Low-tier Bows

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T2 stats are:
Weight1
Spd rtng
83Thrust damage23
Shoot speed
43Accuracy99

vs proposed
Weight1
Spd rtng76
Thrust damage29
Shoot speed47
Accuracy99

Seems pretty different to me, either way the model is of a yew longbow - making it vastly different than the normal longbow just doesn't make any sense.

And it is not different from T3 besides the +2 damage.

All you are suggesting is a slightly stronger Longbow, which is accessible earlier, in the end.

Maybe I am at fault for not clearly illustrating my problem and outlining my suggestion in my original post.

I will be more clear.

Currently archers without access to House Crafts or Legendaries only have one upgrade path to choose from:
+Damage
-Speed Rating
+/-Shoot Speed
99Accuracy

All the bows low-tier Archers can obtain are only from the Marketplace, there are NO low-tier bows craftable.

All other classes besides Archers have choices of weapons from the Marketplace, AND early craftable weapons.

My suggestion is:
1) To add low-tier craftable bows to the Blacksmithing lists,
and
2) to scale them on a different upgrade path, in other words, change from this formula:
+Damage
-Speed Rating
+/-Shoot Speed
99Accuracy
to something else.

Your suggestion merely copy-and-pasted the Longbow, but with +2 Damage, and is accessible earlier.

Like I iterated in an earlier post, we already have craftable arrows for minor damage increases.

I am indifferent on when it is accessible; as long as it can be wielded by a Heavy Longbowman(T3), at the very least, to keep it in line with being low-tier.

I am suggesting that new crafted bows have significantly different statistic prioritization than what is already on the Marketplace; as an example: prioritizing Speed Rating while sacrificing Damage and Accuracy.

And as for "making sense", I believe that prioritization falls on balance instead of "making sense"; not that my suggestion is nonsensical or unbelievable by any means.

We have anime swords in this mod.