Skyrim Archery Guide
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Skyrim Archery Guide, which explains how archery abilities work, how to aim, the difference between bows, how to achieve more damage with your shots, and what all of the perks do. See the following guides for additional information:
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3:58 "Aim for the knees"
Oh lord
That's why so many gaurds are no longer adventures
He gonna end a lot of adventures
If you're having problems with dragons try a fortify marksman potion.
The ingredients are
1 Juniper berries
2 canis root
3 elves ear
4 spider egg
Any 2 mixed will work.
or just use marked shout, even one word is enough
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CHEATER! You could make a fork powerful like that
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3:29 wow, that daedra can pee much further than that elf.
*I love your vids man, please come back and make TES6 prediction videos, or concepts that you think should be in the game.
Still further then nords can though.
that pic made me laugh so hard
lol
Its been 6 years
That drawing of two compared bow trajectories was epic.
Hey, I know you!
Well let's see.... I have stolen goods so...... I'M OUT!
I don't have time for this, do you?
Ok bye..... And..... *slash* assassinated.
*Little girl assaulted, 40 bounty added to Whiterun*
*Dragon killed 1000 bounty added to- wait what can we give him a bounty for this? (whispers) "yes" Dragon killed 1000 bounty added to f**** you.
It's probably been said, but the Imperial Bow is upgraded with Steel, making it a Steel Bow. I don't know exactly what your definition of a "real" bow entails, but if you properly upgrade a Hunting Bow with leather strips and put a nice Greater fire enchantment (10 pts.) on it, it can get you by until about level 18 with ease. However, if you just have to have a "real" bow, there's an Elven Bow in a case in the Companions' Mead Hall under an expert lock that you can go straight to. It's in the room where you first meet Skjor after you give Aela her shield. There's also a Moonstone node by the south wall of Whiterun, almost to the broken pillar with the chest on it. It's down on the flat, closer to the road to Valtheim. It gives it a nice little boost, even at level two. I really need a hobby, or a friend, or a goldfish. Hold me.
The Imperial Bow does not benefit from the Smith Steel perk even though it uses steal for upgrades, however, Ancient Nord bows and Forsworn bows do benefit from the perk and I'm pretty sure Hunting Bows do too even if they use leather strips to upgrade.
At time he did this video though it quite possible there where no bows benefiting from the steel perk at all and there are still no bows in the game that can be crafted by the player with only the steel perk.
Wariyaka I guess the Imperial Bow just upgrades based on your overall smithing skill then, if the perk doesn't affect it, because I know I've taken them to Epic and Legendary before. I can confirm that the Hunting Bow also upgrades to multiple levels.
Young Frankenstein Yes, I don't think the smith perks raise any caps on how high you can boost the gear just the rate at witch you do it. With strong enough smithing skill, enchantment boosts and alchemy potions you can still upgrade stuff to über-legendary without the relevant perk, it just take a bit more effort from the other boost avenues. For full playthroughs on legendary difficulty I would recommend getting at least the steel and arcane smithing perks almost regardless of build though some purer mage builds can probably do just fine without them too.
lol what are you talking about, you could beat the game on level 1 at any difficulty using an iron dagger. here you are talking about getting by with a bow until about level 18...
About time someone with intelligence records a video....well done mate
Your profile pic disagrees...
its for the haters who continue to harass us who have our own opinion...u knw mate
Vincent Chase What about the people with proper grammar?
This is the internet, we don't need to have proper grammar you angry grammar Nazi..........
Vincent Chase It's the internet, we don't need to have idiots but look at the people around us go.
Skyrim Archery Guide:
1. Aim
2. Shoot
They changed the archery damage formula to include the damage from the arrows additively with the base damage from the bow before any multipliers. The exact formula is on the wikis if people are interested. But what that means is that higher damage arrows are more significant now than they were before.
Good to know - thanks!
Real shame you stopped doing this. I'm replaying this now and I still click your content before any other.
