User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 578 (I'm not gonna spoil the title like Schiffy did)/@comment-10371091-20140427135021/@comment-5398287-20140429210803

There's also the issue of how the strength of a Quincy's Heilig Pfeil vary from person to person, as evidenced with Quilge and Uryu. In the current battles, they might not be using their traditional bows and arrows, or even their Spirit Weapons, because they simply aren't strong enough to combat captains, unlike Quilge and his sheer mastery of Quincy powers. I'll stop before I go into silly speculation territory and because I might be reading too deeply into all this, but those are my thoughts on it.