Brutal arrows are supposed to be effective against undead, but they only affect Zogres and Chompies. A potential solution would be to give brutal arrows a +5% damage and accuracy bonus to undead enemies, possibly stacking additively with the Salve Amulet for a potential total of +25%. Could see niche use for low level accounts or special builds.
#Brutal Arrows Give Undead Bonus
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tawdry hearth
Interesting take for this old content.
Would be neat
sturdy quarry
Feels like it would be DoA considering the bows but I don’t see why not
chilly niche
The whole idea was that sharp arrows would pass through or ricochet when shooting Skogres, so you needed something blunt to transfer the energy. They're not extra effective, they just don't fail like normal arrows.
cedar trail
Sithik Ints: The undead creatures usually manifest some sort of disease so it's best to attack them from a distance with a ranged weapon.
Sithik Ints: Normal missiles like arrows and darts do very little damage to them because they're designed to destroy internal organs. This is a waste of time with undead creatures like undead ogres.
Player: Yeah, clearly so what should we use?
Sithik Ints: From my research it looks like a flat ended arrow was designed called a 'Brutal arrow'. This does large amounts of crushing damage to the creature. You can make them by using larger arrows.
mellow dawn
Skeletel Wyverns have high ranged defense. And when you ask a slayer master for tips about them, they say it's due to arrows just passing right through them.
This would be one place where it would make sense for brutal arrows to be effective. But skeletal wyverns aren't considered "undead".
Just a thought.
deep beacon
Maybe brutal arrows could do crush damage?