Marksmana vs melee

[Dawidio123]

Btw my friend can 2-3 shot a bear using some basic 20q bow and bone arrows

Nope. Untrue. With ql 20 arrows and 20 ql bow you won't get through a bear armor. Maybe you meant boar, but even then it's not gonna 2-3 shot it.
Hunting with bow is only good with a hql rbow and only for animals you can one shot like seals and so on, in the early game it's way better to just use melee and not waste hours of your life making arrows.

[Reiber]

even miners can use mc now that enemy spawns arent instant anymore

What do you mean by that? No more instant hostile mobs when you mine the tile? What does this have to do with UC vs MC? Sorry for noob questions but I think I was playing in w10 last time...

instead of spawning slimes or boreworms on accident you now spawn "pocket of loose rock" wich will spawn the enemys if triggered, like an little warning, (trolls are an exeption)
this allows the miner to equipp his shield and sword and then trigger the slime spawn,

before that you where just suddenly sorounded by slimes with your pickaxe in hand, meaning you couldnt use shields up or parry, wich made an solid case for going ua on miners, so that you could atleast fight back whithout swapping weapons mid combat.

[Mortis123]

Nope. Untrue. With ql 20 arrows and 20 ql bow you won't get through a bear armor. Maybe you meant boar, but even then it's not gonna 2-3 shot it.

Sorry, I meant boars. And I agree you need to shoot maybe like 5-6 times but it's so easy to drag the boar into a shallow water and after every shot discard combat and reaggro to repeat the process compared to not doing anything to boar with flint knife 30q and 50 UC / 25MC I mean, bows early on seems very op but only usable when you have space and time. I wonder if we can use bows while doing a taming process to quickly deal some damage and then just punch...

About the "pocket of loose rock" - thx for explanation!

[Dawidio123]

Nope. Untrue. With ql 20 arrows and 20 ql bow you won't get through a bear armor. Maybe you meant boar, but even then it's not gonna 2-3 shot it.

Sorry, I meant boars. And I agree you need to shoot maybe like 5-6 times but it's so easy to drag the boar into a shallow water and after every shot discard combat and reaggro to repeat the process compared to not doing anything to boar with flint knife 30q and 50 UC / 25MC I mean, bows early on seems very op but only usable when you have space and time. I wonder if we can use bows while doing a taming process to quickly deal some damage and then just punch...

About the "pocket of loose rock" - thx for explanation!

Yeah compared to a flint knife it's way safer, although once you get a sword you can outrange any animal and do same as you do with a bow, this is why everyone prefers to hunt with melee. Although arguably bow can be used very nicely to get the initial moves you need to hunt.