owns it.Every time.While the Crossbows can be useful at a early stage,the bows still get maximum effectivity.