Fire arrows aren't much better.when you shoot a fire arrow, they will have a little flame circle that each subsequent arrow adds to, when it reaches its max the machine will respond to being on fire, which gives you a chance to either move further away, or switch to something with more damage while its doing its little fire dance.
I don't believe there's a such thing as playing a game the wrong way.
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