So I can smith a full Daedric outfit and bow, enchant it out the wazoo, but I cannot make any better arrows? I have to wait until my archery is at 100 to even buy them? I am currently at lvl 94 archery and I still rarely find Ebony arrows at smiths/fletchers. I wish you could smith arrows. Perhaps 5 arrows per ingot?

Yeah I don't know what they were thinking.

You can if you're on PC, with http://www.curse.com/mods/skyrim/arrowsmith.

I dont want to smith arrows. But I wish you could OP.

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.

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.

I like this idea.

Yea this is weird that you are not able to do this. Smithing daedric arrows would be awesome.

Yeah, it really seems like cooking and crafting were sort of just tossed in a few days before launch, lol seems very incomplete and looks as if there was hardly any thought put into it at all.

Yes, I was bummed out when I saw you can't smith arrows, why not bethesda?
I think 5 arrows per ingot seems fair.

Why? Every npc has them on them?

Cheers

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!

Right on!

I wished I could smith arrows like you.. but then I took an arrow in the knee.

forget smithing...i'd settle for enchanting.

They were thinking....."Hey, let's actually release Skyrim. Sure, we have 300 more things like crafted arrows we would like to add to the game, but the game kicks ass allready and we really can't wait another year to release it."



Just a guess

Wouldn't it be---- to fletch arrows? Not smith? :chaos:

I was thinking this same thing.


Wish you could craft your own arrows. Use wood from chopping wood and whatever metal it requires. AND if your feeling up to the enchantment area make things like fire, ice and shock arrows. Or how about cool arrows that trap souls

I wish enchanted arrows were in. They added a whole different speciality to your weapon selection for situations. Now it is just, well- ebony arrows R good. I'll use those.

Frenzy arrows? Slow arrows? Paralysis arrows? I guess this is accomplished with the poison system, but that still is a pain in the ass like oblivion.

i dont know if you meant that there was no reason to use it since all NPC's have them on them, if that is the case, not all of us want to run around with a top level archer that uses steel arrows, some of us want ebony arrows.

i have systematically collected 300+ ebony arrows through my times in skyrim, and only used them 5 times, and it was one hit kill every time

Considering I intend to use archery as one of my main skills on this game ( when I eventually get it) this is disappointing news. Still if you've got an awesome bow is there really that much difference in the kind of arrows you use?

Not a giant difference, but around 10-12dmg from iron to ebony.

I'm level 34 and have hundreds of orchish/elven/etc arrows, and I'm using iron/steel just to get rid of them. The bow is the only weapon i ever use, and there is no shortage of arrows out there. I'm beginning to see ebony arrows pretty regularly as well.

On an individual basis, no, since the best arrows (Daedric) only do 4 more damage than the next best (Ebony), however when you factor in sneak multipliers it starts adding up over a large sample of shots. As a dedicated Archer character will fire thousands of arrows over his/her career, that can be a rather significant difference in output.

There's also the 'character growth' aspect to consider: as one progresses through the game it is only natural to keep upgrading equipment (unless doing a 'challenge' run), so it feels rather silly to have a Legendary++ Daedric Bow and be firing Iron or Steel Arrows.

If one is willing to 'vendor-scum', which is basically (ab) use of the 'Wait' function while not in a town in order to force stock refreshes, then it is possible to amass large quantities of a given type of arrow; due to the way the restock mechanic works the chances of having any arrows of a quality higher than about Elven or Dwarven is rather low, however, so it can take an inordinate number of forced refreshes to get enough of the best stuff. Also, to the best of my knowledge you cannot buy Daedric Arrows at all, so their supply tends to be severely limited unless you get ridiculously lucky with Bandit Archers' loadouts.

Seriously, I find it stupid you cant. Why can I make bows if i cant make the damn arrows to go with them?

Yes, i guess it's unanimous.
Let TES VI let you smith and improve arrows.
Arrows with weight, of course.