Better Scaling for Bows
Increases the stat scaling on every bow in the game, so as to make them actual weapons and not status effect machines.
You might have found yourself disappointed that the only viable to play an archer in Elden Ring was to spam blood/frost arrows with barrage. You are not alone friend, I too wish bows were a lot stronger than they are. Since I wasn’t able to find a mod that did this, I decided to quickly whip one up myself!
I can’t promise that this mod is totally balanced, so if you find that the stats on a particular bow are for whatever reason absurd, let me know and I’ll possibly upload an update with balance changes.
Installation:
First, if you have not already, set up Anti-cheat toggler and offline launcher. It should go without saying, but playing online with this mod active will almost certainly result in a ban.
If you’re not using any other mods that affect ‘regulation.bin’, congratulations! All you have to do is replace that file in your ‘ELDEN RING/Game/’ directory with the file from the zip in Option 1 of the downloads section, and you’re done!
If you are using a mod that affects ‘regulation.bin’, you will need to use Yapped to merge your ‘regulation.bin’ with this mod’s ‘EquipParamWeapon.csv’ from Option 2 in the downloads section (if you receive an error during the importing step, try downloading version 1.08 of Yapped instead). More detailed instructions are available as a pdf in the zip file of Option 2.
If you are using a mod that affects ‘regulation.bin’, and it affects ‘EquipParamWeapon’, unfortunately you will likely need to manually set the scaling values yourself in Yapped. If there are are any better methods for this situation, please let me know. On the plus side, you only need to do this for the bows you plan on using.
Altered Scalings:
Shortbow
str 17 > 25
dex 17 > 25
Misbegotten Shortbow
str 26 > 50
dex 16 > 20
Red Branch Shortbow
str 14 > 20
dex 26 > 50
Harp Bow
dex 15 > 60
Composite Bow
str 15 > 40
dex 28 > 40
Longbow
str 20 > 40
dex 26 > 60
Albinauric Bow
str 15 > 20
dex 35 > 80
Horn Bow
dex 26 > 40
int 10 > 50
Erdtree Bow
str 12 > 20
dex 15 > 30
fth 30 > 50
Serpent Bow
str 15 > 20
dex 30 > 60
Pulley Bow
str 27 > 50
dex 27 > 50
Black Bow
str 18 > 25
dex 26 > 80
Lion Greatbow
str 30 > 50
int 0 > 25
Golem Greatbow
str 45 > 75
Erdtree Greatbow
str 20 > 30
dex 15 > 20
fth 30 > 50
Greatbow
str 30 > 50
dex 30 > 50
