Modern and Strong Longbow

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I was lucky enough to regain vision in my blinded eye (took about a year and a half) but keratoconus nearly blinded me anyway a few years later. Contact lenses work for now but give it a few decades, suspect I'll be saying much the same thing.
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You're lucky. Good for you.

My blind eye has had the eyeball hogged out and replaced with a plastic ball. No hope for it. My left eye has an advanced cataract and the doctors won't operate on it to fix it. They told me if something went wrong I could end up blind and won't take the chance.

They told me to just live with it. "Thanks a lot Doc!"
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Sounds like half the doctoring in Africa. The other half is "I've never done that but sure, I'll take a crack!"

Really inspires trust :?
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The sad part is putting the ball in my right eye eyeball failed. The incision wouldn't seal back up. He operated on it 4 times and it wouldn't seal. I finally said "That's enough!" So, I have an open wound in the eye. To keep it from getting infected I have to put drops in the eye every two hours and wear a patch full time. Even sleeping. The eye has been fighting me in one way or the other for 20 years. It even took away my way to make a living. I drove an 18 wheeler truck for a living. You need 20/40 in both eyes to get a Class A license to drive a truck and you also have to get a physical every two years. The eye retired me. I never should have lost my sight in that eye. It was a bad mistake by my first doctor. I had a perfect lawsuit but I don't do that and just sucked it up.

The bad part is when I was younger I was the guy who could see better than others. Oh well.
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That sucks. An accident or disease at least is something way out of someone's control, but a doc's screw-up is... Yeah, I know the feeling on that one. First few rounds of 'eye specialists' were useless. Saving grace was that the last one was exceptional. No doubt I'd be completely blind without him.

Have you tried someone else to at least get the wound to close up? That's got to be an absolute pain to look after.
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No, I haven't because I don't want to touch the eye anymore. I can deal with the patch and drops. I need to get up and take a wizz 4 times a night anyway. :D
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I get that, when you reach that point of 'just leave it alone!' :D If it's manageable, that's fine then.
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Please for the love of Eru we need a better longbow,at the range this can penetrate double langs i could throw a spear at the animal :p

Every couple of days i take it out to hunt and every time i get sick of tracking even though i manage to hit lung from the side and another really weird thing is its louder than all bows when its common knowledge that straight limbs are the quitest.

I really cant understand what the use of this bow is,maybe shotting foxes from 40m?Otherwise the gap shooting from the grass at 20m,weak penetration and loudness of the current longbow make it not a challenge as the description says but only an annoydness.Pretty weird as i see in general all weapons are quite ballanced except this one,at least i cant see its use as of now.
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I can't agree more. The longbow was a big disappointment to me. It should be very quiet and shoot through deer.

If the devs didn't know why lighted nocks are used. It's mostly to find the arrow after shooting through the animal. Some like to see where the arrow hit but the majority use them to find the arrow buried in the ground somewhere. I don't see any bow in game get a pass through. I always got one with my longbow on deer and bear.

So, please. Quieter and way more power. Animals don't bleed out well unless there two holes. Especially, the huge puddles left in the game. (another problem)

Think about this devs. You have one hole in the animal and an arrow is sticking in it. Why would it bleed on the ground? It will bleed internally and the animal will die but there won't be a blood trail.
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Would love to see more modern traditional bows always, specially the recurve. I am a big fan of Black Widow bows:

https://www.blackwidowbows.com/
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