The Frost Archer

Previous Lore

"It's a good idea to spread out. Ashe can hit five birds with one arrow." - Tryndamere

One of the perennial favorites of summoners in the League of Legends is the Freljordian beauty known as Ashe. She is a direct descendant of File:ProfileIcon Avarosan.png Avarosa - one of three legendary sisters who each claimed dominion over the scattered tribes dwelling in the icy tundra of northern Valoran.

Ashe mirrors her ancestor's unparalleled mastery of the bow, earning her the title of 'the Frost Archer' the way Avarosa did during her era. Ashe is a literal Princess amongst her people, though she prefers to be addressed by outsiders as her tribal title rather than any form of royal moniker.

There are those in Freljord, however, that would prefer to address Ashe as 'the late Frost Archer'. The File:ProfileIcon Winter's Claw.png other File:ProfileIcon Frostguard.png two tribes that are descendants from the Three Sisters are historically sworn enemies of Ashe and her people. Having survived more than one assassination attempt in her life, Ashe is always aware of her surroundings regardless of where she is.

Ashe originally came to the Institute of War in service of the League summoners, seeking enough influence and favor to finally bring peace to her realm - one that has endured civil strife since Avarosa and the Time of the Three Sisters. With countless victories under her belt, she has started to put the influence she has earned in the League to use.

Rumors abound that Ashe has begun to associate herself with fellow champion Tryndamere outside of the Fields of Justice. While she denies such talk as frivolous, all eyes will remain on Ashe now that her success in the League may finally allow her to restore lasting peace to her people.

Previous Abilities

Focus

Focus

If Ashe has not attacked in the last 3 seconds, she gains Focus stacks per second. At 100 stacks, Ashe will Template:Cctip on her next basic attack. Thereafter, Focus stacks will reset to an amount equal to her critical strike chance.

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Targeting input	Focus is a self-targeted buff.

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Frost Shot

Frost Shot
COST:	8 mana per basic attack

Toggle: Ashe enchants her basic attacks with ice, Template:Cctip her targets for 2 seconds.

Slow: 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 35%

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Targeting input	Frost Shot is a toggle with an on-hit effect.

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Volley

Volley
COST:	60 mana
COOLDOWN:	16 / 13 / 10 / 7 / 4
RANGE:	600 / 57.5º
SPEED:	2000

Active: Ashe fires 7 arrows in a cone, dealing physical damage to each target hit. Each arrow will only hit one enemy, and each enemy will only be hit by one arrow. Volley also applies the current rank of Frost Shot, regardless of whether it is toggled on or not.

Damage Per Arrow: 40 / 50 / 60 / 70 / 80 (+ 100% AD)

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Targeting input	Volley fires is a linear, collision skillshot with a conic area of effect component.
Damage type
Type	Area damage
Type	Area damage
Sub-type	Physical
Sub-type	Physical
Counters
Projectile	Blocked
Projectile	Blocked

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Hawkshot

Hawkshot
COOLDOWN:	60 / 55 / 50 / 45 / 40
RANGE:	2500 / 3250 / 4000 / 4750 / 5500 / 1000

Passive: Ashe gains 3 each time she kills a unit or destroys a structure.

Active: Ashe sends a hawk spirit toward the target location, granting Template:Cctip of its path for 2 seconds and in a large radius at its destination for 5 seconds. The hawk's sight is not obstructed by brush or terrain.

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Targeting input	Hawkshot's passive is an on-kill effect. Hawkshot's active is a ground-targeted area of effect.
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Projectile	Blocked
Projectile	Blocked

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Enchanted Crystal Arrow

Enchanted Crystal Arrow
COST:	100 mana
COOLDOWN:	100 / 90 / 80
RANGE:	Global / 250
SPEED:	1600

Active: Ashe fires a giant arrow in a straight line. If it hits an enemy champion, it will deal magic damage and Template:Cctip that champion for -2.5 seconds, based on the distance the arrow traveled.

