Introduction to the Poison Bow Playstyle
The poison bow playstyle in Kingdom Come: Deliverance II is simple yet powerful. So, how can this strategy be developed? Below is a guide to the poison bow playstyle brought to you by “Yucklys,” which we hope will be helpful to everyone.
Core Skills for the Poison Bow
During this time, I've been experimenting with archery, accumulating some experience to share. The poison bow is arguably the most straightforward build that allows you to fight any enemy without taking damage and avoiding any direct engagement.
- Prioritize Upgrades: The two core skills you should prioritize are Alchemy and Archery. Archery relies heavily on potions and skill levels. Before you unlock key perks, you need to transition to melee combat. In the early stages, avoid fighting with bows, as getting up close can end badly.
Focus on Alchemy
The most important skill to enhance first is Alchemy, which is relatively easy to level up. Simply make potions with any herbs you find. With the assistance of an apothecary, you can make money efficiently. The core perks to invest in are:
- Poison Expert
- Secrets of Matter
- Black Magic Apprentice
- Secrets Within Secrets
Poison Expert increases the effectiveness of your poisons. With Secrets of Matter II combined with Secrets Within Secrets, you can brew up to six extraordinary potions at once. The Black Magic Apprentice perk compensates for the margin of error. Alchemy can be performed using only dried herbs from midnight to 4 AM to create extraordinary potions.
Essential Potions and Strategies
Once you obtain the Poison Expert and Secrets of Matter perks, you’ll already have essential damage capabilities. After unlocking Secrets Within Secrets, your Alchemy will be well-equipped.
- Key Potions: The essential potions to keep on hand are the Archer's Potion and the Doll Poison, which you can purchase at a camp or find recipes online, with ingredients available from herbalists. The Archer's Potion will enhance your accuracy, while the Doll Poison serves as the core of your strategy. This poison restricts enemy movement, making them unable to sprint if hit, even allowing you to maneuver past packs of wolves. Additionally, it inflicts 50 health damage, so once lightly armored enemies are hit by an arrow, they can likely wait for death.
Additional Tips for Success
Since you'll need to drink the Archer's Potion, investing extra points into the Purple Fog talent is beneficial. Consuming Stag Blood along with a Stimulating Ointment gives a direct boost of 6 vitality and 6 agility, greatly enhancing your hit rate.
Introduction
Once you acquire the puppet poison, you can start using the bow in practical combat. Before that, you can level up by hunting animals or competing in shooting ranges. The most important perks for archery are crippling strike and volley, with volley significantly increasing your shooting speed, allowing you to apply poison to each enemy easily. After reaching level 12, you can unlock the skirmisher perk, which completes the build. The main strategy is to quickly shoot all enemies to inflict poison and then kite them, taking them down one by one. Enemies are limited to walking speed, making it impossible for them to catch up to you. The arrows ignore the enemy's master counter and perfect block, dealing poison damage even against shielded and armored foes, and you can target weak spots to inflict damage.
Key Perks and Strategies
Focus on improving perks like the bowyer from the craftsmanship tree and the master archer from the survival tree to increase damage against armored opponents. The survivor's seeker perk provides a straightforward 25% damage boost. Additionally, the rhetoric perks like war cry and intimidating warrior are also suitable for an archer build. Since enemies move slowly, you can comfortably use the war cry without fear of being attacked during its duration; it also provides a 15% damage increase. Furthermore, with enemies affected by poison and the bleeding status, they're more likely to surrender under the pressure of the intimidating warrior's war cry. While clearing camps, firing one arrow per enemy followed by a war cry quickly disperses or intimidates them, resulting in high crowd-control efficiency.
Dog Companions in Combat
The final part of this build is using dogs. When you cannot apply poison to an approaching enemy in time, you can have your dog hold them in place. The hellhound perk can enhance the success rate of the intimidating warrior. Moreover, since you need full-body armor to maintain deterrent power, the dog's barking perk can attract enemy attention, allowing you to stealthily find angles to attack.
Conclusion
In summary, the foundation of this build is the slow-down effect of puppet poison, which enhances the archer's performance through archery and potions. In the later stages, you rely on perks like seeker, war cry, and bowyer for a total of a 45% damage increase, along with some armor penetration. The use of poison, bleeding status, intimidating warrior, and hellhound greatly increases the probability of enemy surrender. A quick shot followed by a shout can force enemies to surrender or flee slowly, with many even succumbing to poison while attempting to escape, making this build far more convenient than close-combat war cries.
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