# Bow Skill Tree Overhaul
###### tags: `combat`

## Playstyle:
- Skirmishing
- Firing Modes
- Consumables for arrow effects

### Niche:
- Ranged, flexible effects

### Primary Ability:
- Charge shot
- Faster charge, lower projectile speed

### Secondary Ability:
- Charge shot
- Slower charge, higher rate of damage increase

### Skilltree groupings
- Consumable arrow effects
- Fire arrow
- Causes burning on entities
- Converts "burnable" surfaces to "fire"
- Use living embers
- Ice arrow
- Causes frozen on entities
- Converts "wet" surfaces to ice
- Use icy shard (fang)
- Poison arrow
- Causes poisoned on entities
- No terrain effect
- Use venom sacs
- Electric arrow
- Arcs between targets
- Travels through "wet" surfaces
- Use ~~dwarven battery~~{new item by Gemu}
- Impact arrow
- Poise/knockback on target
- No terrain effect
- Use stones
- Ensnaring arrow
- Ensnares targets
- Adds vines to "dirt" surfaces
- Use lively vines
- Or/with option of sticky thread?
- Explosive arrow
- Explosions
- Use bombs
- Vortex arrow
- AOE pull
- Use ~~glowing remains~~{new item by Gemu}
- Sentient arrow
- Arrows can gradually redirect themselves towards targets
- Use sentient seeds
- Abilities
- Piercing shot
- Pierces through entities, allowing multiple to be hit (and also for terrain to be hit)
- Terrain effects are "directed" forward rather than radial
- Scatter shot
- Shoots multiple arrows simultaneously in a spread
- Line shot
- Shoots multiple arrows simulatenously in a (horizontal?) line
- Rapid shot
- Shoots multiple arrows in quick succession
- Volley shot
- Shoots multiple arrows simultaneously with a heavy arc
- Pinning shot
- "Pins" entity to terrain
- Redirect
- Knock melee attacker aside (if melee attack) and roll
- Rebound
- Knock attacker away at melee distance
- Rend
- Pull arrow out of target, causing a bleed
- Pin cushion
- Self buff ability that causes increased damage (and other effects?) on targets with multiple arrows in them
- Hunter's walk
- Self buff ability that increases stealth and multiplies precision power
- Ends early on receiving damage?
- Firing modes
- Hunting mode
- M1 the same with reduced movement speed penalty and no energy regen on hits
- M2 increase increase maximum charge duration and damage ceiling, faster projectile speed (similar ramp of damage and projectile speed)
- Power mode
- M1 increase damage, but have energy drain on charging
- M2 full movement speed penalty, fast energy drain, significantly increased damage ceiling, faster projectile speed

### Misc
- "Regular" arrows have no limit
- Special arrows consume crafting ingredients, some ingredients may give multiple arrows per item
- Can apply effects to terrain
- Special arrow gives effects per ability
- No combining effects, using multiple queues most recently used to front
- Any abilities that fire multiple arrows per ability should have diminsihed effects
- Limit maximum duration charged attacks can be held (i.e. energy drain past a certain duration)
- Alternatively increase inaccuracy past point (or add "jitter")
- Add inaccuracy as default to attacks