Hey guys,i just got my skyrim,i want to start as archer,i whole life favourited archers,so can u recommend me what skills do i need and what i have to rely on,what is important for archers,race,class,professions...thx for reply! cheers

Race - Pick the one you like the most

Perks - Pick the one that enables you to zoom and the one that whe nyou zoom it slows time by 25% . This are ESSENTIALS



There's some other things that can help you, but i'm too lazy to write the whole stuff down.. I'm really sorry..

Well for skills it’s pretty simple, stick to the Archery tree and possibly the sneak tree if that’s the route you’re wanting to take him. For a class, I believe the Wood Elf starts with a higher archery rating. It tells you everything you need to know when making a class, just pay attention and you’ll come out right as rain.

An archer who uses sneak, archery, light armor, armorsmith and enchanting is godlike and very fun. Since magic needs a serious rework this archer type is what I am playing the most.

Bosmer get +10 archery +5 sneak and light armor. Khajiit get +10 sneak +5 archery and light armor. But its TES. choose whatever race you wish. .

Skills, Just go down the Archery tree, plain as day. Anything else you delve into do so at your own flavor of character. This is TES. There is no wrong way. :tes:

You really need to go into the Sneak tree as well for the X3 modifier, sneak attacks with a bow is what keeps you alive and your enemies, well not alive :wink_smile:

Thank you so much for fast reply,so do u think that will get along with game without any tips and stuff,just playing ?:) that is something that game is offering right ?:)

Use archery with conjuration

insanely broken

use breton

summon your frost atronach tank then summon a bow that will be stronger than anything you can get in game unless you powerlevel smithing on your archer for a deadric bow.

Summoned bows are powerful for non crafters, but an enchanted legendary bow just cuts thru mobs like a hot knife going thru butter. The atronachs are a fun twist if you find yourself needing a tank.

If you want your character to be an archer, you will really have to go down the stealth route in order to fully take advantage of what the bow and arrow can do. Like others have said, stick to the archery tree as well as light armor and stealth. You might want to throw a few perks into one-handed weapons as well because you will have to fight hand to hand on occasion. Also there are some cool abilities that you get in the stealth tree that make using daggers and swords desirable.

Welcome to the club!

Archery, Stealth, Light armour, One handed (only a few points).

I put points in Mercantile (Mere convenience) and Smithing (Maxed)

Go back to One handed, when satisfied with the first 3.

My character is no god, I enjoy the challenge.

Follow what others said. Also, at mid to close range if you want to get headshots, aim for the neck the arrow will go upwards first few yards. Long range you may need compensate for arrow falling towards the earth so aim above the target. It takes practice, but I'm sure you will be fine

Thanks guys!

I enjoy this role...

(1) I'm an archer 100%, no other weapons (I did have an "Oh S**t" dagger but decided to drop it for the RP). Live by the bow, die by the bow.
(2) Went with the Wood Elf. The initial perks fit the play style plus I made a good looking one.
(3) No armor at all. Just a personal choice for the challenge plus my Wood Elf is a girl. Just something about dungeon diving or taking out dragons in the best looking dress she can find for the occassion.
(4) Invested in the Archery and Sneak skill trees. One needs to be uber sneaky when wearing only a dress.
(5) No companions. I did take Lydia for a while but she kept chargin in, ruining my stealth strategy.

I'm at level 27 now and am 100 sneak and upper 70's archery. Sneak levels very easily, not so much archery. I'm carrying a glass bow and mostly elven arrows at this level, though I've found a few higher level arrows. I don't enchant and collected a boatload of ingredients for making poisons. I'm thinking I may not even go that route with the current character because with the sneak perks, I'm pretty damn powerful now. Not godlike, dragons don't give a s**t about what gown I'm wearing and 100% sneak doesn't help so much there so I still have a fight on my hands. However, pretty much everything else, including giants, can be taken on if I am in the mood. I just finished a dungeon where I faced 2 draugr death overlords and a dragon priest and didn't take a hit from them. Sure it took a while and I had to plan my approaches but it sure felt good pulling my arrows out of the dragon priest's corpse at the end.

I use a Bosmer archer, perks concentrated in archery, sneak, light armor, and conjuration (for when you get rushed and need a sponge to absorb some of the aggro)

i will be archer without any other weapons,wanna be pure archer

You need Stealth.

Stealth+Archer is good.

Dont take enchanting etc, you dont want it.

Reason you need stealth is to line up your shot AND you get sneak attack bonus from bows just like with daggers.

Bows fire slowly so require more tactics, but its very good and above, very fun.
Its far less powerful then melee weapons but since you can run, kite and shoot quite far, its very good.

Just play the game, place your perks in Archery and some in stealth, And in light armor and in restoration.
Thats your base. The rest you will figure out along the road.

What's is this fixation that you have to wear light armour with archers. Heavy armour works just as well. You suffer a bit on the sneak side but you make up for it by not being a pin cushion. Also if you can choose your engagements well you can steal easily get that 2.00x or 3.00x damage multiplier.

Sneaking only works if there's someone/something to possibly see you sneak. Enemies, NPCs, animals, etc.

So, if you clear a dungeon, and halfway through decide to turn around and sneak back to sell some stuff, sneaking through an empty dungeon is just time wasted and does not level up your sneaking.

Good luck.

I love my assassin. My main weapon is my glass bow I made and I have 2 daggers for when it's just 1 person I know I can sneak up behind. Once you get the perks that let you move around with a drawn bow faster and lets you draw a bow 30% faster (forget the names) life as an archer is a LOT better.

Archery, stealth, light armor, smithing, enchanting. I didn't even bother using a 1 handed weapon anymore after I got the knockback effect.
Race doesn't matter. Only in the beginning will it make a small difference, but in the end everyone can use any skill just as well so chose a race you like the look of.

I use companions, but leave them outside of dungeons as a lookout. I walk everywhere and sneaking takes too long, so having a meatshield with you out in the open helps. In dungeons they get in the way, trigger traps you can simply walk over/avoid and ruin your stealth. The added advantage is that if they are waiting outside you can load them up with you loot so you have enough room in your inventory for the next place you're clearing out if you give them a bow they will use it and won't get in your wayy so often.

I put 1 point in sneak, then focussed on archery and smithing until I could get the 3x multiplier to bow sneak attacks. Smithing can be overpowered, so I try and keep that at the same level as my highest skills sneak/archery which worked out pretty well so far. I started enchanting a bit later, only bought the first point so far. I have 1 bow with a powerful damage enchant, and a cheap lightweight bow with a soultrap enchant. I use the latter on creatures I want to soultrap only, and use the souls to restore the charges on my main weapon.

Alchemy would nicely complement my build, but I find it tedious so I haven't really bothered. I simply buy my health potions, and only use poisons I find on the hardest kills.

Don't neglect block as both a tactic and a skill. The power bash and disarming bash perks both work with bows.

Just FYI - it doesn't matter where you hit someone. There is no positional damage. Hitting someone in the foot could kill them the same as a headshot - headshots don't do extra damage.

As a high level archer, one handed is pretty much useless. I haven't hit anyone with a 1-handed in probably 25 levels or so.

Archery (+dmg perks,slow time,fast draw), Sneak (3x mult) - will set you up pretty well. At high levels I maxed enchanting to get something like +200% dmg/+200% stealth.

Ok guys,i started with my archer i am 5 lvl now,i hardly killed that vampire in quest,in dungeon...i have hunter bow,what do u recommend for faster leveling,i keep putting my perks at archery and sneaking,i dont have any weapon except bow