Still doesn't excuse how it's an outlier relative to other dwarven stuff. Would've been cool if the dwemer had a light armor set that matched the bow, since I don't see a dwarven heavy armor wearing soldier ever using a normal bow
If you clicked on this video expecting an actual comparison with stats go to Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages then click on Skyrim Archery. It's really hard to say which is best because the ones that have the highest base damage tend to be the slowest. Also different bows have different trajectories so it kinda depends on what your style is. Also with smithing and enchantments you can basically make the base damage irrelevant.
yes we are when we click on a vid and expecting a Stat breakdown and get a Beauty contest, we be upset. like homie up top said, i get my Values Elder scroll skyrim info from UESP
The swords in Skyrim look either more like blunt objects you'd use for training or fragile pieces of metal that look like it'll shatter if you actually use them.
With the Ruins edge I wish they would math the detection level. Eye on the bow closed when hidden. Searching have it slowly blinking looking left and right slowly. When found it’s eye has surprising look, looking around frantically
@@dankmemelord414 This specific flaw is less them not caring about the game and more sony preventing them from doing anything more impressive. Everything after ruins edge? Yeah the team completely gave up afterwards but ruins edge and before were all varying levels of great but limited by sony.
The Supple Ancient Bow is one of my favorites. Just the idea of having that in my inventory makes me feel more bad ass. I love the looks and knowing that one of my possible Nord ancestors may have used it.
Since you seem to be including the Stuff from Anniversary Edition, I have a suggestion for when you get to 1 handed swords; Torment. A Daedric Longsword that you pry out of the hands of one of Dagon's top Dremmora IN THE BADLANDS!
Your video looks nice and slick, but I found light on the content/analysis. The weird iron thing on the Ancient Nord Bow can be used as a natural aiming point when not using a crosshair (while standing). Look for natural aiming points on other bows. All spikes on bows would be useful for bashing (in real life, anyway.) Still, a very slick presentation and your idea of doing "rankings" is a winner.
Missing: Zephyr (unique compound bow in the Aetherium questline), Dark Bow (complement to the Golden bow in CC - maybe considered a duplicate of Golden??)
Also now that I've watched this far: it gives you 20% faster draw and invisibility for 30 seconds every time you put it in your hand and does not need recharging with souls
Im a fan of the Glass Bow. Its a simple design but it does look like its a Real high quality bow. So I still use it even though there are higher danmging bows. I perfer light armor anyways too so it works out
The Daedric Bow in Morrowind was probably the most bad ass Bow design Elder Scrolls ever had. That thing looks like you could use it as a double sided sword/a Swallow. I'd love to see it come back and make it so that if you do the Bow bash, it does some legit damage.
there is this mod called "real bows" that changes everything making it for me anyway a must have because the native bows of Skyrim are as you have pointed out clunky and impossible looking and I love archery and the look of a well made recurve bow is a thing of beauty to me
I would have to say my only complaint is the exact complaint I have about all bows in Skyrim and most games in general, functionally none of them would shoot an arrow more than a few feet cause none of them bend, the string isn’t what give a bow its power, it’s the limbs pulling the string forward. I agree with the Nordic bow being beautiful, and if could make a bow irl like that I would, but the thick steel limbs would prevent it from bending much if at all
every playthrough i use bound bow. dont want to buy arrows? you're good. want to soul trap on kill? you're good. want to banish deadra? you get the point....its good.
I just used a restoration loop blacksmith weapon upgrade to a dark seducer bow because I couldn't find a bow I liked. One shot kill on everything when I get annoyed. Still have yet to find that bow with increased fire rate.
The stalhrim bow has one flaw I cant Unsee, the Part were u knock the arrow, it is to Low, take a Look at it all other bows are more elevated at that Part, becuase obviously Ur Hand is on the grip, meaning the arrow rests further up on the hand so this part needs to be higher to, wich means the arrow on the stalhrim bow is knocked into the string Not the Part made for it
While the Forsworn Bow is ugly (looks like grasshopper legs tied together with knotted hemp), it is a good bow and always my go-to early game. You can always pick up one at either Kolskeggr mine or Broken Tower Redoubt in the Reach.