COME BACK FOR SKYRIM REMASTERED
For maximum damage per second - find Zephyr. Greatest bow for offensive bowmen.
and have quickshot
I know this is old but auriels bow is actually much better cause it has zephyrs enchant as an invisible buff plus it also has the damage enchantment and special arrows and higher base damage.
@@smalltrashman4227 That is true. But Zephyr is basically just so much easier to get.
@@patricklee8789 That's true. One of my favorite ruins in the game.
Archery tips from a relative n00b (on XBox360):
1. If you want to cap damage to arrows, your effective range of damage is *zero* arrow bonus all the way up to Dragonbone. Zero-damage arrows (practice arrows) are available for free at Angi's, on the mountain directly above and slightly southwest of Falkreath.
2. You can recover some arrows without the 'take' command, if an enemy has hit you with them. They are automatically added to your inventory. If you can withstand a few hits, it amounts to 'catching' them. This might be effective in upgrading your damage a few points if your enemy is using superior arrows.
3. If enemies are facing you, but unaware of your presence due to sneaking, shoot the back ranks first. This will often induce enemies to turn their backs to you and increase their distance from you, increasing the duration of your effective sneaking. It may only buy you an extra second or so, but when outnumbered, that can matter.
4. The video above doesn't mention the use of poisoned weapons, especially bows. I tend to favor Ravage Health poisons for particularly healthy enemies on the first shot. It's sometimes the difference between killing and dying. I've also found uses for Slow and Paralyze poisons which don't eat up magicka or soul gem recharges on enchanted weapons.
I noted this above, but your fourth point goes well with one I use myself. I used imp stool, canis root, and deathbell to make a poison, and it created a paralysis poison that also does health damage.
Archery actually kinda sucks against dragons. At least, that's been my experience. You can fight them face to face but they'll demolish you with their magic, breath and that instant kill grab they sometimes use. But if you stay back, try to stealth and keep your distance most of the time they'll just fly around and be impossible to hit. Or they'll simply fly away altogether not even giving you the chance to even fight them. There is nothing more frustrating than wasting thirty of your best arrows on a dragon only to have them take off and fly right off into the sunset.
I use iron arrows for difficult shots, just in case if i miss. Only when i'm 100% sure of my shots i use better quality arrows.
+tarrker i can see how this would be annoying but i find it easier to just use the slow time shout and fire away with the amulet of talos and the blessing of talos you can usually shout fairly often
Dylan Medly
Yeah that's what I've been doing in more recent plays. I never really even used shouts at all until I came browsing TH-cam for stuff. The slow time shout is amazing :)
Yeah like that other guy said.I only use iron arrows or generally worthless arrows and still do fine.Also I have a companion and she face tanks the dragon for me so...
Bound Bow. Infinite Arrows. Win.
poor jordis
Only just found these vids, great work dude.
Learned about 20 useful skyrim facts watching your vids this morning.
Awesome job
PMS00 -- I just recently discovered your channel and I love your Skyrim videos. Even if they're dated (being pre-Legendary edition) they're jam-packed with really interesting information. I wish you'd come back and make more and update the out-dated ones for the Special Edition.
3:35
Dat painting!
lol skyrim pissing contest!
I wish Headshots would be a 100% Critical Hit so you actually wanna aim for the head its hard but if you can manage it you do x2 the damage instead of shot 2 shots at the chest
haven't you heard from him what critical strikes actually do in skyrim? they just increase 2x the BASE damage of the weapon that u crit with, f.ex. when u crit with weapon that has 12 dmg base but its legendary ubgraded to 100, you will only deal 2x the dmg of base value so 12 dmg x 2, and this 100 was the damage from legendary ubgrade + the base value, that means while u crit strike with that weapon you will only deal 112 dmg instead of 100
i came here to figure out how to aim better(i would always aim above my target instead of at them thinking more of arrow drop) but i learned more than i thought i wouldd... GOOD JOB
One weird thing about the bull's eye perk is that it appears to trigger when the arrow is released rather than when it hits. I have missed plenty of long shots with an archer build because my target was paralysed and fell to the ground before the arrow reached them. I don't know if this was because I was using a bound bow or if it's just the game being weird.
