Skyrim - Archery Guide (2021)

[@joshuabillings5108]

The Nordic Bow and Arrows are my favorite in appearance because they match the Blackguards armor so well.

[@NomoSapienss]

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!

[@zebracorn4281]

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.

[@fireblast133]

just a note, if you have the unofficial patch, you want the warrior stone still. the patch changes archery to be covered by that

[@z.b.95]

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.

[@savagegtalks5912]

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.

[@Phanbot01]

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.

[@Kaftan]

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.

[@rons3634]

Excellent point.

[@zachlewis9751]

That is hilarious. So paralyzing shot is good for combat archery rather than long range or stealth

[@byronrush9802]

@@zachlewis9751 yep unless the targets on a cliff

[@zachlewis9751]

@@byronrush9802 Well I think Unrelenting Force + Quiet Casting is much better in that situation

[@Ju-lz1ug]

Bethesda moment

[@ChefBoyYeshua]

Favorite Skyrim content creator been watching my entire day off. Love em please don't stop with the new content bro

[@ldcraig2006]

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.

[@paulregener8509]

Awe man was gonna watch this and then take a nap. NOW I HAVE TO DO WHAT I WANT IN REVERSE WTF!!!

[@jake10ty]

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

[@zandermilligan9914]

Only thing is, you need lvl 15.

[@joshuajefferson3504]

@@zandermilligan9914 it not that hard to get to lvl 15.

[@zandermilligan9914]

@@joshuajefferson3504 sometimes it is for me

[@joshuajefferson3504]

@@zandermilligan9914 the way i did it i got to lvl 15 before i went to whiterun in the beginning.

[@Numbuh10125]

I notice that you have timestamps in the descriptions of your videos. Appreciated. You should consider using KZbin’s video chapters feature.

[@roblowery3188]

Bravo! This video is a one stop shop. Full stop. Period. Done. Thank you for getting right to it and for editing out all the hand-holding crap. Bravo!

[@flabbergasted6231]

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.

[@infiad1275]

That guy kills me sometimes even when I know he's there!

[@The181808]

You should do a video where you go over the improved skill trees in Ordinator

[@aviedw1]

its amazing how much you can do in just one aspect of the game.

[@HUPLY08YTJ09]

Thanks for all these guide videos I've been trying to get everything to 100 at least once.

[@zanthe_]

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

[@zanthe_]

@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.

[@N0mni]

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).

[@GameVibzMason]

Thats tough lol either is god tier 🙌

[@Phanbot01]

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.

[@coolkidsclub9943]

Madness material in anniversary edition actually does mote base damage than Dragonbone (saints and seducers) so likely that

[@celticfrost86]

Archery benefits from the Warrior Stone with the Unofficial patch.

[@doomfable3378]

Just found your channel. Some good info on your videos and they are well made. Keep up the great work, it’s much appreciated.

[@musicmaker1961]

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 !

[@thebenc1537]

I kinda hate archery because it gets so easily overpowered when combined with sneaking. I can never play a sneak archer ever again!

[@nemonama]

Have ya tried a non sneaky archer? Just run and gun?

[@thebenc1537]

@@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).

[@friskyrick4008]

Isn’t that the point?

[@thebenc1537]

@@friskyrick4008 Yeah for some people. For me its boring and wastes so much time.

[@glenncarlson3161]

Excellent video man wow! I never new how many bows I missed thanks

[@SargeWolf010]

Hunting bow* is my personal favorite for hunting animals for pelts/hides

[@DanielJamesShirley]

I do like the steel plate armour! 😍😍 (Although don’t normally wear a helmet).

[@rapidsqualor5367]

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.

[@rons3634]

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.

[@GameVibzMason]

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

[@forthehuynh8893]

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!

[@GameVibzMason]

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

[@Haruzumakii]

My favourite tree 🌳

[@idkpeerpressure2854]

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."

[@jbarbaro7752]

Love your channel bro

[@AdamSmith-ik8qv]

AMAZING videos! Keep it Up!

[@BubbyBoy]

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.