It's not on your list, but crossbows are technically bows, too, and should have had at least an honorable mention. The longbow is a simple straight bow, such as the Celts and Native Americans used hundreds of years ago. The hunting bow introduces the recurve limbs which added additional power to your shot. The Nordic bow looks to be a compound "take-down" bow, and THAT'S the template I feel they should have used for the Dwarven bows. Say what you will about the Forsworn bows, they are the best early-on bow you can get, if you can lay your hands on one, because of their base 12 damage, as opposed to the longbow's base 6 and the hunting bow's base 7. This can be a real game-changer until you can find or smith a better bow yourself; and it only takes a steel ingot to temper.
I can't agree with your take on yhw dwarven bow. As you've said, dwarves are all about function and practicality, but they also take immense pride in their craft. Y'know what they wouldn't do because of these traits? Put structural weak points on their bows for the sake of aesthetics. It's a simple recurve bow that could easily be mass-forged with some molten metal and molds in a factory. Solid and reliable, just like all their other weapons.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say you struggled to stave off the draw to make those puns, well tillered as they are. They do improve, almost like a character arc(hery). Okay I'm just compounding the problem, I should recurve my awful puns, fletching as I find them, as they may be bodkin some here. Anyway, must bolt! Arrows.
I noticed you never mentioned the imperial 🏹 bow and at the bottom of my list don't have one but I have heard from other people saying this i don't know yet that the long bow 🏹 is the hardest to use i just use the bound bow free arrows and also noticed you did mention the invisible bow either
So does this mean you'll remake all the other rankings to add the creation club stuff?..... because the madness set in my opinion has one of the best weapons sets in game
Though one might take issue with your apparent thicc-ness-based bow-dy shaming, I find your content compelling. Your obvious intimate knowledge of the in-game implements precludes reducing your commentary to mere arch shots, though further apparent is your arch bent…yada yada yada, arch-ery. Consider me compelled.
All the bows are 0/10 because I’m left handed Amber bow looks more like real life ebony wood which I find very ironic Had a good chance to say “this bow puts the ass in Glass” lol I continue to enjoy disagreeing with your picks lol, Nordic now looks a bunch of iron planks bolted together for me
Don’t forget Nord hero this time:…u promised me….. You kept that promise…and gave me a shout out???my man Also you missed zephyr, and here’s a suggestion ….a video about crusader gear
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7:39 "dwemer bow looked elven to me" that might be because Dwarves were elves, they're literally named DweMERS.
Which iirc translated to “Deep Elves”
Still doesn't excuse how it's an outlier relative to other dwarven stuff. Would've been cool if the dwemer had a light armor set that matched the bow, since I don't see a dwarven heavy armor wearing soldier ever using a normal bow
Making it more mechanical like a compound bow would have been cool considering the dwarves made big awesome killing machines......
@@shrek6869 great point actually
If you're adding weapons from the anniversary, you missed the Dark bow, and all the other weapons from the previous category.
Yea at least he got em 😊
If you clicked on this video expecting an actual comparison with stats go to Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages then click on Skyrim Archery. It's really hard to say which is best because the ones that have the highest base damage tend to be the slowest. Also different bows have different trajectories so it kinda depends on what your style is. Also with smithing and enchantments you can basically make the base damage irrelevant.
Are you mad cuz he didnt mention stats??
@@jacobc8019 Title is RANKED not PRETTIEST
@@dfgyuhdd yes fair enough he didn’t really rank them
@@jacobc8019 they're ranked in order of visual appeal, that's why they're numbered in descending order.
yes we are
when we click on a vid and expecting a Stat breakdown and get a Beauty contest, we be upset.
like homie up top said, i get my Values Elder scroll skyrim info from UESP
That intro was PUNishment. 11/10 work
Yea he didn't miss
🎉
“‘nock’ out” was my favorite
“All the bows seem too thick.”
