Talk:Lich/@comment-188.110.64.29-20181024194914/@comment-8506165-20190514223025

For purposes of determining what they can hit? Yes, they absolutely do.

I've tested this exhaustively: they definitely don't count as normal weapons. You can prove this by either casting Protection from Normal Weapons/Missiles and attacking with Arrows of Dispelling:

https://i.imgur.com/TdNPArT.png

Or by attacking something immune to normal weapons with Arrows of Dispelling. I used a Lich here, seeing as it's the focus of the discussion here:

https://i.imgur.com/nOZN2mq.png

They do, however, count as magical in some way - you can prove this by casting Protection from Magical Weapons and attacking:

https://i.imgur.com/OqgP7Xd.png

So they're clearly "magical", but determining the enchantment level for purposes of whether they hit or not is harder. For this I spawned in a Stone Golem (requires +2 or better to hit) and attacked with AoD:

https://i.imgur.com/xFPXQJy.png

All screenshots taken from BG2: EE, most recent patch. Maybe in the originals the Arrows behaved differently; I seem to recall they were the same, but as of the most recent EE edition they definitely behave this way. Test yourself if you don't believe me, but I've got no mods added that would change the way they behave.Yoshimo is using a mundane shortbow for all these screenshots, so that makes no difference. They gain no bonuses to hit or damage, so they're not actual "+1 arrows" in that sense? But they can definitely hit things that a +1 weapon or better is required for.