Cannot figure out how to enable archery skills

[gladefall]

Howdy all,

Looking for any sage advice on how to enable bow skills for any of the three range classes (ranger, hunter, and scout). I am running the latest build 1.9.7.3605 and using the dolpub alpha3.1 database with some updated data from Chaos' latest release of the DB. Everything else is working but the range skills. From what I have found in the forums it seems like range attacks are configured differently than other skills but I am not sure tbh. Any help to fix this would be greatly appreciated!

[PlanarChaosRvrtwo]

You just need arrows in inventory (quicver slot) to fire bow

[gladefall]

As I thought as well but it still wasn't working. Oddly, I was also experiencing weird bug like behavior with the archery skills as well. For instance, the arrows would slowly strike the character rather than fly out towards the mob. I saw another post here in the forum with this behavior as well. And some of the archery abilities seemed to trigger other buff spells within the archery line. I was able to fix all of this by reverting to 1.9.7.3566 which seems to work on almost any DB. Archery working now with your data once I dropped the db, reloaded, and recompiled 3566.

[PlanarChaosRvrtwo]

ahaha yes the db like to bug on first attempt thats true

[PlanarChaosRvrtwo]

But please note its no longer my database its not tegstewarts db i created the bases and now after i work on own db he gonna lead the public db project

[tegstewart]

But please note its no longer my database its not tegstewarts db i created the bases and now after i work on own db he gonna lead the public db project

For a little while anyway. I'm mostly focusing on basic things that aren't worth a more experienced dev's time to implement. Lots of data entry and such.

[PlanarChaosRvrtwo]

For sure you will hand to another dev in time but for a little while you develope it^^

[afelsing]

Gladefall,

You can try this for the spell fix:

UPDATE Specialization SET Implementation = 'DOL.GS.LiveSpellHybridSpecialization' WHERE KeyName LIKE 'Archery';

[Leodagan]

Are we talking about "Old Archery" or "New Archery" ?

Old Archery is not implemented in public database, an Additional Specialization should be created in "career" that award the Old Archery Skills (they were mostly Abilities If I remember correctly) and some switch must be enabled in Server Properties to fall back to Old Archery Ranged Attack (using your bow weapon to prepare a shot etc...)

Note: Old Archery was not tested with Data Career...

New Archery is simply awarding "Spell Like" bow attack (even for standard shot), so it works mostly like a pure caster Spell List but with cast animation using the bow firing arrows...

[PlanarChaosRvrtwo]

Its not that simple leodagan^^

There arent 2 ways there are 3^^

The really really old ones with critical shot and random shots

the newer method with spells but still require arrows to fire (the time where you had ranged damage and ranged speed)

The newest method they are fully spells and dont need arrows anymore (the time where it all were magic damage and casting speed)

and on our dbs we have the method in the middle

[Leodagan]

I wasn't aware of the "middle" version

So you need to use a Quiver while shooting your bow like a spell caster ?

Damage depends on the type of arrows used ?

[PlanarChaosRvrtwo]

Yes and no

The skills with given damagetype deal magic damage but shoots like crit shot rapid shot and such depends on arrows this is very outdated but still wrong on dol

Couse at these days the first 3 skills are buffs blunt arrows n such at these days you shouldnt use arrows anymore but i dint had the time to solve that on public db and also on scripts^^

[bsnow16]

I have the same problem i have arrows in quiver and in inventory and when i shoot it seems to stick in my character and does nothing...i have the up to date nightly build....any suggestions?

[ontheDOL]

hmm i just realised i've never tried to shoot a bow on DOL

im gonna have to investigate... did you also try with server properties "use old archery" ?

[bsnow16]

Yes i tried that