+Sam Otten it's happened to me too with regular bows
same here
Yeah, unfortunately the Bull's Eye perk triggers when the arrow is fired, not when it hits the target. I love the effect of the perk, but it's rather annoying missing your really long snipe shots because of how it triggers.
thats why I prefer going alchemy, not only does it give you shit tons of gold but it also gives extremely useful and powerful potions and poisons, I can make a 24 second long Paralysis poison with just canis root and Imp stool which cost less than 50 gold I believe, plus I can also make a drain health poison which my best one dioes 25 hp dmg per second for 10 seconds. alchmey can be super crazy and super useful, my only ussie with the Paralysis Poison is that it doesnt work on draugr, not like the Bulls Eye perk at least.
EDIT: just corrections
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These tips are just as useful now as 11yrs ago - thank you! Many of the tips below in the comments below are also great, it was well worth reading through them.
I hope this guy is doing okay, stil schooling me on skyrim almost a decade later.
i just loved your drawing to demonstrate the diference between a deadric bow and an elven one
Another use for the Ranger perk is that when you're carrying too much weight you can pull back your arrow to move at normal speed again to get to the next town and sell your stuff.
Why hadn't I thought this one out?!
Ranger also makes you move a tiny bit faster when aiming while over-encumbered.
Best way to get a super powerful bow to use against dragons or whatever.
Enchant a helmet, gloves, ring and necklace with fortfiy archery.
Use fortify smithing gear for making all your armor and weapons.
Use a fortify smithing for making and upgrading bows.
Enchant the bow with extra damage
Drink a fortify marksman potion just before combat.
Poison the bow with a potion.
Yeah but that makes the game boring
Just to note, after Patch 1.5, when kill cams were introduced to magical attacks and bow attacks, there is a glitch in the archery kill cam when Bullseye is enabled. When the shot would kill in one hit, the target is paralyzed before the arrow impacts, paralyzing the target and effectively enabling the target to dodge the arrow.
3:30 nailed that paint
When opponent gets close to you, you can use the shout become ethereal to charge your bow up. Pulling the string of your bow doesn't count as attack so it won't disable the shout. Utilitize this against dragons when they try to use fire or frost breath on you.
If you have lots of room to maneuver around your enemy but they caught you, use the shout fus ro dah or whirlwind sprint to get away from them. Typically useful against many opponents at once.
Hope this helps even after 8 years of skyrim release tho.
Just started playing skyrim the other day , I've got so much to Learn . But that's ok i want a real challenge , thanks for the tips .
Dave Airley8889 yes you do my friend
Dave Airley8889 hey I have a beginners tip for you
Be mindful these videos are useful but a little out of date. PMS00 is recording with the pre-Legendary version of Skyrim, so his videos are from the perspective of someone who wants to maximize their perks allotment since they were more precious before you can re-spec a skill and re-assign your perks.
Still his videos are great and you can learn quite a bit from them!
me too! It's awesome how you get better and learn more over the time. Also I started diving into the medieval flair after a while
this game isn't hard. at all. and i'm not being elitist, that's one of the main reasons why so many people like it.
notice there's a dulled star next to ranger - at first it might look like just part of the background but it's actually for a cut perk called trick shot which gives a chance to disarm enemies with your shots
just wanna say your vids are still getting love til this day :)
I explained the arrow damage. Hidden bonus does help, sure, but that fits more into sneaking. For what has the most impact in archery mechanics, it's the drawback time.
pms00! COME BACK!! :(
With the Dawnguard DLC you can make a Dragonbone bow. It's stronger and heavier than Daedric, but draws significantly faster.
You can also fletch arrows (1 ingot/dragonbone + 1 firewood = 24 arrows).
Very nice guide. Only thing I disagree with is using glitches to fortify. I like to play straight forward
Great video! I'm a master archer myself, with a Dark Elf character. I usually use Bound Bow. This is great to listen to nonchalantly when you're adventuring. Good job! Love it
im always a archer mostly cuz my fav race is a wood elf sadly there are bearly any wood elf lovers out there ):
I feel you, I'm a wood elf aswell haha
Imperial :O!!!
