COMPOUND BOW
COMPOUND BOW is a bow in WARDOGS, firing Standard Arrows. It weighs 1.3 kg. It costs $1,350 and unlocks at Recon Lvl 17. On the tier list it is B tier.
Details
- Category
- Bow
- Price
- $1,350
- Share of $10,000 budget
- 14%
- Unlocks at
- Recon Lvl 17
- Unlock cost
- $75,000
- Rewards
- Recon XP
- Weight
- 1.3 kg
- Tier list
- B tier, #26 of 37
Weapon stats
- Rate of fire
- 90 rpm
- Fire modes
- Semi
- Muzzle velocity
- 160 m/s
- Effective range
- 60 m
- Accuracy
- 0 mrad
- Deviation
- 4°
- Melee damage
- 35
- Suppression
- ×1
The platform's own figures from the game files, before any attachment moves them. 1 mrad is about 10 cm of spread at 100 m.
In-game vendor card
COMPOUND BOW
Bows
1.3 kg
$1,350
- –Pull & Release
- –Standard Arrows
RewardsRecon XP
Silent and deadly.
“Sometimes you need to go back to basics.”
Reach Recon Lvl 17
Unlock: $75,000
The vendor's own card, as shown in the Closed Alpha. The level it opens at and the one-off unlock come from a progression snapshot dated 2 September 2026, and are reported rather than confirmed.
At $1,350 the COMPOUND BOW is 14% of a full loadout budget, leaving $8,650 for everything else you carry. What a complete kit costs.
What “Recon XP” means on that card
WARDOGS has no fixed classes. Progression runs on six XP tracks, and Bulkhead has confirmed they are earned by using specialist gear rather than picked from a menu — so the REWARDS line is not flavour, it is the rule. Carry the COMPOUND BOW and the XP goes to Recon, whatever the rest of your loadout is doing.
That makes the vendor tab a progression choice as much as a combat one. Every weapon we saw in the alpha pointed at exactly one track, and the tracks split along the vendor tabs: rifles fed Assault, SMGs fed Medic, shotguns and LMGs fed Support, everything long-range fed Recon.
Which is the argument for picking a weapon by what it leaves you rather than by what it does: what a full kit around the COMPOUND BOW costs decides whether the track is affordable to grind, and where the COMPOUND BOW lands once cost is the tiebreak is a different question from raw damage.
Six tracks and gear-driven progression are confirmed by Bulkhead. Which weapon feeds which track is our Alpha 1 reading, and it can change.
Also earns Recon XP
Different vendor tabs, same progression track — carry any of these and the XP goes to the same place.
Guides that cover the COMPOUND BOW
Where this weapon sits in the game
Where the COMPOUND BOW ranks
The tier list, and why cost decides it more than damage does.
Complete builds by what they cost
What a full kit around this weapon leaves in the balance.
Every weapon we have recorded
The full Closed Alpha roster, by category.
What a round actually pays
One complete payout, line by line, and the loadout refund on death.