Hit high level animals

[DocDude]

How much skill do i need to hit high level animals?

I currently have 28 rank marks, tried to shoot a V level deer and couldn't hit it.

Some table/list would be awesome.

[sabinati]

why do people always ask how much X do i need to do Y? the answer is always MORE

[Cookie]

He wants to know if it is worth the effort of grinding marksman or if there is something else he should do.

If you can't hit it yet you are probably pretty near to being able to hit it. I don't know for sure what it takes to hit a lvlV deer, but you sound pretty close. Off hand I might have said Marksman 30, but really that would only be a guess on my part. There is no table where you can look this up.

Try making sure your bow and arrows are the best they can be. Bone arrows are better than stone. Pen and then kill a few foxes or boars to get better q bone for the arrows. Sometimes it takes patience. I like to hunt with two quivers of arrows, both full of mostly q10 arrows. That means I get 80 chances to hurt the quarry. Once you wound it, it gets easier.

When a kind of a blue-white whirling shape appears that means the deer is being healed. Other deer nearby can heal the deer you are shooting at, as well as it healing itself, so deer can be a pain to kill if they are in the middle of a herd. That's one reason why boar are easier to kill than deer.

I skin, butcher and collect the bones from my kill before I collect my arrows. That way if the bones are better than q10 I make them into arrows and get them into my quiver first, before I collect the ones on the ground. You have to hurry though, as your arrows can disappear if they lie on the ground too long.

Are you penning the deer before you start shooting? That helps a lot. If your quarry gets to spend time running away from you it gets a chance to recover soft hit points.

[DocDude]

Sabinati,
The answer should be X because it will allow me to the determine the effort i need to put into getting there and much more.

Cookie,
Thx for the tips, but i was not talking about killing an high level animal, but merely hitting it.

If your skill is not high enough you miss all your arrows, that is the situation i am in.

[Potjeh]

With 50 marksmanship you can hit every animal, though it'll take two quivers or so to bring down an X bear.

[Cookie]

The arrow q does matter however; that's why I mention it. If you can't hit the animal with q10 arrows at your marksman level, you probably will be able to hit it with a couple of q17 arrows. Once you start it bleeding the q10 arrows would be adequate to go on hitting it. The bow quality also matters. It's not just your marksman skill. With 28 marksman, I'd think you should be able to hit a lvlV deer at least some of the time, maybe once in five or six shots. If you're not making it bleed at all something is too low, which seems odd.

Marksman skill also effects your ability to make archery equipment, and so does survival, as well as the q of the materials. If you made your kit when you were starting archery with maybe q10 in marksman and survival, remaking it now of the same materials could help. (The quality of the quiver doesn't matter at all.)

[Potjeh]

Huh, I thought quality is only for damage, not for chance to hit. Learn something every day.

[iamofage]

Huh? The quality of the quiver doesn't affect anything? Someone told me it speeds up aim speed...

[Rhiannon]

Huh? The quality of the quiver doesn't affect anything? Someone told me it speeds up aim speed...

Perhaps if your weapon/ammo was higher (when x 2) than your marks skill it would allow you better aim as according to the thread on archery it would be that number that determined your aim skill at the moment. But also remember that strategy plays a part in your success. I watched my brother take out a lvl X bear last night, it took him 30 minutes, getting knocked out once so he could refill his backpack with stones, restart the fight, and he eventually killed the bear...with lvl 20 marks, a q13 sling and q10 stones. So play around with both strategies and equiptment/skills.

[Emina]

dont forget to get some perception aswell, it goes hand in hand with MM nowdays.