When to Start Hunting?

[MrPunchers]

Nice. Don't try that with a bear though. It will take fucking forever if you can even keep up with it. They are also known to attack randomly after running.

Also longer attack range means that you can get hit while boat hunting.
Ko'd quite a few time hunting without armor from this

[Artyom15]

God I actually had an encounter with a bear when going on another boar hunt. I set my character to walk a bit, alt-tabbed without checking the minimap to change my music, and I pull it back up and a bear is right next to me. Got EXTREMELY lucky because Mr. Bear was content with just giving me a concussion instead of ripping out my entrails and feasting on my meat. Didn't get any wounds worse than 10 Deep Cuts, mostly just concussions.

[kBre]

I've searched the forum a bit and couldn't find anything on this:
So I recently started playing again after quitting in w8 and started hunting again. Back in '15 I used to always kill foxes with a bow pretty easily, even on 1 MM but now I can't seem to hit them at all. Was there a change to foxes in some way?

10q Bow, 10-20q Bone Arrows and 5 MM.

[MagicManICT]

There's actually been some changes to archery recently. I'll have to look up which patch notes it was in.

[Enjoyment]

Oh, that was an epic story. Let me tell you...
Far, far away in distant galaxy one man killed some "truly PvP gods" with a single archer.
Those "pvp kids-gods" were very disappointed ant started to cry about archery nerf....
And they've succeeded - Jorb presented us this fukken shit:

• Lowered the angle spread of ranged weapons. Ranged weapons should generally speaking be more accurate.
• Lowered the aiming speed of ranged weapons significantly. Ranged weapons now aim slower.
• Reduced the base damage of bows to ~60%. Left it as was for slings. Increased it for spears.
• Bow reloads automatically after firing.
• Increased combat cooldown after firing a ranged weapon from 30 to 50.
• Arrows have 5% armor penetration.
• There is now a 50% aiming speed debuff whenever you are mounted.
• There is now a (short) minimum distance required for all ranged weapons. I.e. you can't shoot effectively at things you're standing next to.
• Reduced the relative importance of Agility for determining cooldowns in close combat. Values are now what they were in Legacy.

After a while, some people (I hope I was along them) persuaded Jorb, that it was the shittiest idea he ever implemented, so after awhile he made it little bit less "pain-in-the-ass"...
So if you just joined - pray the God, you weren't decided to join in May... Now it's like "ok, J, we'll get used to new archery, but North is always remeber, and we'll never forget"..