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The Advanced Archery Corner

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  • TZ
    Member
    December 6, 2013

    Hey Alastor, like I said in the PM earlier, I would love to make a video for this post 15th of December. 

  • Member
    December 6, 2013
    I know a lot of people share the same sentiments as yourself Teccam and I want to include more tips that don't involve glitches or exploits. I just haven't see any archery threads, so I started this one to get the ball rolling. I'm definitely open to suggestions for the thread though. Hopefully we can gather some great information here! Also, if you haven't tried anything listed, I highly recommend it if just for fun. It's a nice change of pace and can make Skyrim feel new.
  • Member
    December 6, 2013
    Just checked my inbox lol. A huge thanks in advance, TZ. I think a video demonstrating some potential gameplay would be a great addition to the thread. I must warn you though, it takes some time to perfect these skills and successfully pull them off in battle. Looking forward to what you can come up with though.

    No rush on the vid and thanks again! :)
  • December 6, 2013
    Haha, looking forward to some new TZ action
  • Member
    December 7, 2013

    I was sick with strep for 10 days and I come back to see my next two topics already covered (this and the hearthfire alchemy!), it's fantastic to see people posting in this section again!

    I was working on a more focused guide to the archery perk tree (rather than these techniques) so most of it doesn't really fit in this thread but there are a few things I can add to this discussion that may be of interest:

    HUNTER'S DISCIPLINE:

    I could never find any information about what this perk actually did so others may also be interested.  When you hit an NPC with an arrow it has a 33% chance of being added to their inventory which can subsequently be looted if you kill them (this is why enemies will sometimes equip the arrows you're shooting at them if they are stronger than theirs).  With this perk taken this chance is modified to a 66% chance.  I see people saying this perk is worthless all the time, I don't understand this mentality.

    POWER SHOT:

    There are two parts to this perk that need to be mentioned, regular bows and crossbows.  Stagger can be thought of as an animation that takes 'X' number of seconds to complete from start to finish, if your enemy is only being affected by a stagger magnitude of 0.5 then the animation will be half as long as it's full length.  It sounds more complicated than it really is.

    • Regular bows are given a 50% chance to stagger your enemy (if they can be staggered) by a magnitude of 0.25
    • Crossbows are given this same chance but are also given an additional chance (an identical dice roll) as an inherant bonus

    Basically when you take this perk every time you attack an NPC with your bow the game will do a dice roll, if it lands on positive you will also shoot out a spell that staggers the enemy.  Crossbows come pre-enchanted with this perk so if you take Powershot and use a crossbow you get two seperate dice rolls.  This is a very important difference to note.  Crossbows with Powershot DO NOT have a 100% chance to stagger (I see people posting this all the time), they have two individual 50% chances...and if both dice rolls happen to land at the same time you will hit the enemy with a 0.5 stagger magnitude rather than the base 0.25.  Skyrim math is fun!

    These aren't really tricks for using archery but they are things that are, for the most part, not understood very well by the community as a whole.  There's little point in posting the guide I was going to do since this is much better, hopefully someone else here will find these two things of some interest!

  • Member
    December 7, 2013

    I'm thinking more for good arrows, not scrub elven arrows

  • December 7, 2013
    If your onthe PC don't get hunters disipline, I say this because of the absolute guilty pleasure of adding as many arrows of your choice as you want with a simple code.
  • Member
    December 7, 2013
    Haha didn't mean to steal your thunder James. And that info is really helpful! Assuming Hunter's Discipline is a 2x multiplier, it may be possible that Vampire/Necromage affects this perk too. Would you be able to check the actual value of Hunter's Discipline with the Vamp/Necromage combo? I'd love to but I'm on console :p P.S. Thanks for helping out with the thread and hope to see something from you soon!
  • Member
    December 7, 2013

    I'm sure many pure archers probably know this, but a great trick for archers who use poisons. When you apply a poison, it technically is applied to the bow, not the arrow. Therefore, if you apply a poison and use bash on a closing opponent, the poison will be used and your target will be poisoned. This is a great escape technique with paralysis or slow poisons and close quarters combat.

  • Member
    December 7, 2013
    Hmm, not sure how well-known that is. I may include it with a list of different methods to transfer poisons and enhantments. Thanks for the tip Donny. :)