[@morikirc]

Your Videos are awesome and so helpfull! No Bullshit, just pure gold Infos, thank you very much!

[@nelsongsousa37]

You can argue that a dragon bone bow enchanted with over 200 hundred damage does the same

[@brunomulazzani4982]

Nice vídeo! Why does your game loooks so colorful is that a mod?

[@nekomochi486]

Awesome work as always although I wish you could have showcased the expanded crossvows in better lighting! There are some really cool looking ones in that cclub content.

[@rasyidihramsyah7992]

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

[@rachdarastrix5251]

Skyrim: "Haha you suck!" Me: "But I AM a great archer. It's not MY fault my arrows tend to just go right through enemies like they aren't even there!"

[@dimon37]

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.

[@oldgamerchick]

Awesome video thanks for sharing

[@xaviernuss8211]

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????

[@iandunstan2760]

Love the videos.. New to Skyrim, Do you have a how-to enchant items?

[@GameVibzMason]

Watch my enchanting video

[@ms.aelanwyr.ilaicos]

What do you want me to carry? I'll show you what I know.

[@orclord5719]

I've been having a issue with bows. I'll do a full draw, but it'll shoot like just clicking it. So annoying

[@Raven.Bloodrot]

I clicked just to state the fact that no one needs help figuring out archery anymore XD

[@andrewpinvidic7999]

Man all I want is for GameVibz to hold my hand 😭😭

[@AN71H3RO]

Why don't you use Faendal up to level 50 like everyone else?🤔

[@rikkiwood9783]

Amazing video

[@bickle99]

Hello i need help The Expanded crossbow pack dosent work i play on xbox

[@GameVibzMason]

Go to creation club ans click download

[@leomendoza4527]

Cant wait for the alchemy update

[@shukthy]

at 16:05 what do I need to download or do quest to get this guy to sell crossbows?

[@GameVibzMason]

The crossbow pack

[@grimreefer213]

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

[@lunarcontact]

Nice! Thanks

[@rockyp3917]

How does your game looks so high def

[@user-isntavailable]

Noob ?....how does one go about getting inside High Hrothgar?

[@Yuhisern]

Thx man

[@lebonroidagobah3118]

Madness and amber are'nt better than dragon and daedric ?

[@dontbeshady411]

Do fortify archery enchantments boost crossbows too? Probably a dumb question

[@GameVibzMason]

Bow damage yes

[@UNITXLEIGH]

What happens if u do the wrong quest with fadal what ever his name is and he won't even talk to you ect.?

[@GameVibzMason]

Then you can't get him to train you but its okay it doesn't really matter

[@Kamamutra]

At 7:20 , how can u have a clear map like this , i am running on Ultra and still have clouds each time i opene the skyrim map Are u using a mod or some modification on the folder 'preferences ini'

[@finzlee2426]

Clear roads map mod

[@Kamamutra]

@@finzlee2426 ty for your feed back is this mod and the others updated to the anniversary edition ?

[@colekirzy9046]

Can I get from 95 to 100 without using the skill books if I’ve already used some of them

[@oahola237]

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.

[@snapperl]

Before you do ANY OF THIS, get yourself a mod that has better skill trees, vanilla skill trees are bleh. Ordinator is a very popular skill tree mod that many folks use.

[@niteatom3093]

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

[@RichCommander]

The drunken huntsman is also an archery trader

[@timpugel8693]

As is the vendor on the outside of the Ragged Flagon in the Thieves Guild

[@evildead7549]

Get as much iron ore from as many mines as you can and buy as much iron ore as you can transmute during your play here and there and collect and disenchant as many items as you can. Stick around in the thief's guild training area and keep shooting any one of the guild mambers as soon as you are hidden you can do this as well for one handed weapons Don't use the perk points keep training your preferred style of attack Untill you are comfortable with the perks you can pick Your going for Max sneak hidden arrow perk Max archer critical and core strength Attack And in-between Maxing your smithing out and making plenty of jewelry you can enchant and sell Or use to max out your archery attack keep an eye out for smithing potions and enchanting potions stock them up along your travels as they can increase your max effectiveness as an archer. Happy hunting.

