Why do archers start with a point in slings..

[dis astranagant]

But not start with a sling and bullets?

[Tharsonius]

they do - press Q

[Lorcanis]

also you can remove the point in the skill, or simply disable auto-assigning starting skill in the options

[overgoat]

they do - press Q

To be fair, I played the game for a year before I realized that!

[Isotope-X]

they do - press Q

To be fair, I played the game for a year before I realized that!

Hah! I figured that out in less than a year.

It only took me 7 or 8 months.

[overgoat]

Since more than a few us didn't realize this would it maybe make sense to put the sling and bullets in the inventory to start instead of the alternate weapons slot?

[The Revanchist]

In all fairness... Weapon swapping is used in the tutorial. That virtually nobody seems to remember. It has a lot of the basics, though.