I mean…a lot of stuff in Skyrim is just a little too thick. Like many characters’ skulls.
Yeah, skyrim people didn't get all the way to homo sapien they made it to like cro magnun
The swords in Skyrim look either more like blunt objects you'd use for training or fragile pieces of metal that look like it'll shatter if you actually use them.
I can’t unsee the golden bows 💈 barbershop handle
Now I can’t unsee it either…
The Dwarven Black Bow of Fate looks more like a Nightingale Bow than the actual Nightingale Bow 💀
Its definitely more intimidating
With the Ruins edge I wish they would math the detection level. Eye on the bow closed when hidden.
Searching have it slowly blinking looking left and right slowly.
When found it’s eye has surprising look, looking around frantically
That would require them to actually give a shit about the game.
@@dankmemelord414
This specific flaw is less them not caring about the game and more sony preventing them from doing anything more impressive.
Everything after ruins edge? Yeah the team completely gave up afterwards but ruins edge and before were all varying levels of great but limited by sony.
The Supple Ancient Bow is one of my favorites. Just the idea of having that in my inventory makes me feel more bad ass. I love the looks and knowing that one of my possible Nord ancestors may have used it.
I thought that the nightingale bow was literally a clone of the ebony bow
Since you seem to be including the Stuff from Anniversary Edition, I have a suggestion for when you get to 1 handed swords; Torment. A Daedric Longsword that you pry out of the hands of one of Dagon's top Dremmora IN THE BADLANDS!
“Once again, I tried to think of a dwarven joke, but this time…. i came up short.”
Short!? That's going in the book umgi!
I think they make bad bows ugly because it would feel real shit of a bow with 10 dmg look cool but a now with 100 dmg looks boring
why would the falmer care what their bows look like? They're blind
Would you mind making a crossbows ranked list? It would be pleasant
25 bows here, with creation club stuff.
I wanna see you rank the weapons in ESO next…. It’ll probably turn into a top 10 list.
Joke is he missed multiple bows
Your video looks nice and slick, but I found light on the content/analysis. The weird iron thing on the Ancient Nord Bow can be used as a natural aiming point when not using a crosshair (while standing). Look for natural aiming points on other bows. All spikes on bows would be useful for bashing (in real life, anyway.) Still, a very slick presentation and your idea of doing "rankings" is a winner.
My brother and I came for the Bow Ranking. I subbed because of your capacity for puns.
Glad you enjoyed them!
@@RogueRanks Thanks for your videos. Skyrim is always in the back of my mind, next to Dragon Age. Always begging me to play 'em again.
Missing: Zephyr (unique compound bow in the Aetherium questline), Dark Bow (complement to the Golden bow in CC - maybe considered a duplicate of Golden??)
The ruin's edge bow looks almost monster hunter inspired
Very MH thats true!
10:55 You forget to mention that there are engravings on the dwarven blackbow of fate that glow every few seconds, which is a nice detail👍🏻
The puns are always top tier
Just started a bosmer archer playthrough, this is great timing
The bow of shadows was doing some great work for me minus the invis effect glitching later on
Also now that I've watched this far: it gives you 20% faster draw and invisibility for 30 seconds every time you put it in your hand and does not need recharging with souls
One if my favorites is the bow from the Hammerfell Armory mod. It was some nice artistic touches without being crazy in basic design.
I'll check it out!
@@RogueRanks It’s actually an old mod coming from Oldrim to SE but always in my load order, the shields are excellent as well as the swords
Im a fan of the Glass Bow. Its a simple design but it does look like its a Real high quality bow. So I still use it even though there are higher danmging bows. I perfer light armor anyways too so it works out
The Daedric Bow in Morrowind was probably the most bad ass Bow design Elder Scrolls ever had. That thing looks like you could use it as a double sided sword/a Swallow. I'd love to see it come back and make it so that if you do the Bow bash, it does some legit damage.