Wood elf
***** Redguard imperial archer/paladin. Would you consider an ebony bow heavy.
***** Ikr i give my best bow to Kharjo and he just pwns dragons. It so funny.
Im getting skyrim tomorrow and I heard Archery was a fun way to play so I checked around and found this very informative video, thank you. c:
Thanks didnt know if my arrows were diping when i shot them.
This was a very helpful video. Thank you. I'm doing this kind of build at the moment and I've been doing a couple of things wrong which you've straightened me out on. One thing you didn't mention, quiet casting can be extremely helpful with bound bow if you like playing stealth-stylee.
it should be noted that ranger affects your speed when reloading crossbows.
You forgot to mention the fact that if you quickly bash your bow directly after shooting an arrow the bash attack will do the same amount of damage as the arrow did. Very informative content though, great work overall.
Gotta increase my characters archery skills...
Your video is so in depth it was truly helpful, and I instantly subbed
if You go up the block skill tree to five times damage you can kill with a bow via bash with ease.
+Eric Draven yes.
+Eric Draven also with all bows if you have an arrow knocked you can quickly unknock it the press power bash and it will do damage instead plus no stamina lost.
+Eric Draven fastest with the crossbow. doesn't involve bash skill tree.
Something that also helps early people trying to get levels is enchanting your bow with fire damage, and making weakness to fire poisons, or whatever element you fancy, but fire will do the most damage. On top of the smithing to make the bow, you also get the experience from enchanting and alchemy, and it's a good boost to damage for until you have the perks/skills to use bows more effectively. Juniper berries have the weakness to fire ingredient thing, as do bleeding crowns, which are both easy to find and pretty cheap if you can't. Ice wraith teeth as well, if you find any.
On that alchemy note, it's actually a really good way to earn money fast, especially with the merchant perk. You can take two ingredients that are less than 10 septims each to buy, add another that's still under 20, and you can sell that potion for a huge recovery. I tend to make ones that sell for between 150 and 400 apiece, with some being able to be up to 500 or more, all with ingredients that were less than 40 each to buy, if I used three "expensive" ones, which is rare. Plus there are tons of stuff you can just find.
So I'm going to be playing the shit out of skyrim remastered and I will be playing the entire game to perfection and plan on going with the light armor. sneak, archery orc build. (the orc is just due to berserk for 15x sneak damage when stacked) is this a good choice?
Oops failed to mention taste difficulty
Yea its fine if your going for a pure archer.Do note on difficulties like Legendary(which should always be your goal as game is too easy) Archery is slightly impractical and is the 2nd worst offensive skill to rely on next to Destruction magic being the worst, and if your using a stealth build getting a follower is also impractical because they pretty much take away your stealth even if they are stealth based themselves, but without a follower unless your very skilled and experienced you will struggle horribly because your arrows will just tickle your enemies and they will kill you in one hit, so if you wanna focus on stealth remember always assault on the night, just keep clearing drougr places or even Falmer if you can manage, turn into a vampire for added stealth as you can always remove it, finally get good gear, I have played full runs of Archery only on Legendary and it can be loads of fun if you know how to use it but compared to other routes it is one of the worst.Best ones are Breton Battlemages that use a mixture of conjuration, followers, sword and shield and duel wielding Orcs that use tanky followers and/or stealth.
MISTAKEWASMADE4live legendary difficulty easy with destruction magic. Just get a ton of fortify destruction and you do insane damage casting fireball over and over or ice storm
Phooka Pica That's pretty end game stuff, I don't like boosting trade skills until the very end of the game its too easy otherwise
100% cost reduction + Impact makes the game boringly easy with Destruction.
It's not at all limited to end game; it's very easy to grind craft skills at relatively low level. The fact that crafting was so ridiculously overpowered was a massive design flaw: it trivialised the game if you used those skills (even just within the normal limits, without abusing feedback loops), but they were so useful that avoiding them was not much fun.