Magic Damage: 250 / 425 / 600 (+ 100% AP) Splash Damage: 125 / 212.5 / 300 (+ 50% AP)

Nearby enemies take half the damage and are Template:Cctip by 50% for 3 seconds.

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Targeting input	Enchanted Crystal Arrow is a global, linear, collision skillshot with an area of effect component.
Damage type
Type	Area damage
Type	Area damage
Sub-type	Magic
Sub-type	Magic
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Projectile	Blocked
Projectile	Blocked

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Plentiful Bounty (1st E) Ashe passively gains bonus gold each time she kills a unit.

Aimed Shot

Double Shot

Pierce

Pierce Armor

Velocity Shot

Previous Quotes

Upon Selection

• ▶️  File:"Smart choice!" OriginalCircle.png

Attacking

•   File:"Freeze!" OriginalCircle.png
•   File:"Right between the eyes!" OriginalCircle.png
•   File:"My aim is steady." OriginalCircle.png
•   File:"He wants some of this?" OriginalCircle.png
•   File:"We must press on!" OriginalCircle.png
•   File:"Agreed!" OriginalCircle.png
•   File:"Swiftly now!" OriginalCircle.png

Movement

•   File:"Agreed!" OriginalCircle.png
•   File:"We must press on!" OriginalCircle.png
•   File:"He wants some of this?" OriginalCircle.png
•   File:"My aim is steady." OriginalCircle.png
•   File:"Swiftly now!" OriginalCircle.png

Taunt

•   File:"Take a good look; it's the last you're going to get." OriginalCircle.png

Joke

•   File:"No, really, put that apple on your head." OriginalCircle.png

Laugh

•   File:Ashe laughs. OriginalCircle.png
•   File:Ashe laughs. OriginalCircle.png
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Previous Splash Art

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1st Classic Ashe

2nd Classic Ashe

1st Freljord Ashe

2nd Freljord Ashe

1st Sherwood Forest Ashe

1st Woad Ashe

1st Queen Ashe

2nd Queen Ashe

1st Marauder Ashe

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1st Classic Ashe

2nd Classic Ashe

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Freljord Ashe

Sherwood Forest Ashe

1st Woad Ashe

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2nd Woad Ashe

Queen Ashe

Patch History

V6.21

• Ranger's Focus
  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where rapidly pressing Q the instant Focus reaches four stacks could cause Ranger's Focus's mana cost to apply multiple times.

V6.20

• Frost Shot
  • Base slow changed to from .
  • Critical strikes slow increased to from .
  • New Effect: Critical strikes slow now decays to the base slow value over the first half of the slow duration.
• Ranger's Focus
  • New Effect: Instead of fully resetting Ashe's basic attack, casting Ranger's Focus reduces her basic attack delay to 40% of the full value (no reduction if the delay is already below 40%). If Ashe's delay between basic attacks is 1 second, casting Ranger’s Focus brings that delay down to 0.4 seconds for the next attack.
  • Active's damage per arrow reduced to 21 / 22 / 23 / 24 / 25% AD from 23 / 24 / 25 / 26 / 27% AD.
    • Total damage per flurry reduced to 105 / 110 / 115 / 120 / 125% AD from 115 / 120 / 125 / 130 / 135% AD.

V6.18

• Volley
  • Cooldown increased to 15 / 12.5 / 10 / 7.5 / 5 seconds from 12 / 10 / 8 / 6 / 4.
• Enchanted Crystal Arrow
  • Bug Fix: PROJECT: Ashe's Enchanted Crystal Arrow no longer explodes slightly earlier than Ashe's other skins upon hitting an enemy champion.

V6.17

• Ranger's Focus
  • Duration reduced to 4 seconds from 5.
• Enchanted Crystal Arrow
  • Base damage reduced to 200 / 400 / 600 from 250 / 425 / 600.

V6.4

• Ranger's Focus
  • Flurry duration increased to 5 seconds from 4.
  • New Effect: Stacks now decay one every 4 seconds, instead of all at once.

