Nord Crossbow

Nord Crossbow

An incredible force is bound to this weapon, waiting to be unleashed.
Type	Crossbow
Damage	264 Pierce
Stamina	-
Block	3 block armour
Weight	1.5
Durability	300
Crafting Station	Frost Foundry
Station Level	-
Crafting Materials	1x Cast: Nord Crossbow 5x Liquid Frost
Biome	Deep North
Spawn ID	`spawn CrossbowGold`

Nord Crossbow is the crossbow of the Deep North. It deals 264 pierce before the bolt is counted, more than any crossbow from before the Deep North. Instead of crafting it outright at a forge, you pour a cast around a mould found in the biome and then harden it in a Frost Foundry.

How to Craft

You make it in a Frost Foundry from:

1x Cast: Nord Crossbow: poured at a level 4 Black Forge from Bloodgold, Timberwood and its mould.
5x Liquid Frost: frozen down from Ice in a Frigid Kiln.

Name	Image	Biome	Crafting Station	Spawn ID
Cast: Nord Crossbow		Deep North	Black Forge	`spawn CrossbowGoldUncooked`
Liquid Frost		Deep North	Frigid Kiln	`spawn FrozenFuel`

Mould

You find the Mould: Nord Crossbow in the Deep North:

It drops from the trash piles you smash in the Winding Tunnels.
It lies in the buried chests at Memorial Sites.
It sits on the weapon stands on the last floor of Mörkhalla.

When to Use It

This is end-game gear: you can only progress through the Deep North once Fader is dead.

Upgrades

You can upgrade it twice at the Black Forge. Each step needs the station one level higher than the last: the first costs the per-level amount and the second costs twice that. Quality 4 would cost four times the per-level amount, but it needs a level 7 Black Forge, above the forge's current maximum of 6, so that row is not yet available.

Quality	Crafting Station	Pierce	Durability	Resources
1	Frost Foundry	264	300	1x Cast: Nord Crossbow 5x Liquid Frost
2	Black Forge (Level 5)	272	350	10x Bloodgold 5x Timberwood
3	Black Forge (Level 6)	280	400	20x Bloodgold 10x Timberwood
4	Black Forge (Level 7, not yet available)	288	450	40x Bloodgold 20x Timberwood

Variants

Weapon	Damage	Elemental Damage	Essence	Spawn ID
Nord Crossbow	264 Pierce	-	Base weapon	`spawn CrossbowGold`
Frostfire Crossbow	232 Pierce	12 Fire, 88 Frost	Frostfire Essence	`spawn CrossbowGold_FrostFire`
Thunderblood Crossbow	274 Pierce	45 Lightning	Thunderblood Essence	`spawn CrossbowGold_BloodLightning`

Properties

A loaded crossbow fires for no stamina and holds its bolt as long as you like. Swapping weapons empties it, though, and a sprint or a jump throws away a half-finished reload.

Ammunition damage is added to the launcher's base damage before any other damage calculation, so the bolt's damage is multiplied along with the crossbow's.

You load it, then fire. You can hold a loaded bolt as long as you like, and firing costs no stamina.

It gives -5% movement speed while it is in your hands.

At quality 1 it deals 264 pierce damage, 264 in all. Root Ripper and Storm Ripper, jointly the hardest-hitting weapons of their kind before the Deep North, deal 230 at quality 1, so the Nord Crossbow hits 15% harder. Each upgrade adds 8 pierce, which takes it to 280 pierce, 280 in all, at quality 3.

Its hits knock enemies back with a force of 210.

It weighs 1.5 and has 300 durability, rising to 400 at quality 3.

Against the creatures of the Deep North, pierce deals full damage to Elakings, the Eyeless One, Deep North Greydwarves and their Shamans, Hexen, Captive Fulings, Imprisoned Dvergr and Moose. It deals reduced damage to Barka, Fallen Warriors, Gammeltrolls, Skeletons, Krigen, Shapeless and Tiny Pulps and Kall Fimbulbringer.

Because quality 4 needs a level 7 Black Forge, above the forge's current maximum of 6, it stops at quality 3 in practice.

Crafting it from scratch and taking it to quality 3 costs 50 Bloodgold and 25 Timberwood, plus a mould and 5 Liquid Frost.

Notes

Reforging it into its Frostfire or Thunderblood version resets the new weapon to quality 1, so add the essence before you pay for upgrades.
Once it reaches its last quality level, the Forge of Potential can push it further with a Bloodgold Battle Idol.

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All Crossbows

*stats displayed are item's base values. See upgrades under each item for item stats per level.

Name	Pierce	Elemental Damage	Stamina	Durability	Crafting Materials	Crafting Station	Spawn ID
Arbalest	200	-	1	50	10x Wood 8x Iron 4x Root (item)	Black forge	`spawn CrossbowArbalest`
Ripper	220	-	1	50	10x Ashwood 8x Flametal 2x Morgen sinew 4x Bonemaw tooth	Black forge	`spawn CrossbowRipper`
Wound Ripper	220	-	1	50	1x Ripper 8x Flametal 1x Bloodstone	Black forge	`spawn CrossbowRipperBlood`
Root Ripper	220	10 Poison	1	50	1x Ripper 8x Flametal 1x Jade	Black forge	`spawn CrossbowRipperNature`
Storm Ripper	220	10 Lightning	1	50	1x Ripper 8x Flametal 1x Iolite	Black forge	`spawn CrossbowRipperLightning`
Frostfire Crossbow	232	12 Fire, 88 Frost	-	300	1x Nord Crossbow 20x Bloodgold 1x Frostfire Essence	Black Forge	`spawn CrossbowGold_FrostFire`
Nord Crossbow	264	-	-	300	1x Cast: Nord Crossbow 5x Liquid Frost	Frost Foundry	`spawn CrossbowGold`
Thunderblood Crossbow	274	45 Lightning	-	300	1x Nord Crossbow 20x Bloodgold 1x Thunderblood Essence	Black Forge	`spawn CrossbowGold_BloodLightning`