FANTASTIC info, thank you! A little suggestion, don't end every sentence like you're asking a question. It was quite the struggle to listen to this for 16 minutes. I'm just being honest.
Here's something:
The way that the ai in this game aims with their own bows is based on your movement speed and direction at the moment they fire. You can actually use bows to dodge arrows sometimes before you even get the Ranger perk. Hold your arrow until they fire, move to the side while you're holding it, and then fire as soon as they fire, and you can actually manage to dodge a surprising amount of the time. Makes dealing with other archers easier early on. Of course, with ranger and such, this is replaced with a better option. Still a nice way to exploit a supposed disadvantage to move speed and turning it into a strength.
Really good video, nice to know diff between heavy and light bows.
Here in 2021! Thanks for the time and love that you put into these! We all appreciate your hard work.
Nice to see my experience as an OP stealth archer is backed up by the numbers. Nothing like popping off a 3x damage shot to the face and then patiently waiting to make sure I'm not discovered. "Must've been the wind." Sir, a lot of your hp is missing and you have an arrow sticking out of your face. The wind must be a pretty deadly phenomenon in skyrim if it can launch arrows into your face.
I love these guides and how much detail you put into them.
Wow, I had no idea archery in Skyrim went into this amount of depth with the weight and trajectory.
Personally I always went with the bow that just did more damage... may have to start re-thinking my strategy :D
I'd just like to point out that the Hunting Bow benefits from the Steel Smithing perk, meaning although you can't smith your own, you can still have a decent starting light bow that scales with the rest of your equipment. It even ends up being a good bow for mid-range combat purposes due to the quick draw speed, with DPS comparable to a Glass Bow (though with nowhere near as good range, so no sniping with it).
One good way to sneak is to have the increased mobility, and the slow time perk, when raiding caves or dungeons coupled with throw voice, which all 3 words can be found at shearpoint in the video, you can lure out any bandit and have him dead in the blink of an eye, and if your position is compromised, you can quickly take them out without being seen, its a great build for me, but if it works for you, then great.
You can use a potion immediately after you fire your arrow, before it streaks to the target. This is useful if you want to strike from concealment, quaff a potion of brief invisibility, and remain undetected when the arrow lands. It may not sound like a big deal, but if you're trying to assassinate someone in a crowd without a bounty, it can make all the difference.
If you don't want to waste an arrow to distract an enemy, cast magelight where you want them to go. You need silent casting from the Illusion tree, but it is one of the best perks if you play any stealthy build. Enemy NPCs will follow the ball of light to its destination & as a bonus, they are illuminated, giving you a perfect target for your next strike. Oddly, this works on the Falmer, who are blind.
That's because they smell the light xDDDD
I have a little bit of advice for those people who sneak while drawing their bow or have terrible armor rating and can get two-shot or are bad at stealth but need it. I've learned that using your climbing skills (or horse glitch) you can scale mountains or buildings and get to a place where enemies cannot get you. Well, maybe except dragons or ranged enemies. You can shoot enemies while taking almost no damage unless the enemies uses ranged tactics, but you can dodge most with the Ranger perk.
Even as a mage who focuses primarily on destruction and restoration, I find myself using bows a lot. Especially against Dragons.
Bows save me a lot of magic.
"Nock"(verb) refers to stringing your arrow; the groove on the pull-string where the arrow rests is also referred to as a "nock" (noun).
If you wann get an Elven bow relatively early in the game go to the Companion's building in Whiterun (or fast-travel to Dragonsreach and look for the dome shaped building on the left) go to the basement and find a display case in the huntress's room. It's lock is Expert so I would suggest bringing alot of picks along.
Another great vid, my personal favorites are Ranger and Powershot, you can none stop stunning your target. Bulleye is good but I rather rely on Powershot to stun lock the target.
I know what you mean. Once a new slang term comes out, it takes a week to a month for me to finally understand it. After one month of hearing YOLO, it took me forever to figure it out.
