Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27083746-20160326213304/@comment-5398287-20160326214225

How is thy query unfounded? Let me count the ways:


 * 1) Quincies don't naturally know how to form bows and arrows and use them properly. They need instructors in the form of other Quincies, which in this scenario would be Uryu or Ryuken, neither of whom are readily available to sit down with Ichigo and teach him Archery 101 in the middle of a bloody war like this one. There's also Old Man Zangetsu, to be sure, but at the moment he's retreated to let the real Zangetsu act as Ichigo's power source.
 * 2) Ichigo's greatest asset has and will always be his Shinigami powers. Everything else simply builds on or adds to those - Hollow, Fullbring, and Quincy aspects. His Quincy powers would indeed make him stronger, but only in conjunction with his Shinigami powers.
 * 3) There's no way in hell that a Heilig Bogen and Heilig Pfeil are going to be more powerful than two swords and Getsuga Tenshō, otherwise known as the "fuck everything in this general direction" beam. He can attack at both close- and mid-range, which is what the Sternritter can also do with their Spirit Weapons. Are you really gonna tell me a Reishi arrow will be more powerful and effective than a gigantic screaming blast of Reiatsu?

tl;dr Ichigo's Shinigami powers already make him the f*cking strong