I find Paralyzing Shot to be a con when you're making long-distance shots because instead of applying the paralyze effect to the arrow instead the game generates an invisible Alteration projectile that moves more quickly than arrows and can paralyze a target with enough time to allow the target to fall out of the arrow's path, forcing it to miss.
84 -> 100 with Angi's training and the black book Winds of Change and then reading the skill books. Also daedric bow shoots with less arc than dragonbone bow with only slightly less damage. Good guide still, thanks!
I never have issues getting Archery to 100, so I never took the time to cheese it this way, It just goes up as i play. Of course I get free lessons from my follow bitch Faendal early on. But the rest comes naturally.
I had no clue ruin's edge bow was in that cave or was even a thing and went into that cave to do what I thought was a simple quest for an NPC and continued on because I knew there was a moonstone vein over there you can imagine my surprise when I had no magic and was really close to dying trying to fight this guy and just how confused I was. Once I finally killed him I looted his body to find out what the heck was going on and realized it was the stupid bow. If I had known the bow was on him I wouldn't have done this quest so unprepared. Thank goodness I am obsessed with stocking up healing potions that I make and find but still I had no magic to heal myself with.
Faendal can train you from what ever your starting archery skill is up to level 50 with out having leave riverwood You don’t need to go all the way to high hrothgar also The bound bow is great for magic user but for standard archer don’t have magic to cast it a great bow you can get is bow of shadows in white run dragons reach the Stewart gives you a quest to stop a assassin after you do you get the bow the does 43 damage ,uses ebony arrows 20 damage and the bow gives you invisibility for 30 sec after you ready it !
Why aren't you mentioning Angi (Angi's Camp)? Do some practice shots for her and you get more archery points. Slow time shout help with some of the trickier tasks.
I don’t suggest going up both sides of the smithing tree, just go up one side of it, probably the right side. I chose not to bother crafting a lot of bows and using them because you can go get an ebony bow early at lost valkygg near labarynthian and alternatively I found another ebony bow at volunruud. I get the ebony bow early which carries you so you don’t have to waste time crafting weaker bows. Also you can use the spell bound bow which is super strong, even better than the ebony bow. It’s as good as a daedric bow and shits on early game enemies
I just started a survival run on master. I did it once, and it was crazy difficult. But no you can have the bow of shadow pretty early in-game and it makes even Master difficulty easy for me.
without any mods, sure. With mods it's not hard. 1 mod for cloak, 1 mod for extra ring, 1 mod for facemask and u can stack more hp, stamina, magic resist, whatever.
@@nemonama I've played every iteration possible of every character archetype. The best archer for me would be nothing but archery, alchemy and some armor. Just 3 skills. Combine this with either shouts or daily powers (you can stack up a ton of them and its very powerful).
While I don't condone shooting the Greybeards or your companions just to level up (pick on bandits...they deserve it), I find the Forsworn bow to be the best you can get early on in the game, as its base damage is higher than any other bow you can make or buy.
What’s better: A legendary enhanced dragonbone crossbow with chaos damage and fiery soul trap, with all the perks that benefit it, or The same but stalhrim instead of dragonbone. I ask because stalhrim weapons get a bonus (I think 25%?) to frost enchantments (which chaos damage counts as).
Also getting the augmented frost, flame and shock perks in the destruction tree, fire, shock and frost enchanter perks in the enchanting tree make the chaos enchantment a skill to own all of Skyrim.
Fo r me the best bow always revolved around completing 3 quests in Solsteihm, 1. Re-claim the notched pickaxe for the blacksmith which he gifts it to you after returning it to him. 2. Upon 1st exiting Raven Rock, you will see the leader of Raven rock's soldiers fighting ash spawn, defeat them to get the quest to investigate where the ash spawn are coming from. This leads to a fort where you fight your way to the General leading the ash spawn, defeat him and get the Champion's cudgel, disenchant this for the chaos enchantment. 3. In Skaal village get the quest to rescue the skaal blacksmith, rescue him and he will teach you the recipe for crafting stahlrim gear and weapons. Mind some shahlrim and craft a bow, improve it to legendary and enchant it with the chaos enchantment and a second one of your choosing if you have the extra effects perk in the enchanting skill tree. Now that's a bow to rule them all! It does take some effort to obtain but it'll be worth it.