You have to use soul gems to recharge the weapon's enchantments. Soul gems can be found all over Skyrim, and you have to fill it with a soul by killing a creature. There are weapons/spells that allow you to capture a soul when you kill an enemy, such as the Soul Trap spell. If you're playing on the Xbox, you can recharge your weapon by going to it in your inventory and pressing RB.
tip: for sneaky characters the only way to summon the bound bow without being discovered is to have the illusion perk quiet casting
insane detail. very well prepared! good job on the video.
One thing that will help is a powerful paralyzing enchantment for crowds e,g. two enemies are running full speed at you, shoot one and they will be down for let's say five seconds, that gives you the opportunity to take out or at least damage the other enemy, possibly paralyzing them both so you can keep your distance or have a small window to think about your next action.
btw, with the slow time perk, you can just draw your bow and then slow the time and when you have shot the arrow, stop the zooming and then do the same, if you one shot kill a person you can shoot 3 more arrows in him before he even hits the ground
my archery tip is to have a good sturdy melee companion with you to keep the enemies in place while you make the enemy look like Boromir at the end of fellowship of the rings
to level up your archary in the very beginning of the game, get feandal as a follower. He is in the first town you go to (Riverwood). You can buy skill upgrades from him, then trade with him and he'll give you your money back. Free upgrade up to level 50!! Note, you should start at a low level because you can only pay for 5 upgrades per overall level. Hope this helps low end characters!!
Great video, I have a billion hours in on skyrim and have come up with great classes that work for me, but your video just took my archer from great to legendary. Having a vid to explain perks and give personal opinion of them helps extremely! Thanks
A great Method for beginners on a legit playthrough for sneak/archery characters is to go hunting. Plenty of game live outside of whiterun, letting you train sneak and archery while on the hunt and provides the means to a cheap effective smithing and enchanting resource; leather for leather armour crafting.
now isnt this real guide or not...nice work man!
I found the best way to aim bows in Skyrim was to use the top and bottom sections of the crosshair (Harder to aim while sneaking but not so hard with some practice and experience). For close range shots, I used the top arrow of the crosshair, putting my desired target right above the tick (I.E. their head). For longer range shots I would use the bottom arrow of the crosshair. I'm not sure if it was intentional by bethesda, but the top and bottom arrows of the crosshair are really good indicators of the bow's arc. I was a little disappointed that you didn't cover this technique as it is quite commonly used by players.
Wow that was the most helpful vid ive ever seen on this subject. Only thin you left out is if your moveing to the side when you shoot your arrows fly a little in that direction sso release the shot aiming just next to the target and it will fly over and hit...if that makes sence in text
@pms00 keep making skyrim guides, they have helped me do a lot better in the game. U seem to have a never ending guide to quests and different things in skyrim. Keep up the good work!!! (:
I noticed that too, if you miss your intended target but the arrow strikes a surface close enough it's almost like a small area of effect. I wish I hadn't taken this perk though because with the sneak perk I was one shotting most enemies all the time but now when the paralyze activates it stuns the target but doesn't do any physical damage, this can be problematic as its can activate multiple times, and also a stunned enemy draws attention much more than if they are just executed straight away
Thanks for the tips:
I have both my Archery and Sneak at Legendary... combining that with a full Slow Time-Shout and alteration potions or True shot, plus all my gear and jewelry adding more Bow strength... I'm doing fairly well for a level 57. Ancient dragons take me about 10-15 ebony arrows on Expert gameplay. Favorite weapon is Ebony bow of exhaustion (74 damage) which takes away 30% of the enemy's stamina. I usually can take out a giant with 3-5 Elven arrows on expert. I pretty much went this way with my character build without any help from the youtube community, looking back I'm glad too see I made the right decisions being new to Skyrim. I'm now working on Speech and Smithing I need to get Deadric arrows, my highest damage output arrow is Stahlrim but I don't know where to farm it, so I'm either smithing Elven arrows and buying Ebony, for animals (wolfs, bears, etc) I'll use orc or steal.
