Elemental Arrows

[Faisal]

hi everyone,

i was thinking, is there any elemental arrows? like fire arrows, ice arrows , earth arrows, wind arrows? .. maybe poison, cursed etc.. i donno if there is similar threads for that... but sure i didnt find an answer around here...

and if there is elemental arrows... how can they be created?...

any answer please? ^_^.
Thanks

[BahamutKaiser]

I was kind of hoping elemental damage would be unique to the mage class, and at least require stigma or special equipment to utilize elsewhere. Afterall, there should be some originality right, maybe Arrow can work like arrows, I've already seen some fanciful stuff fired out of their bows, but I think it'd be nice if they remained original from elemental casting.

[Gravity]

They have a poison arrow, at least, I think, it shoots green, and little bubbles appear above the target, which to me, looks like it's being poisoned. But as for elemental, we haven't seen anything like that yet. I doubt it will be though.

[Faisal]

hmm, what a pity , since i seen many games for elemental arrows for ranger or archer classes .. at least if not elemestal.. should be some kind of other elements ... nice to hear they got poison arrows... and i think they should have fire arrows at least too ... coz its normal thing for ranger to have fire arrows.. am i wrong? .. not that i want to me ranger.. i still not sure what class to choose.. but it would be more interesting..

[Asundar]

Ehh, hmmm. I can't remember any game where they get fire arrows. In LOTRO you can craft oil as a scholar, which you apply to arrows... fire damage or light damage. I can't remember fire arrows in other games >_< I'm sure I'm wrong, just have a terrible memory. I'd like to see oils here, was a pretty cool feature in LOTRO. I love player reliant damage boosters!

[BahamutKaiser]

FFXI had fire arrows, I think.... and GW had a variety of fire enchantments to add to arrows. I just don't expect to see the elemental damage of fire being throw by bows, maybe the ingition of fire by ignigted arrows, but not actual fire damage, because your still shooting an arrow. But I mean, how important is a fire arrow?, I saw a Ranger video where they shoot a flame bird at the foe like in Narnia, what more do you want?

[Taerr]

I'm pretty sure he's a Ragnarok Online fanatic like myself :P where you have arrows of pretty much every element, as well as arrows that have a chance of inflicting statuses. However these arrows are not buyable, and instead need to be "created" by destroying rare items for "large amounts" or common items for 1-5 ea. It was an interesting system for RO, but i feel Aion will play ALOT different, requiring much more skill and not potion/skill spam as RO was. RO was alot more dependent on what element atack you were doing to determine your damage. I don't see Aion as having the element system as involved as RO, therefore i don't really see Aion implementing elemental arrows.

[Kyio]

I mentioned an idea like this in some past thread somewhere. I agree, thinking about it now, that mages should have elemental power as a unique part of the class. But mabey instead of elemental arrows, what about different types of arrows more unique to status changes. Like what was said about the poison arrows, but maybe a def-down or agl-down or even a small mana-drain type arrow. You have your basic arrows, powerful and very usefull, but you have the option of perhaps through stigma, you can train in a magic ability to tip your arrows with something that can do these things

Maybey giving your arrows a 10% chance to increase all damage done to a target by (insert number here). Lots of ideas to put up here. Stealing some ideas from FFXI of course, not ALL original thinking here

[BogusDude]

i'm sure it will be more a case of using skills to inflict certain types of damage and conditions or adding fiery/icy/poisonous/etc bow strings to a bow, who knows, i'm pretty sure they'll be fairly versatile though

[shadowkissed]

I love the different arrow types in FFXI always have a stacks of bolts on my wheni go partying.

I hope they have something equivelant inthis game

Shadowkissed

[Tizz]

would be nice to see something like that... a lot of the F2P games..like Silkroad and 2moons had similar things..all elements..though they never really went into depth of the damage it could do would be nice to see aion bring this in and let it determine the strength of the arrow

[lifeis2ez]

instead of elemental damage or casting from arrows I think they should at least have varieties of arrows like GW. this way damage can be slightly enhanced if correct "elemental" arrows are matched with opposites. This would not take away from the uniqueness of mages but give rangers a small advantage in different areas of PVE while fighting monsters. I think it could have been an interesting idea, but if this is a complete "no no" I won't change my mind about being a ranger.

~not that it matter but I'm a big fan of GW,