V5.24

• Ranger's Focus
  • Maximum stacks reduced to 4 from 5.

V5.23

• Ranger's Focus
  • Bug Fix: Template:Cctip were only being calculated once per flurry instead of once per arrow.
  • Bug Fix: Runaan's Hurricane was only triggering once per flurry
    • New Effect: While consuming Focus stacks, Runaan's Hurricane will fire frost-colored bolts.

V5.22

• Stats
  • Base attack damage increased to 56.51 from 51.89
  • Attack damage growth reduced to 2.26 from 2.85
  • Base mana increased to 280 from 231.8
  • Mana growth reduced to 32 from 35.
• Frost Shot
  • Slow reduced to from .
  • Removed: Template:Cctip against Frosted targets.
  • New Effect - Critical Slow: Ashe now has a 1% chance per 1% of her critical strike chance to double Frost Shot's Template:Cctip to and trigger Template:Cctip. The slow decays to the standard amount over the duration.
    • Volley will always trigger the enhanced slow versus champions.
• Ranger's Focus
  • removed: Cooldown
  • removed: Casting at less than 5 Focus stacks.
  • removed: Volley and Enchanted Crystal Arrow granting Focus stacks. Basic attacks only.
  • removed: 20% increase of Frost Shot's Template:Cctip.
  • Activation consumes all Focus stacks and Ashe will not generate stacks while the effect is active.

V5.12:

• Focus
  • No longer generates multiple stacks per enemy hit by Volley / Enchanted Crystal Arrow - now only up to one per cast.

V5.11:

• General
  • Recommended items updated.
• Ranger's Focus
  • The 5-stack flurry attack no longer triggers on attacks against turrets.
• Volley
  • Base damage reduced to 20 / 35 / 50 / 65 / 80 from 40 / 50 / 60 / 70 / 80.
• Hawkshot
  • Vision radius while traveling reduced to 1000 from 1500.
  • Hawks update their vision more frequently as they travel.

V5.9: Gameplay rework.

