Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-35456756-20180723191320/@comment-26553378-20180723203849

ArcenGamer wrote: SWVWC wrote: I recently went to Lothlorien. I had 1,000 plus alignment with Gondor, but had not met the elves until, while in Rohan trying to up alignment with them too, A Galahadrhim wanderer entered the area. I could not trade, however, as the Elves did not know me. So, I went to the Golden Forest, hunting for Quests. After several minutes of lagging about, and listening politely as the Elves made depressing statements, I finally got a quest to Kill some Dol Guldur orcs. Suffice to say, it was not enough alignment to trade. But it was enough to use their crafting table. I made a Malorn bow, and took it to Mordor... WHERE I GOT DECIMATED. The bow had no special buffs or nerfs, but it was still a SIX shot kill, nearly three times more shots than a Gondorian bow. So... it needs a BIG buff I completely agree. Mallorn Bows in the books were made out to be this special weapon of the elves and it was even given to Legolas as his gift from Galadriel. The Mallorn Bow is not even as good as the Ranger Bow. I mean how does that work out?

So I completely agree except one thing: you have clearly been watching too much MindOfMike: "Galahadrhim" the reasoning is that mallorn bows are non-fac bows. loth does have its own bow which is very powerful otherwise. Other than that... mallorn is really cheap. It's more about balancing than anything else.

Also, a few things: A. Dol Guldur are in Dol Guldur, not Mordor B. Assuming you were attacking black uruks with a mallorn bow, and (presumably, if the bow was your only weapon) no armor... you're kinda supposed to get rekt. Even in some cases with lower orcs, if they get close enough for melee, an orc armed for melee, even if its normally weak, should be able to do fairly well against you if you only have a bow.