I've just started my first playthrough of skyrim a few months back and finding these videos has helped me understand the game SO much. One thing I'm confused about is the fact that in all these videos nobody mentions hermeus mora's boon that gives you two skill points for reading the books. for starting a new save with the goal of maxing out any skills I would do that series of quests first. Is there a reason everyone skips that or is it just not something most people think about/know about? (I did solthsteim dlc at like lvl 5 bc I had no idea what the main quest was and some merchant told me to go there lol)
Fastest way to level up archery is hotkeying a power (such race power) then using bound bow and shot, once you shot immediately hotkey the power and then shot again so that you alternate continuously and quickly hotkey and fire command: you will fire arrow very quick and you level up much much faster
I love this video super cool my favorite I have had all the bows in this video and I wear the same armor suit myself reading level 52 armor and rising up I can't pronounce the word I call it supreme
Crossbows aren’t as good for stealth because they are loud. They’re supposed to just be for combat archery but once your stealth is good enough they are just far better than bows.
Hey man I love your skyrim guides! Just wondering if you could tell me the best way to experience skyrim's quests like should I do the main quest, theives guild, companions, then dark brotherhood, etc? I did the dark brotherhood quest and ended up killing an NPC which I later found out caused me to miss out on a certain quest and I would hate to run into a similar situation again. I know there's a lot of people who are gonna say to just do whatever you want but I would love to know which quests you would do in what order if you were to start all over again. Thanks!
Me personally I like to get my enchanting, smithing then an attack tree either destruction, Archery, one handed or two handed. To 100 then I like doing the dawngaurd or dradonborn doc's first the the guilds in any order then main quest
Tip: you can get the Oghma Infinium book from the Septimus Severus questline that you start just outside the College of Winterhold. It levels up all skills in either warrior, mage, or thief skill trees by 5 levels. Choose which tree best suits you and there's less shooting greybeards hahah
That's definitely one way to do it, but don't you need to complete the whole Companion's questline before you can get Aela as a follower/trainer? Not the most efficient way to level up archery, but it is different. The location of the special bows is very helpful.
Yeah the most efficient would just be straight up attacking the grey beards but I try to show absolutely everything I can just to go the extra mile lol
I appreciated this video. When I look up improve weapons or bows in skyrim, I get many videos on how to use some glitch or loophole to unfairly overpower all weapons and armor. I just want to improve my weapons to give myself an edge to keep up with the rising difficulty of my enemies. But I don’t necessarily want to auto 1 shot kill everything. I have been using the shadow bow primarily, but without the perks to upgrade it yet (arcane blacksmith), it’s beginning to show it will need to be upgraded to shoot down dragons and other tough opponents quickly. So thanks for the armor and potion recommendations for enhancing armor.
There's an archer south of Falkreath, up in the mountains. She's got an archery set that'll get you five levels. Not sure if it costs much of anything at all.
With the Anniversary Edition; if you go to a blacksmith forge, you can create arrows of all types. Basic arrows, colkrub, lightening/fire/frost and others. Didn't see you mention that as arrows are essential. Also the Longbow starts of with a 30% faster draw speed, which you didn't mention either.
Longbow, Zephyr, & Auriel's Bow are all the Max speed Bows in the game. Enchanting a Longbow with your standard issue exploit Enchantment will have better dps than a different bow with the same enchantment. Otherwise the Dragonbone Bow is by far the best mix of Speed and damage. In Anniversary Edition is has a higher speed that Amber/Madness Bows and only one less base Damage. 0.75 Speed compared to 0.5. For reference the fastest Bows as mentioned above have a speed of 1.0
@M J The enchantment exploits still make the longbow your best choice in the end game, but you're right about the Bow of Shadows being the best pre-enchanted bow. It being available at level 1 really wrecks the power scaling.
People laugh about archery being easy mode, but Bethesda makes it that way by sheer design: 1. You get a free bow at the very end of the tutorial out of Helgen, regardless of if you asked for one. 2. Faendal is a follower that trains you up to level 50 archery, practically for free. 3. Most players do the Companions questline first, and Aela the Huntress is an expert level trainer of archery. Also a follower you can have train you for free. 4. Of all the skills in the game, only archery gets a dedicated minigame that gives you 6 levels of archery through Angi at her camp, regardless of level. 5. You can get arrows for free with NPCs with archery animations, arrows of any type if you can reverse pick them into their inventory. Even if you don't have the patience for that, you can get the bound bow spell, arguably the best spell in the game with an amazing draw speed. Even if you put in the least amount of effort into archery, you're still looking at 81 free levels, and that's enough for every perk in the skill tree.
