I wish I could smith arrows! : V - Skyrim

» Wed Dec 14, 2011 7:19 pm

Arrows with weight, of course.

The hell with that. Have enough trivial crap adding weight as it is.

» Wed Dec 14, 2011 2:02 pm

The hell with that. Have enough trivial crap adding weight as it is.

Right on.

» Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:53 pm

I'd like to make my own arrows, as well, especially custom-style arrows with their own effects.

Even better if I could enchant arrows to have special effects.

In Oblivion, I hardly ever used archery as a skill, but I thought it was pretty cool how I could fire a an arrow with a fire or light enchantment down a dark cavern and watch how it lit its path like a flying torch.

» Wed Dec 14, 2011 4:39 pm

yeah im tired of the comments of... u can on pc...with a mod...if its a mod then no u cant. a mod is not part of the game. its something somebody else put in. And yeah i totally agree i wish i could smith them. and to be honest it should be more then 5 per ingot considering u arent giong to have insane amounts of ingots in the game at all times. and depending on how much u adventure arrows can go pretty quick. i wuld want mor eliek 15 per ingot. 20 might be stretching it tho. i mean getting rid of an ingot is an investment u know. so i want to get something out of it.

» Wed Dec 14, 2011 3:03 pm

Yes, I have also wondered this as well. I can do with 'em iron arrows for exploring and random mobs, but any ebony arrow I find is even rarer and more valuable than dragon souls.

Not sure if we are playing the same game. But I can buy Ebony arrows fairly decent price at some of the smiths and Dragon bones and scales are like $150 to $250 each??

» Wed Dec 14, 2011 2:18 pm

The Smithing of arrows has been outlawed in Skyrim due to a spike in reports of people taking arrows to the knees.

» Wed Dec 14, 2011 7:30 pm

I think some of you are missing the point. A scarcity of the better arrows leads to certain game-play considerations which makes playing an Archer more than simple pew-pew-lol. With an unlimited supply of Daedric Arrows (and the supply of Daedric Hearts is virtually unlimited once you do a certain quest even without "harvesting" them from specific spots - Daedric items are the only advanced items that can be crafted (but not improved) without taking the Perk), an Archer need not think, just shoot.

Essentially you are not only asking that the concept of ammunition be removed, but that you can fire the most powerful arrows in the game with impunity. Give me a break. Bethesda has better things to do with it's time and resources like, I don't know, allowing Destruction magic to come close to the damage of physical weapons.

For what it's worth, my Archer is lvl 36 and one/two shots mobs with Nord Arrows and that's without abusing the crafting system to make my character a god.

» Wed Dec 14, 2011 4:18 pm

Smiths, smith. Fletchers, fletch.

» Wed Dec 14, 2011 5:28 pm

There is a duplicate (any) arrow glitch if youre interested.

Video of how is on youtube.

I currently have 154 ebony arrows

» Wed Dec 14, 2011 1:52 pm

So they have hawk feathers, wood you can chop, and metal to make the arrow head, but they never thought about making arrows?

I have no clue what they were thinking!

Now you're bring back memories of Everquest. My favorite crafting skill was fletching.

» Wed Dec 14, 2011 3:00 pm

Smiths, smith. Fletchers, fletch.

Yes, but sadly the word "fletch" and it's variants are subject to a decidedly revolting, and painfully common, typo. Let's not risk people looking that up and being scarred for life.

» Wed Dec 14, 2011 5:44 pm

The Smithing of arrows has been outlawed in Skyrim due to a spike in reports of people taking arrows to the knees.

I'm sorry I have really horrible aim so apparently the knee is the new head...

» Wed Dec 14, 2011 8:40 am

I thought I missed it that option too when I was around level 20 and 50 archery. Then I downloaded a mod ... Now level 36 with 86 archery and still haven't made any arrows yet. Guess it wasn't a big issue for me afterall.

I have found about 50 ebony arrows. Most of them came from Dwarven Centurions.

» Wed Dec 14, 2011 10:29 am

eh....why are you guys using ebony ? am i one of a select few who knows how to get Daedric arrows or something ?

» Wed Dec 14, 2011 5:56 am

eh....why are you guys using ebony ? am i one of a select few who knows how to get Daedric arrows or something ?

I'm not sure what the best arrows are I've only gotten up to glass.

» Wed Dec 14, 2011 10:00 am

I'm not sure what the best arrows are I've only gotten up to glass.

im collecting them atm because...they have the best looking quiver after orcish imo

(for a rogue-ish char)

Spoiler

at one point early on-ish in the game the fletcher in Solitude will sell one single Daedric arrow. what you do is give that single arrow to your follower and take every other weapon off her/him so she/he becomes an archer (i think use of the default bow is important but it doesnt gimp them much as the arrows pick up some of the slack pluas mines has a few +archery pieces of gear). after that you can loot Daedric arrows from anything they shoot. they will produce constant Daedric arrows just like they do with their default arrow.

if you are going stealth it will be kinda crap early on so its kind of a good time to run around with a follower anyway plus an archer follower is pretty good as they dont get in your way much and generally stay far back.

i also believe you can reverse pickpocket a single arrow onto some practising archers in the thiefs guild or something somewhere thereby turning them into arrow producing machines but i haven't got there yet to fully check out that report yet. atm im using Orcish (just for the look

) but i have a fair bundle of Daedric saved for later

» Wed Dec 14, 2011 7:52 pm

5 arrows per ignot, and you need to chop wood for the arrow shaft. Maybe even need feathers too.

Being self-sustainable is how I like to play most of time, so I'm all for this.

Exactly how I'd implement it.

I'd also want to improve my pick-axe so it 1: mines faster and 2: makes more damage so I can actually use it as a weapon.

» Wed Dec 14, 2011 3:22 pm

Mod for smithing arrows: http://www.ugo.com/games/skyrim-mods-vals-crafting-meltdown

» Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:07 pm

Probably should've been implemented in the vanilla game but meh, oh well. I'm having a blast on my new archer character. Smithing my own arrows and tanning my own leather makes me feel completely self-sufficient and it fits with my dude's ranger-ish background.

» Wed Dec 14, 2011 9:55 pm

While we're at it, why not dragon weapons as well? I'm fine with them not being as powerful as Daedric, I just want a matching set of gear.

Also... why no perk for upgrading iron and leather? Couldn't that be part of the basic steel perk you'd be getting anyways?

» Wed Dec 14, 2011 5:55 am

Yes, but sadly the word "fletch" and it's variants are subject to a decidedly revolting, and painfully common, typo. Let's not risk people looking that up and being scarred for life.

You'll need arrow heads, won't you, Fletcher?