[@Rollstuhlgamer]

If i dont own the av version this guide is nothing for me, right?

[@GameVibzMason]

If you have SE you can still get the Dwarven Black bow of fate

[@donchaffins1313]

What about the glass bow of the stag prince?

[@GameVibzMason]

It sucks

[@donchaffins1313]

@@GameVibzMason it was just a unique bow you left off the list.

[@thegamingonix7928]

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.

[@DracoFlame67]

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.

[@ZephrusPrime]

Bow of the Stag Prince?

[@GameVibzMason]

It's shit and hard to get

[@TakOvr-pe8ww]

I don't think we really need extra crits tbh

[@christinaedwards5084]

If you played a proper stealth archer, using alchemy (no smithing) those crits make a huge difference. If you smith you weapons the crit damage is negligible as crit damage is calculated off the weapons base strength. Works out at 10 damage or so. Stealth archers don’t want high damage, they use poisons like you would illusion magic. To manipulate the surrounds. From the sounds of it you have a combat archer who going through an identity crisis. “Trans-stealth archer” 😂

[@psiklops71]

i used a storm shout got kicked out of Skyrim

[@discent9090]

W vid

[@zarfo2667]

We got super similar armor wtf

[@TaraOfAzurePath]

Archery is a warrior skill, not thief🤕

[@GameVibzMason]

No its not lol

[@petenas4404]

183 magic to get bound bow?the idea of being archer is NOT to invest in magic!

[@morriganmhor5078]

But I do not need the adequate smithing perk to actually use the bow if I found or buy it, isn´t it?

[@GameVibzMason]

You only need the smithing perk to make it

[@sirrat7164]

I don't know why you just didn't stay with the great Berrington level up your archery instead of running around enough books you don't need LOL

[@GameVibzMason]

Because no one has ever shown every skill book ill be the fist lol 5 each skill tree

[@sirrat7164]

@@GameVibzMason that's kind of what I thought still good video

[@jsa1119]

You can just paralyse the bow guy in thieves guild and get your money back

[@Bla_blah99]

Dude was salt about seeing his ex again 😂😂

[@christopherwebber3804]

An archery guide that tells you nothing about the differences between each type of bow...

[@bossdozz]

No love for the ebony crossbow

[@Circ00mspice]

*Obligatory stealth archer joke*

[@ErnestasR-gx3nx]

Video is useless, fluff info only, certainly not in depth guide.

[@aniken6877]

Most of those bows would suck in real life.

[@Xuhtig]

No one asked

[@rave1704]

you are overpowered from the very beginning.. no need for a guide

[@MpWrproductions]

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)

[@seanbecraft8088]

Steel armor has always been a huge favorite of mine since launch. It's nice to see someone else rocking it 🤘

[@samuelepantalloni]

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

[@MrAdamo]

does this work in oldrim, SE, or both?

[@samuelepantalloni]

@@MrAdamo i do think so but to be sure just try out if u have one of those versions

[@perkitaseaman3290]

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

[@theonethatquestions8928]

Or, if you are just "cheating rhe game" you might as well just do it through a console command and save the time.

[@zachlewis9751]

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.

[@byronrush9802]

Agreed 🤣💯

[@valen.barreiro]

What's that armor that you have on Serana? It's really dope

[@GameVibzMason]

Plain ebony

[@LizzPrilope]

what about the notched pickaxe? doesnt that boost smithing levels by 10?

[@puppetmaster4235]

@ 9:06 “Come inside the F shack” lol

[@jayferguson9968]

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.

[@jayferguson9968]

Angi's camp.

[@James-qo7uz]

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.

[@xaviernuss8211]

One of the best guides and trust me when I say that because I look at all of them and I do mean all. Love Skyrim!!!!

[@sartire.dx1]

Can you enchant a full set with fortify enchanting

[@oahola237]

No I don't believe so. There is no fortify alchemy potion, nor is there a fortify enchanting enchantment. Bummer.

[@robertgarrity2146]

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.