Oh I know they can crit, I'm just saying they're not default crits, which I thought they were for a long time.
The main story will get you to every region in the map (except 3 which get pushed by the DLC). Each region has min recommended levels
Headshots used to be, but they got nerfed because Ubisoft doesn't want you to have fun. Now you have to hit people in the head with arrows a bunch of times before they go down, even as someone speccing Hunter.
Yeah yesterday I sold all my hunter gear and will never touch that build again. Even after rebuilding so that my gear was headshots and vanilla crits, I still couldn't headshot gold enemies 3 levels below me. Fuck that. They nerfed hunter into nonexistence. It's crazy how OP warrior and assassin are, but nope cannot have hunters one shotting enemies, might break the game. :rollseyes
There are some fun aspects of hunter and they can be powerful, but not in the traditional way you'd expect. You can even be stealthy without the OHK headshot potential on strong enemies, but it's pretty tedious. It just really fucking annoyed me to spend so much time min-maxing (I thought) a build that wasn't viable in the way I was intending. Fortunately respec is very easy. Assassin and Warrior are both super OP if you specialize.
I didn't find the additional damage from fire or poison really impressive, it's mostly chip damage, handy if you fighting a group of enemies were few have health bars with only a sliver remaining. Poison has at least the added benefit of lowering enemy attack power. In the end I ended up with using poison engravings on my melee weapons. You can than use craftable fire arrows (hunter ability) to use on burning down war supplies, or use a bow that turns normal arrows into fire arrows.
Fire, so long as you're good at not setting yourself on fire as well lol
It's more because I'm lazy... though I used the melee torch attack for most of the game... Arrows have longer distance than torch toss, saving you the equipping torch action (which constantly brought up Ikaros, but that might be more the fault of the d-pad), and I couldn't be arsed to manually light them on fire.
Is this referring to the controversial moment in the DLC? Because I was waiting to see what they were gonna do with that before playing.
Paris's Bow
New Game + is unlocked when you finish the family questline, you still have the cult/first civilization questline left to do though.
You can just go wild at sea and don't board ships, just ram them until they sink and you can loot plenty of wood per ship. Shouldn't take long to gather 30k wood that way. I didn't feel like grinding to max out my ship that way, but ymmv.
Dozens. Ha. I'm currently sitting at 141 hours. Though at this point I only go back when new quests or DLC content is added.
