Hello,

Can anyone in the community confirm that the Khajiit Carnage melee bonus will actually apply to bows as well?

At least one site is reporting that it is.

Any others who can confirm? or can cite other sources?

Thanks in Advance.

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Is bow a melee weapon?

Not in my world. According to Tamriel Foundry the designers consider it a physical weapon, and therefore will receive the melee bonus. That doesn't seem accurate...thus my question to the community, if it is the Khajiit become the perfect bow/assassin and Bosmer becomes ho hum.

Personally, I think Carnage will get tweaked (down) sooner or later. Same with a couple of other racials - a lot of the racial abilities are effectively meaningless at higher levels, meaning that after the relatively short level grind some races receive benefit while other races don't.

I don't think they'll go the other route of buffing other race's racial abilities. That runs counter to the apparent design concept.

Seriously? No, it's not.

You can use it to swing at someone, but there's a big chance your bow will break before your opponent does.

i don't think it actually was a question

This is a serious question based on information from other sites. The conventional definition of melee clearly precludes it, but Tamriel Foundry indicated the designers deemed it physical damage, therefore the bonuses apply. That doesn't make sense to me, that is why I was hoping someone could confirm.....versus speculate.

This was my question and from alot of test people are saying carnage effects all bow abilities as well as melee magic abilities like Vielled Strike. Now this skill could be ajusted to make it not efefct bow as alot of people have been bringing this to Zenimaxs attention. But as of right now it does efefct bow.

Bosmer still has other archer advantages. he has stamina regain instead of health regain which most damage dealers would prefer (especially archer sitting far away in distance safety) bosmer also has 3% more stamina bonus. keep in mind more stamina equal more bow damage. Yes khajiit will crit harder but every non crit from the Bosmer would do a little more damage compared to Khahiit. Also along with 3% more stamina they have some big poison and disease resist. nice vs enemy catapults throwing those meat bags which u see at every keep seige

If that's the case, that TF is correct, then it's a tooltip error that needs correction and needs to be adressed. And btw, there should be plenty more stuff that's not working as the tooltip says it does