• Stats
  • Basic attack's projectile speed increased to 2500 from 2000.
  • Attack speed growth reduced to 3.333% from 4%.
• Frost Shots - Repurposed Ability
  • New Innate: Ashe's basic attacks and abilities apply Frost to enemies damaged, slowing them by % for 2 seconds. Ashe's basic attacks against frosted units always critically strike, dealing 「 10 + (X * (1 + Y))% AD bonus critical damage, where X is her critical strike chance and Y is her bonus critical strike damage (both in decimal format) 」「 10% AD bonus critical damage, plus an additional 1% AD for every 1% of her critical strike chance that is modified by 1% for every 1% of her bonus critical strike damage 」. Ashe cannot otherwise critically strike.
  • Notes:
    • Frosted targets are distinct from Slowed targets - only Ashe's Frost Shot can trigger the bonus damage. Other slows don't trigger it.
    • Ashe's empowered attacks (even the base 10% AD with no crit chance) are classified as critical strikes for gameplay purposes and will trigger effects such as Frenzy and Reinforced Armor. As such, it is also not applied by Runaan's Hurricane.
    • Here are examples on the behaviour of Frost Shot's bonus damage. None of the following considers the 100% AD base damage from basic attacks.
      • Infinity Edge will deal 40% AD bonus damage (10 + (20 ×  (1 + 0.5)).
      • Adding a Phantom Dancer increases the aforementioned to 92.5% AD bonus damage (10 + (55 ×  (1 + 0.5)).
      • With 100% critical strike chance and Infinity Edge's bonus critical damage, you will deal 160% AD bonus damage (10 + (100 ×  (1 + 0.5)).
      • Probable Bug: Critical strike damage from runes is stacking multiplicatively with Infinity Edge, rather than additively, for a maximum of 228.265% bonus damage (10 + 100 × 1.5 × 1.4551).
• Ranger's Focus - New Ability
  • Passive: Ashe gains a stack of Focus for 4 seconds whenever she slows an enemy, stacking up to 5 times. Ashe will not generate stacks while Ranger's Focus is on cooldown.
  • Active: Ashe consumes all Focus stacks to gain 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40% bonus attack speed and increases Frost Shot's slow strength 「 by 20% 」「 to % 」 for 4 seconds. If Ashe consumes 5 stacks of Focus on activation, Ranger's Focus will also cause each of Ashe's attacks to fire a flurry of five arrows, dealing 「 23 / 24 / 25 / 26 / 27% modified attack damage with each arrow 」「 a total of 115 / 120 / 125 / 130 / 135% attack damage on each empowered attack 」. The flurry will stack multiplicatively with Frost Shots, will benefit from life steal and triggers on-attack effects five times, but on-hit effects are only applied once.
  • Cost: 50 mana
  • Cooldown: 18 seconds
  • Notes:
    • The multi-attack effect is similar to Lightslinger and Double Strike, except that on-hit effects aren't applied by the extra attacks.
    • Triggering On Attack Effects multiple times is intentional. - namely, Runaan's Hurricane and Pix. Note that Pix's cannot attack more than twice per second.
      • On-hit effects are disabled on the latter four attacks and will not be triggered even by Runaan's minor bolts. As such, the item's 10 on-hit damage is only applied by the first attack.
      • Runaan's splash damage is affected by the damage modifier - dealing 「 10 (+57.5 / 60 / 62.5 / 65 / 67.5 AD) damage per flurry 」「 11.5 / 12 / 12.5 / 13 / 13.5% AD damage per arrow (+ 10 on the first) 」 to secondary targets.
    • As with Headshot, attacks against structures will refresh the timer on Focus but will not generate new stacks.
    • The multi-attack effect will work on structures - i.e. you will plink towers faster than Jinx.
• Volley
  • Arrows increased to 9 from 7. Radius is unaffected.
  • Cost reduced to 50 mana from 60.
  • Cooldown reduced to 12 / 10 / 8 / 6 / 4 seconds from 16 / 13 / 10 / 7 / 4.
  • New Effect: Targets can now intercept multiple arrows, but will take no damage from arrows beyond the first. Arrows beyond the first will still generate Focus.
• Hawkshot
  • Passive gold generation removed.
  • Range increased to Global from 2500 / 3250 / 4000 / 4750 / 5500.
  • New Effect: Now works with a stock system, able to hold up to two charges.
    • Static cooldown implemented at 5 seconds.
    • Recharge time increased to 90 / 80 / 70 / 60 / 50 versus the current 60 / 55 / 50 / 45 / 40 cooldown.
• Enchanted Crystal Arrow
  • No longer innately slows, but will apply Frost Shots' slow.
    • Slow percentage effectively reduced to (+20% during Ranger's Focus)% from 50%.
    • Slow duration effectively reduced to 2 from 3.

V4.17:

• General
  • Texture update to Classic, Amethyst, Freljord, Queen, Sherwood Forest, and Woad Ashe.

V4.5:

• Stats
  • Base armor increased to 15.5 from 11.5.

V4.2:

• New ability icons.
• Hawkshot
  • Passive gold changed to 3 from 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5.
  • Cooldown reduced to 60 / 55 / 50 / 45 / 40 from 60.

V3.13:

• Enchanted Crystal Arrow
  • Mana cost reduced to 100 from 150.

V3.10:

• Focus
  • Focus stacks per second increased to 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 from 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7.
  • Fixed a bug where Focus was granting stacks while on cooldown in certain situations.

V3.8:

• Focus
  • Ashe now gains 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 Focus stacks every second while not attacking instead of gaining critical strike chance.
  • Ashe will critically strike on her next basic attack when she reaches 100 Focus stacks.
  • Initial Focus stacks are equal to Ashe's critical strike chance.

V3.5:

• Focus
  • Now displays the critical strike chance bonus on the buff bar.

V3.03:

• Stats
  • Attack speed per level increased to 4% from 3.4%.

V3.02:

• Focus
  • Is no longer consumed when attacking wards.

