That's odd, I never encountered that much trouble with leveling Archery. Couple of notes:
- I typically don't take followers, which means I have to do all the killing myself. That helps improve your combat skill.
- I tend to keep the Guardian Stone running for a long time, so I'm getting bonus xp in Archery for the first 20 levels or so. Don't switch over to the Lord stone until you're happy with where your Archery is at.
- The relevant Guardian Stone for Archery in the vanilla game is actually the Thief (due to a bug or an oversight or something) - but if you're running a mod that changes that, it'll obviously be different.
I often find that Restoration is actually a harder skill to level up. Of the 4 main skills in the build, Resto is the one you can't really "spam" until higher levels (the Circle spells, which you get xp for casting anywhere). And my usual method is to avoid getting hurt (with this build, that means walking slowly so as not to be surprised by an ambush, and sprint-kiting to avoid melee types), so I don't always get a chance to heal.
That's odd, I never encountered that much trouble with leveling Archery. Couple of notes:
- I typically don't take followers, which means I have to do all the killing myself. That helps improve your combat skill.
- I tend to keep the Guardian Stone running for a long time, so I'm getting bonus xp in Archery for the first 20 levels or so. Don't switch over to the Lord stone until you're happy with where your Archery is at.
- The relevant Guardian Stone for Archery in the vanilla game is actually the Thief (due to a bug or an oversight or something) - but if you're running a mod that changes that, it'll obviously be different.
I often find that Restoration is actually a harder skill to level up. Of the 4 main skills in the build, Resto is the one you can't really "spam" until higher levels (the Circle spells, which you get xp for casting anywhere). And my usual method is to avoid getting hurt (with this build, that means walking slowly so as not to be surprised by an ambush, and sprint-kiting to avoid melee types), so I don't always get a chance to heal.