ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

Do any properties of arrows & sling bullets apply when you're not using a sling or bow? Anything useful to drop up there for a fighter or mage? I see things like "crit chance: +1.5%", but I'll bet that only applies if you're actually using the thing via a bow or sling. It probably does...

Hi all! New to this and loving it! Is there a reason for a character who only uses 2-handed weapons to use the alt-weapon slot? Seems to take just as much game time to go into the inventory and wield another weapon as it does to press 'q'. Obviously hitting 'q' is a more convenient for the player :-)