Soldier's Crossbow

"heavy ranged weapon that uses metal rather than wood to propel bolts."

Information
Drop chance : N/A Crafted through the blacksmith

Tier:

Abilities
[Bolts pierce through multiple enemies]

Special Effect: Killing an enemy with the melee restores all 6 arrows

Potential
Attacks: Melee/Ranged both physical

Attack Speed: 2 swings per second with the Sword/Fires a bolt every 1.1 seconds

Normal: Short sword, single target

Utility: Ranged Weapon with crowd control

Combat Style: Keep distance and pick off low health opponents

Pros:

+ Sword swings quickly (twice every second)

+ Bolts fly faster than arrows

+ Crossbow hits Multiple Targets

+ Sword has better range than a bow's dagger so you won't waste ammo on short range targets

+ strong single shot ranged attack (2 times more damage than its short sword)

Cons:

- Only holds 6 bolts

- Can only reload when you kill an enemy

- Melee does not have as much range as a spear

- You can not choose a specific target to fire your crossbow at

- Need to get close to enemies to reload weapon

- Crossbow attacks 2 times slower than the sword

- requires a lot of wood to upgrade

- costs more gold to craft than a bow.

Extra Tips:

-try to fire your crossbow into a crowd to maximize damage output

-don't try to use the crossbow against a boss since you need to Kill something to get your ammo back

-Hitting enemies that would usually run away from you, like archers and shamans, won't have this behavior if your hit them with a Crossbow bolt. You can kill them without having to chase them

-movement abilities like the combat roll and sprint are effective since you can both widen the gap to shoot enemies and quickly move into melee range to reload your bolts

-weaken enemies with your ranged weapon and finish them off with your melee to ensure that you don't run out of ammo

Forge/Modifier Table
None

Sharp

Mystic

Enraging

Vital

Agile

Spiritual

Vampiric

Upgrade
Each upgrade consumes both isikith planks and iron ingots, getting progressively more expensive the higher level the weapon is.