Runic Bow

Overview

A bow with no quiver. Conjure the Runic Bow from runes, feed it Mana instead of arrows, and every shot strikes as Ethereal — once you have Arcane Syntax, casting it again with the bow in hand looses a Banishing Shot.

Rune combination

Everything is cast with Egoth → Shim, the opposite of Conjure Blade. What you get depends on Arcane Syntax and whether the Runic Bow is already out:

Runic Bow

• Each shot costs 5 Mana and a small amount of Stamina — no normal arrows needed
• Deals 32 Ethereal damage and 10 Impact damage
• Lasts 180 seconds once conjured; a status effect indicates the bow is active
• The Runic Arrow is conjured on the first draw, is not consumed by shots, and vanishes with the bow
• If Runic Prefix is learned, the conjured bow is automatically infused with Greater Ethereal Imbue, raising it to 50 Ethereal damage

Banishing Shot

• Powerful magical shot capable of banishing your foe beyond the veil
• Deals 2.0x the Runic Bow's Ethereal damage and 1.5x its Impact damage
• Banishes the enemy for 30 seconds — locked, untargetable and invisible while it lasts
• On release the enemy resumes exactly what it was doing, as if nothing had happened
• Visual and sound cues quicken as the banish nears its end
• Reloading a save while an enemy is banished releases it immediately, rather than starting the 30 seconds again
• Does not banish bosses

Compatibility

• Requires Custom Effects
• SideLoader Extended Effects is optional — with recent versions an imbue covers the whole bow, rather than sitting as a sphere at the grip
• Should be compatible with any mod that touches runic magic as long as the Egoth → Shim combo is available
• Not compatible with Sinai's Mana Bow

Thanks and credit

• This work is an homage to Sinai's Mana Bow — please check out the original mod!
• Thanks to Sinai for all their incredible work
• Thanks to Joh-Benji and Proboina for all the help they have given me!
• Thanks to my dear friend Rogismund who goes through the most tedious co-op sessions to check online bugs alongside me
• Thanks to the entire modding community that has restlessly made (and is making!) my favourite game go from epic to legendary

Contacts

• Join our Outward modding community discord server
• If you have any bug to report or you want to give feedback, here's my discord workshop channel

2.0.2

• Fixed the Runic Arrow sometimes staying in your pocket instead of going back to the quiver, after being dragged out or displaced by another arrow

2.0.1

• Fixed bosses and unique enemies being banished — they and the enemies placed with them now resist it, but the shot still deals its damage
• Fixed DoTs not damaging banished enemies, so they can now die before returning

2.0.0

• Added a new advanced combo: Banishing Shot
• Added the Banished status effect
• Added visual effects when the Runic Bow is conjured
• The Egoth → Shim combo now has different results depending on Arcane Syntax and whether the Runic Bow is already out
• The Runic Bow is now a proper conjuration: it cannot be dropped, and it vanishes when unequipped, like the Runic Blade
• The Runic Bow now survives a save and reload, like the Runic Blade — conjuring before you log off is no longer wasted
• The Runic Arrow is now conjured on the first draw, and re-equipped immediately if unequipped or replaced — no blank draw needed
• No longer requires Permittivity-NPC_Weapons or SideLoader Extended Effects; requires Wrango-Custom_Effects instead

1.3.0

• Fixed the Runic Bow status effect lingering after a reload, when the bow itself did not survive it
• Fixed the mod not loading when installed with r2modman

1.2.0

• The Runic Arrow is now re-equipped automatically with a new draw — equipping other ammunitions forces a swap
• The Runic Arrow is now destroyed when the bow leaves your inventory, whether dropped or expired
• Fixed the arrow occasionally outliving the bow when it had been re-conjured mid-cast

1.1.0

• Fixed the nocked arrow being invisible to other players in co-op, in both directions
• The Runic Arrow is now conjured with the bow and equipped once, lasting 180 seconds — prevents the arrow from disappearing while nocked
• The bow now only accepts the Runic Arrow; it will not draw with other ammunition equipped
• Mana is now only spent by the player actually shooting
• Fixed "Not enough Mana." notification to show only once per nocking attempt if mana is below 5
• Rune: Shim is now patched additively, it no longer conflicts with other mods that extend the same rune, as long as the Egoth → Shim combo is free

1.0.0

• Initial release