I was scrolling to the end to see the best bow but then I see you put ruins edge at 24?!?!? That has to be my favorite bow by far
@@jacobc8019 ?
The beauty of a bow is in the eye of the beholder. I agree with Nordic bow being #1. It's my main weapon in current playthrough.
This is the youtube content we need
Unpopular opinion, my favourite is the Long Bow, looks natural looking
The eye on Ruin's Edge also blinks and moves around
there is this mod called "real bows" that changes everything making it for me anyway a must have because the native bows of Skyrim are as you have pointed out clunky and impossible looking and I love archery and the look of a well made recurve bow is a thing of beauty to me
Ooh I'll check it out
The Nordic bow actually looks like a modern take-down recurve bow. Bada$$ed!
please keep making more skyrim videos !
Love these kind of videos! Would be cool to see this in ESO as well 😂
I would have to say my only complaint is the exact complaint I have about all bows in Skyrim and most games in general, functionally none of them would shoot an arrow more than a few feet cause none of them bend, the string isn’t what give a bow its power, it’s the limbs pulling the string forward. I agree with the Nordic bow being beautiful, and if could make a bow irl like that I would, but the thick steel limbs would prevent it from bending much if at all
I like nordic weapons and armor a lot, but my favorite is ancient nord set.
hot take
Hunting and long bow are great for role playing for me
Oh, those puns!
I see you're learning from the one who should not be named. Beware, for he's touched by Sheogorath.
this list is beyond perfect
Zephyr. No contest
Agree
HONEY WAKE UP
ITS ANOTHER RANKING VIDEO
Great video. New Skyrim player. New sub here 🙌🏻
Every time i watch one of your videos i forget about the puns
top tier word play got you a new sub!
For me it's how much Damage it inflicts, asthetics for me comes last, the Elven Bow is for thalmor Traitors as well.
Nordic over black dwarven and nightingale is crazy
The nordic weapons and armor are just peak.
The Falmer Bow is a great very early game weapon if you come across one without dying
Ah man, do Greatswords next! Please!
Coming soon!
@@RogueRanks hell yeah
Do armor worst to best
every playthrough i use bound bow. dont want to buy arrows? you're good. want to soul trap on kill? you're good. want to banish deadra? you get the point....its good.
I just used a restoration loop blacksmith weapon upgrade to a dark seducer bow because I couldn't find a bow I liked. One shot kill on everything when I get annoyed. Still have yet to find that bow with increased fire rate.
Chaurus jaws plied together would make a gnarly daedric esque bow
You can really “string” together some great jokes 😉
You should rank arrows too in a separate video
The stalhrim bow has one flaw I cant Unsee, the Part were u knock the arrow, it is to Low, take a Look at it all other bows are more elevated at that Part, becuase obviously Ur Hand is on the grip, meaning the arrow rests further up on the hand so this part needs to be higher to, wich means the arrow on the stalhrim bow is knocked into the string Not the Part made for it
Thr oblivion ebony bow was the best bow design in the series.
While the Forsworn Bow is ugly (looks like grasshopper legs tied together with knotted hemp), it is a good bow and always my go-to early game. You can always pick up one at either Kolskeggr mine or Broken Tower Redoubt in the Reach.
I have a mod that makes all the bows thinner, makes the Ebony Bow smexy af!
Within 15 seconds I already liked the video because I respect the puns!!
crossbow next!
I think, with the dwarven bow, it would’ve been cooler if it was more like a compound bow
That would've made way more sense
The nordic bow is fucking awesome, it looks so good, i hate theres not any uniques using the skin
Great, fun list! But ACE-thetic? Try ESS-thetic.
Damn, your puns are on point!
Personally, I rank the ancient Nordic bow even than ruins edge
Tbf to the dwarven bow, in TES Dwarves are literally elfs.
Their actual species name is dwemer, which translates to deep elf.