So I bought the Anniversary Edition thinking I would get all the new stuff but apparently I need the dam internet...so basically I have 2 copies of Special Edition...and wasted 50$ on the Anniversary
No the best bow is actually the stalrim ones if you place the chaos enchantment on the stalrim bow or crossbow not only the frost part gets buffed but the hole enchantment coss all 3 element’s are taken as one so if you buff the frost with the stalrim every element gets buffed and if you put the element buffs from destruction and the dragon priest mask that buffs frost the stalrim bow and crossbow are best hands down actuality all stalrim weapons ore best if you use the chaos enchantment
If you are going to abuse the game to get maxed in a skill instead of just playing the game you might as well just us commands instead. Its prety much the same thing anyway, you are not playing the game regardless.
One correction/clarification for your video: 17:50 Ruins Edge- "Randomly applies *ONE* (aka not all) of these effects to the target: Frost, Demoralize, Frenzy, Drain Magica, Paralyze."
For long range sniping i use Daedric Bow or Dragon bone bow For mounted shot i use Zephyr or enhanced dwarven crossbow For assassination i use Bound Bow with soul stealer perk + Black soul Gem #insertevillaugh
When is the next one or what’s the progression of the single player Skyrim. Because I have been waiting and trying to find or figure out what Bethesda is doing????
Also, is is possible to disenchant the bow of shadows to learn its enchantment so I can make one and upgrade it first or do I need to spend the perk to upgrade magical weapons to level it up?
You left out my favorite bow. Dravin's Bow from the quest Bow to the Master. It can't be enchanted because it's a quest item but it can be smithed. I made a Archery suit so the bound bow worked for most enemies. When there are dragons I pull out reverse-pickpocketed daedric arrows and the weightless bow for mid 900 damage. I like my Breton to travel light.
In AE they must've fixed getting the money back from Faendal because the gold is no longer available for me when I request to trade items or pickpocket him.
I've been struggling with leveling up speech without glitches does anyone know how to level them up faster right now im just selling hundreds of enchanted gold rings with sneak.
Alchemy is your friend. If you build a house with a garden and plant 5 Mora Tapinella (found around Riverwood), 3 Scaly Pholiota (found in the Rift between Riften and Shor's Stone), and 3 Creep Cluster (3 plants are right next to the Atronach Stone), every 3 in-universe days you have enough material for 15 very expensive potions to sell. You can have more if you add a Greenhouse and/or buy multiple plots of land. Note: they will be listed as "Fortify Carry Weight" but this particular potion will have 5 effects. Also, unlike Enchanting, which lowers the value of items as the skill goes up, potions become MORE valuable as the Alchemy skill goes up, and by extension, speech levels faster as you increase the Alchemy skill. At first I recommend selling to a general merchant like Belethor rather than a dedicated alchemist like Arcadia since they have more gold on average (around 750 vs 500) and they have a wider assortment of things to buy. But eventually once you get to 50 Speech and take the merchant perk, you can sell any item to any merchant... including skill trainers like Eorlund Gray-Mane or the teachers at the College of Winterhold, and they become the recommended merchants to trade with. Each level, you can dump a bunch of gold into smithing or a magic school, then sell your potions to make your money back and more while also leveling speech and possibly buying useful items like enchanted weapons/armor in Eorlund's case or soul gems in everyone else's. Eventually your potions are going to get so expensive you might have to do this to give the merchant in question enough gold to buy them at full price. BTW, if you don't want to abuse the save-hit-reload exploit to reset a shopkeeper's gold, you can also buy back one of the potions you just sold. This will give the shopkeeper more gold so you can sell more of your potions. The net gold gain will not be as high, but this yields more speech experience than the save-hit-reload method because you're also getting experience from buying the potion and selling the same copy of a potion multiple times. And on top of all that, Alchemy and Speech experience are both boosted by the Thief Stone. So there's that too.
Yes, you can level any skill to 100 with or without the books. I guess using the books from 95 > 100 makes it the most efficient use of the books. Better to use them then than from 1 > 6 of course. But not critical.