V1.0.0.152:

• Stats
  • Base movement speed increased to 325 from 300.

V1.0.0.148:

• General
  • Tooltips have been updated.

V1.0.0.142:

• Hawkshot
  • Now displays the correct buff icon.

V1.0.0.140:

• Art update:
  • New model for Template:Csi.
  • Updated and improved models for Template:Csi, Template:Csi, Template:Csi and Template:Csi.
  • All new animations for base and skins.
  • Updated splash art.
• Hawkshot
  • Now displays total gold retrieved by the skill in the tooltip.
• Adjusted Frost Shot's projectile speed to match the basic attack projectile speed.
• Fixed a bug where Frost Shot's attack frame was slower than the basic attack.

V1.0.0.133

• Stats
  • Base health increased to 474 from 438
  • Base armor increased to 14.9 from 12.7
  • Mana per level increased to 35 from 27
• Volley
  • Cooldown reduced to 16 / 13 / 10 / 7 / 4 seconds from 20 / 16 / 12 / 8 / 4.
• Enchanted Crystal Arrow
  • Now grants vision while in flight.

V1.0.0.125:

• Frost Shot
  • Fixed a bug where mana was not draining properly.

V1.0.0.123:

• Frost Shot
  • Fixed a bug where it would consume mana if Ashe canceled her autoattack early.

V1.0.0.121:

• Ashe's Hawkshot
  • Added minimap range indicator.
• Enchanted Crystal Arrow
  • Slow duration reduced to 3 seconds at all ranks from 3 / 4 / 5.
  • Cooldown increased to 100 / 90 / 80 seconds from 75 at all ranks.

V1.0.0.116:

• Frost Shot
  • Changed the general frost slow particle to significantly reduce frame lag.

V1.0.0.111:

• Updated tooltips for Ashe.

V1.0.0.102:

• Template:Csi splash art updated.

V1.0.0.97:

• Focus
  • Now displays a buff showing how much extra crit chance Ashe has.

V1.0.0.94(b):

• Volley
  • Range reduced to 1200 from 1300.
  • Damage reduced to 40 / 50 / 60 / 70 / 80 from 40 / 55 / 70 / 85 / 100.

V1.0.0.94:

• Frost Shot
  • Slow changed to 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 35% from 10 / 18 / 26 / 32 / 38%.
  • No longer stacks with Volley.
• Volley
  • Bonus damage increased to 40 / 55 / 70 / 85 / 100 from 40 / 50 / 60 / 70 / 80.
  • Attack damage scaling reduced to (+ 100% AD) from (+ 150% AD).
  • Now fires 7 missiles instead of 9.
• Plentiful Bounty renamed to Hawkshot:
  • Hawkshot retains the passive gold gain on kill and can now be activated to shoot an invulnerable, untargetable scouting hawk toward a target location. The hawk will reveal terrain as it travels, and grant vision of the end area for 5 seconds.
• Enchanted Crystal Arrow
  • Fixed a bug where it was slowing for too long at ranks 2 and 3.
  • Fixed a bug where it was stunning for more than the maximum stun duration.
  • Distance required to get a maximum duration stun increased.

V1.0.0.87:

• Volley
  • Fixed a bug where it was slowing more than it should.
  • Fixed a bug allowing Volley and Frost Shot slow to stack.

V1.0.0.86:

• Enchanted Crystal Arrow
  • Fixed a bug causing the hit sound not to play.

V1.0.0.82:

• Volley
  • Fixed a bug that allowed Ashe to hit the same target with multiple arrows.
• Enchanted Crystal Arrow
  • Fixed a bug where it was slowing attack speed.

V1.0.0.63:

• Volley
  • Fixed a bug where it could hit a target multiple times per cast if the target was immune to buffs.
• Enchanted Crystal Arrow
  • No longer reveals Ashe to enemies that cannot see her.