I use the bound bow (since im a nightblade) which at my current level (94) does 277 damage
Nathan Shiels 94? I though 81 was the max level?
Chaz Floyde it was, but they added the ability to "legendary" a skill which is essentially prestiging from call of duty, you reset a level 100 skill and make it level 15 again, and it returns all your perks, you can do this multiple times on any skill, so now there is essentially no level cap
Nathan Shiels Seems like I was stupid all those days ago XD Haha I'm level 143 nowXD
Chaz Floyde you sir, had a brainfart...
When it comes to sneaking with a bow, since it isn't a silent weapon and if you hit an enemy they will know the direction of the shot, it is good to move forward to shoot them then back into the shadows. The AI does not seem to run past the area that you fired the arrow.
im fairly sure the bound bow does in fact take effects from overdraw, I use the bound bow and my damage has been steadily increasing with the overdraw perk, not too mention getting your conjuration up allows for summons, which combined with companions give you a small army to act as a meat shield and distract your enemies. if you get the thrall skills in master conjuration you can potentially have a group of 4 npcs with you, but this does include barbas which I didn't finish quest so hes with me
Best archery guide ever
One thing you didn't mention is that moving while firing off an arrow will send it a little of course. Very important to make a stop everytime when shooting arrows in combine with ranger perk.
Wonderful guide. I'll admit I was thinking this was going to be dumb but I did not know that the archs for each bow was different. I intend to look at your other guides keep up the good work.
Also, I only ever used this once, in all my time playing, but if you draw an arrow then fall or walk off a ledge, your character will no longer be aiming with the bow, but the arrow will still fire normally. Useful only .0001% of the time, but it can be fun to shoot people while falling.
This was an incredibly helpful video. I plan on finally buying this game for PC (PS3 copy is engraging me), and my first character will be majoring in archery, so this was an awesome guide to watch!
I would have liked more Infos on the actually technique of hitting the enemy.
This is the real archery skill for me in Skyrim.
Your analysis of the trajectory was good, but things like reload shot or Arrow stabs in close distance can be important tools as well.
You can also shoot around corners when you walk sideways while shooting. On solid distance you can hit an enemy you can't even see around a wall.
There are many more examples for effective combat use of Archery.
Very well done, professional and informative! Thanks for a great video!
that beginning is so sick
I got a mod that added a bunch of bows, including low-level stuff like light & heavy iron, steel, bone, ivory, and a few types of wood. It makes for more flexibility at lower levels. But in the end I always use ebony.
the archery one is just my personal preferences. the tradeskills one is for how to achieve max stats on smithed armor rating and enchantments
Tip! With targets that are walking left or right of your view, it's best to aim at the location they will end up in 1 to 1.5 seconds. If running, 2.5 to 3 seconds.
I've read that bullseye isn't really a good perk for long range shooters, because when you fire the arrow you actually shoot the spell paralyze at the same time, and the spell actually travels faster than the arrow itself, you won't notice it from close range, but from far range the target would fall and dodge the actual arrow
With this knowledge, I shall be the greatest bowman ever!
Best archery guide on the internet!!!
I *LOVE* the bound bow! I'm lvl 81 and I still use it! It does plenty of dmg for me, but I'm wondering how much dmg it actually does...
How to get high damage in Skyrim 101
Get Azura's Star.
fortify alchemy enchant > fortify enchanting potion > fortify alchemy enchant > fortify enchanting potion > fortify alchemy enchant > fortify enchanting potion > fortify alchemy enchant > fortify enchanting potion > fortify alchemy enchant > fortify enchanting potion > fortify alchemy enchant > fortify enchanting potion > fortify alchemy enchant > fortify smiting enchant + what ever weapon enchant you want.
Congratulation, you broke the game.
You can find an elven bow at any level in the companions basement area. There is also an archery skill book, and they're both locked by an (I believe) expert level lock in a display case.
thanks, im doing an archer build at the mo and been having some difficulties. This vid has been so helpful compared to the rest out there!! :) :) :)