Crossbow and bows

[Primalfear]

Reading the description of rapid reload I got to wonder if it was like rapid fire for the bows giving an additional attack per round at the cost of the Ab?

[ShiffDrgnhrt]

What did it say it does?  There shouldnt be anything not explained...

[LORE]Rapid Reload[/LORE]

[ycleption]

I believe that rapid reload is bugged, and does only give one additional attack per round, unless it's been corrected (Can anybody confirm or deny?). There is no penalty to Attack Bonus.

[Primalfear]

okay cause right now from the description it only says that it puts it to equal the firring rate of a bow. not giving an extra attack like rapid fire does, and that's what I am wondering about

[ycleption]

Okay, loaded up a module with the layo hacks, and [strike]the feat does seem to be working as described, whether bioware fixed it or someone here did, I'm not sure:
Normally, crossbows only give one attack per round, but with the feat, it gives however many attacks you would get normally.[/strike]
So if you are normally only getting one attack per round, it will give no benefit.

[Dorganath]

It's been ages since my character used a crossbow, but the feat is -supposed- to remove the slowness of crossbows.  Without Rapid Reload, a crossbow user only gets 1 attack/round.

It's not really the same as Rapid Shot for bows, however, which has an entirely different intent.

EDIT: and yclepton with the test results.  Nice!

[Weeblie]

Isn't this one of the "to be fixed in the 1.69" patch?

Easy confirmation would be to browse the changelog for the beta patches.

[Primalfear]

Thanks so I took a good decision in not taking it then.

[ycleption]

Err.. Ok, looked into it more, and looks like I made a mistake above; although it displays on the character sheet (which, if I had looked it up before posting, I would have seen was part of what was buggy) as giving the correct number of attacks, it actually only gives one additional attack per round when you use a crossbow.
It does not give an additional attack if you would only get one attack normally.

@Weeblie, yes, the 1.69 patch is supposed to fix it (whether it actually does or not, I'm not sure)

So, apologies for misstatements above.

[Primalfear]

A so it does give an additional attack. So to make this clear, Eslar normaly has only 1 attack per round at level 9, activating this feat would give him 2 attacks per round?

[ycleption]

A so it does give an additional attack. So to make this clear, Eslar normaly has only 1 attack per round at level 9, activating this feat would give him 2 attacks per round?

No:

If your character would get one attack with a normal weapon, they only get one attack with Rapid Reload using a crossbow.

If your characters get two attacks with a normal weapon, they get two with Rapid Reload using a crossbow.

If your character gets three or more attacks with a normal weapon, they stilll only get two attacks with Rapid Reload using a crossbow..

[Primalfear]

it actually only gives one additional attack per round when you use a crossbow

kk this is what confused me in your post then.