So Im not talking about draugr deathlords here with their super nuke arrows that do damned near 250 damage, but Im talkin gabout regular bandit archers, I am running with an armor rating of 500, and these archers are taking half my damned health! Hell , they are doing MORe damage than the dwarven ballistas! Something needs to be tweaked here, because a hunting bow with steel arrows should not do more damage than a ballista...no way no how. a hunting bow with all 5 perks does around 30 something damage? with 10 for the steel arrow is 40, on master, that is 80....seriously, something is extremely wrong with this picure.....

Are you on PC? If so, are you running any mods?

Maybe they are stealth killing you

WHat difficulty are you on? If its Legendary, then it to be expected.

On xbox, and I just went to take over that fort for the imperials, around level 28, and there are 2 archers standing above the gate that hit me in the foot twice, and im dead. Its kind of frustrating, god help my mage when I go there, get hit in the pinky and ill be dead.....

master, i refuse to go to legendary until i hit lv 50 or so.

I have a mod that adds 75% damage and 75% speed to arrows and bolts, it makes them truly deadly on legendary.

That Fort I think has naturally stronger archers. I can go take a fort down the road with the same occupants and come out smelling like a rose. I go to that one to join the Imperials, I die in seconds usually.

Add that with Master Difficulty, you got your problem. They do more damage and you do less the higher the difficulty.

how much more deadly can they get when they are 1 hit sometimes? Seriously, its an arrow, not a damned sniper bullet, I can understand ebony arrows, but not steel / iron w/ a hunting bow.....

I mean, I remember times with my previous mage, I would use dragon skin master alteration spell, and with 300 health and 85 percent damage resistance, a falmer would STILL one shot me... I mean...if someone can come down on me with a 2 handed axe with a power hit, and not kill me, an arrow to the toe should not as well.....

One hit all the time, andthe ability to dodge them is next to impossible.

that would mean being a mage would be impossible. No thank you. I mean, as I already stated, with 300 health and 85 percent damage resistance, I still got one hitted....no bow is that strong un smithed....

A mage would probably be one of the easier selections, just get behind a rock and mass produce antros until the archer is dead. Alternatively, just peak out for a millisecond so the archer misses you, and then imminently zap him with a spell or a missile weapon of your own.