V1.0.0.61:

• Enchanted Crystal Arrow
  • Damage reduced to 250 / 425 / 600 from 300 / 500 / 700.
  • Max stun duration reduced to 3.5 seconds from 4.5.
  • Slow duration changed to 3.5 / 3.5 / 3.5 seconds from 3 / 4 / 5 seconds.

V1.0.0.32:

• Updated particles.

V0.9.25.34:

• New loading screen image.
• Updated critical strike animations.

V0.9.22.15:

• Frost Shot
  • Slow increased to 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 35% from 10 / 17 / 24 / 31 / 38%.
• Volley
  • Damage increased to 40 / 50 / 60 / 70 / 80 from 15 / 30 / 45 / 60 / 75.
  • Fixed a bug where it was slowing by too much.
• Plentiful Bounty
  • Bonus gold reduced to 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 from 1 / 2 / 3 / 5 / 7.
• Enchanted Crystal Arrow
  • Improved accuracy.

V0.9.22.7:

• Enchanted Crystal Arrow
  • Max stun duration reduced to 4.5 seconds from 5.
  • Now applies slow to the primary target (for when the stun duration is low).
  • Added a minimum stun duration of 1 second.

V0.8.22.115:

• Plentiful Bounty
  • Gold gain reduced from 1 / 2 / 4 / 6 / 9 to 1 / 2 / 3 / 5 / 7.
• Enchanted Crystal Arrow
  • Damage reduced to 300 / 500 / 700 from 350 / 550 / 750.

June 26, 2009 Patch:

• Frost Shot
  • Will no longer damage spell shields.
• Volley
  • Cone is now locked to Ashe.
• Enchanted Crystal Arrow
  • Fixed a bug where its targeting was erratic at close range.

May 1, 2009 Patch:

• Frost Shot
  • Slow reduced to 10 / 17 / 24 / 31 / 38% from 10 / 18 / 26 / 34 / 42%.

April 25, 2009 Patch:

• Volley
  • Fixed particle bug.
  • Made cone reticle match closer to the way the arrows spread.
• Accumulate Wealth renamed to Plentiful Bounty
  • Bonus gold reduced to 1 / 2 / 4 / 6 / 9 from 2 / 4 / 6 / 8 / 10.
  • Added the toggle spell glow.
• Updated Ashe's recommended items.

April 18, 2009 Patch:

• Enchanted Crystal Arrow
  • Damage increased to 350 / 550 / 750 from 250 / 425 / 600.
• Updated animations updated for Volley to make it easier to use.

April 11, 2009 Patch:

• Accumulate Wealth
  • Bonus gold now shows above your character.

Alpha Week 7:

• Volley
  • Cone radius reduced to 1300 from 1600.
  • Fixed a bug where it was applying Frost Shot with an incorrect slow percentage, and gaining extra damage from ability power.
• Enchanted Crystal Arrow
  • Damage reduced to 250 / 425 / 600 from 350 / 525 / 700.
  • Now stuns the hit target for up to 5 seconds, and deals half damage and slows nearby targets by 50% for 3 / 4 / 5 seconds.
  • Can now be targeted via the minimap.

Alpha Week 6:

• Accumulate Wealth
  • Corrected tooltip.

Alpha Week 5:

• Enchanted Crystal Arrow
  • Now triggers a stun particle.

Alpha Week 4:

• Focus
  • Now charges for a maximum of 5 instead of 3.
• Plentiful Bounty
  • Renamed to Accumulate Wealth.
  • Grants 2 / 4 / 6 / 8 / 10 bonus gold whenever Ashe kills a unit.
• Enchanted Crystal Arrow
  • Cooldown increased to 75 seconds from 65.

Alpha Week 2:

• Fixed tooltip typos for Frost Shot and Enchanted Crystal Arrow
  • Tooltips now accurately reflect the actual abilities.
• Increased projectile speed of basic attacks and Frost Shot, and Enchanted Crystal Arrow.
• Frost Shot
  • Mana cost reduced.
  • Slow effect increased.
• Volley
  • Damage per arrow increased, but reduced the maximum number of arrows that can hit a single target.