FOR THE EMPEROR!! Sorry, sorry, you engaged the Space Marine in me. Wait... there are ways to play Skyrim other than stealth archer? Hm, who knew.
It's not on your list, but crossbows are technically bows, too, and should have had at least an honorable mention. The longbow is a simple straight bow, such as the Celts and Native Americans used hundreds of years ago. The hunting bow introduces the recurve limbs which added additional power to your shot. The Nordic bow looks to be a compound "take-down" bow, and THAT'S the template I feel they should have used for the Dwarven bows. Say what you will about the Forsworn bows, they are the best early-on bow you can get, if you can lay your hands on one, because of their base 12 damage, as opposed to the longbow's base 6 and the hunting bow's base 7. This can be a real game-changer until you can find or smith a better bow yourself; and it only takes a steel ingot to temper.
Glass bow i think makee some sense if you consider that malachite probably had no fexibility
Phenomenal intro, and always love to see some Falmer hate :)
Man you gotta nock off those archery puns
I can't agree with your take on yhw dwarven bow. As you've said, dwarves are all about function and practicality, but they also take immense pride in their craft. Y'know what they wouldn't do because of these traits? Put structural weak points on their bows for the sake of aesthetics. It's a simple recurve bow that could easily be mass-forged with some molten metal and molds in a factory. Solid and reliable, just like all their other weapons.
i would give my life for puns. i already love the vid :>
I just stick with a long bow the whole. I find that satisfying. It doesn't seem to make a huge difference.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say you struggled to stave off the draw to make those puns, well tillered as they are. They do improve, almost like a character arc(hery). Okay I'm just compounding the problem, I should recurve my awful puns, fletching as I find them, as they may be bodkin some here. Anyway, must bolt! Arrows.
The bof of shadows is cool because it shows daedric is more than just mall ninja edgy stuff.
The Explosion was necessary at 5:09
I noticed you never mentioned the imperial 🏹 bow and at the bottom of my list don't have one but I have heard from other people saying this i don't know yet that the long bow 🏹 is the hardest to use i just use the bound bow free arrows and also noticed you did mention the invisible bow either
The Nordic Mace is based on a Ram.
Dude wake up, rogue ranks just made a new rank
Black bow of fate + Nightingale armor
i think the dwarven bow could look more like Auriel's bow and i would be fine with it
i feel like the 2 crossbows should have been included in this video
Okay.
Now let's see you rank them by effectiveness.
3:57 classic dodge moment
Do arrows, yes ARROWS, next
You missed Firiniel’s End, Zephyr bow and Madness bow
So does this mean you'll remake all the other rankings to add the creation club stuff?..... because the madness set in my opinion has one of the best weapons sets in game
The puns, man. So horrible and so funny
How do you like the uniq bow named bow of the hunt `?, That is a bow you left out. and is in skyrim. In a secret cave
The first place pick should be unanimous
casually admitting to maybe being a furry on a bow tierlist was not anythign i ever expected
Uh oh, my character is a stealth archer again... :(
Though one might take issue with your apparent thicc-ness-based bow-dy shaming, I find your content compelling. Your obvious intimate knowledge of the in-game implements precludes reducing your commentary to mere arch shots, though further apparent is your arch bent…yada yada yada, arch-ery. Consider me compelled.
All the bows are 0/10 because I’m left handed
Amber bow looks more like real life ebony wood which I find very ironic
Had a good chance to say “this bow puts the ass in Glass” lol
I continue to enjoy disagreeing with your picks lol, Nordic now looks a bunch of iron planks bolted together for me
This Intro really targeted the right audience
ESO perfected the function vs fashion with some of their bows.
Also, the longbow is atrocious. It’s just a plank of wood. A literal 2x4 bit of pine
Don’t forget Nord hero this time:…u promised me…..
You kept that promise…and gave me a shout out???my man
Also you missed zephyr, and here’s a suggestion ….a video about crusader gear