Hi there (and bows) (in New players)

I created an account a few hours ago, and this has been suprisingly addictive (a decade ago, I played with MUDs and even before that there were various PBEMs similar to this one, but this has lots of addictive feedback and progression).

Anyway, I'm confused by the ridiculous additional damage that my newest of my minion's Compund Bow seems to make (around 200 vs Magic Missile etc doing maybe 20). Is this right? I'm not sure how much damage I should be doing with magic vs ranged vs melee.

At the low end, the ranged weapons really pack a punch, but their damage doesn't scale with your experience like magic does. Bows, and all other weapons, require you to upgrade them with the money you earn, while the spells are purely experience based (other than armor bonuses).

Welcome! Bows can do a lot of damage, but require constant growth in the x department and you have to worry about enemy tanks or evasion minions dodging it. Magic missile (or MM) falls prey to several anti-mage things, like AMF and mage shield, but always hits and is easy to boost. It's a choice of which you want to try.