Cost of an item?

[Bigdaddyjug]

I'm terrible at figuring out costs of specialty items.

How much will an Adaptive Composite Longbow cost?

Also, for an Inquisitor archer, is there anything else I can or should add to the bow to make it more useful?

[Bigdaddyjug]

Anyone?

[Bill Faulkner]

Bigdaddyjug wrote:

Anyone?

It's really very easy.

Comp Longbow costs 100.
MW Weapon costs 300 (required for enchanting)
+1 magic costs 2000 (required for additional enchanting)
Adaptive costs 1000

Grand total: 3400, for a +1 Adaptive Comp Longbow.

[Bigdaddyjug]

Damn, not even halfway there yet then. I knew we should have played up yesterday despite the fact it was a Season 4 scenario.

Oh, and one other thing. Assuming my Str bonus is +2, what bonuses would that bow give me to hit and damage?

[Hawktitan]

A +1 adapative composite longbow would cost 3400.

[Hawktitan]

Bigdaddyjug wrote:

Damn, not even halfway there yet then. I knew we should have played up yesterday despite the fact it was a Season 4 scenario.

Oh, and one other thing. Assuming my Str bonus is +2, what bonuses would that bow give me to hit and damage?

Total of +3 to hit and damage. One being the +1 of the weapon, the other two being your +2 str.

[RumpinRufus]

Hawktitan wrote:

Bigdaddyjug wrote:

Damn, not even halfway there yet then. I knew we should have played up yesterday despite the fact it was a Season 4 scenario.

Oh, and one other thing. Assuming my Str bonus is +2, what bonuses would that bow give me to hit and damage?

Total of +3 to hit and damage. One being the +1 of the weapon, the other two being your +2 str.

This is not really correct - your to-hit depends on your Dex not your Str.

Say you have a +1 composite longbow with a strength rating of 2:
- your attack bonus is BAB + Dex + 1 (because the bow has a +1 bonus)
- your damage is 1d8 + 2 (assuming you have at least 14 Str) + 1 (because the bow has a +1 bonus)

An adaptive bow, of course, doesn't need a strength rating, it automatically adjusts. If your Str suddenly increases, so does your damage - but your to-hit doesn't increase unless your Dex goes up.

[Hawktitan]

Rumpin has everything correct- to hit with a bow is based on Dex and not Str. I don't know what I was thinking.

[Bigdaddyjug]

Well right now I have a composite longbow (Str +2) and 14 str. Should I be doing 1d8 + 3 dmg with it?

Also, my Dex is 16. Should my to hit be: BAB (0 as a level 1 Inq) + 3 (Dex) + 1 (bow bonus) + 1 (Point Blank Shot if <= 30 ft)?

[RumpinRufus]

Bigdaddyjug wrote:

Well right now I have a composite longbow (Str +2) and 14 str. Should I be doing 1d8 + 3 dmg with it?

Also, my Dex is 16. Should my to hit be: BAB (0 as a level 1 Inq) + 3 (Dex) + 1 (bow bonus) + 1 (Point Blank Shot if <= 30 ft)?

Your bow is non-magical, correct? If so:

to-hit = 0 (BAB) + 3 (Dex) + 1 (Point-Blank Shot if <= 30 ft) = 3 or 4
damage = 1d8 + 2 (Str) + 1 (Point-Blank Shot if <= 30 ft) = 1d8 + 2 or 3

If you had a +1 bow, add 1 to each of those values.

[Bigdaddyjug]

Ok, I wasn't sure if the Str +2 characteristic of the bow needed a magical bow as the base for it.

This is my first PFRPG character and I've changed my mind about what I wanted to do so many times I've confused myself.

The good news is this is a PFS character and the scenario I played yesterday put me at level 2, so once I play another scenario my choices are locked in for this character.

I can say that I had a blast yesterday as an archer Inquisitor. We had a 7 person group playing 1-2 in a season 4 scenario and I was the only level 1 and I made a decent contribution to the group.

[RumpinRufus]

A composite bow does not need to be magical to have a strength rating. The notation is rather confusing, because often composite bows are denoted as "composite bow +2" or something, where the +2 is a strength rating and NOT an enhancement bonus. This leads to weird things like "a +1 composite longbow +2"... so in general, just avoid calling referring to a strength rating as "plus" anything.

Less confusing:
+1 composite longbow strength 2

More confusing:
+1 composite longbow +2

[Francisco Cisneros]

I write it on my character sheet as: Composite Longbow (Str +2), I just forgot to ask my friend who recommended it to me whether it was already a +1 or not.

I think I'm going to save up gold for the Adaptive Composite Longbow. As a fresh level 2 I've got 16 HP, 19 AC, +8 Initiative, +5 to hit (or more depending on range), do 1d8 +2 damage (or more depending on range), and I've got a wand of CLW with only 2 charges missing. Oh and my saves are +4/+3/+6 or something like that.

I was looking through the UE guide earlier and didn't see anything I can afford that seemed like it would give me a big boost. I do have access to a Cloak of Resistance +1, but I think my saving throws are good enough for now that I can save up for the new bow.

I just need to decide what new orison and 1st–level spell to get before my next session.

Oh, this is the OP by the way. I finally changed my alias to the character's name. Yeah, kind of cheesy to name an Inquisitor after one of the grand inquisitors from the Spanish Inquisition, but I don't know enough about the game world to come up with an appropriate non-cheesy name.