This is really..really bothering me. Last week the damage rating was 62,...and last night it was 40.
What can I do to get it back to the higher level?

Is this common?

Thanks

Hmmm can't say I've ever heard of this happening. I'll do some quick research and see if I can find anything.

Were you using anything to fortify marksman before?

Check your archery skill, see if its drained. Ive had a glitch with archery where randomly my archery skill would be at 25 (instead of like 75) and i had to turn off the game and turn it back on and all of a sudden it was back to normal. no disease or nothing, dont know if its some sort of glitch or what causes it.
If thats not it, then i dont know what to tell you. Maybe you were wearing a ring or piece of armor that fortified archery damage beforehand?

You patched the game, originally arrows added a flat damage then in 1.5 it was effected by fortify archery effects. This was not intentional and was removed in the following patch.

My archery skill as it 97.

You may or may not have had a Fortify Archery effect.

I did just add the patch for 1.7 the other day on PS3? Is this a known bug?
Can masks, armor etc. change the damage level of an enchanted weapon? This is news to me.

They can if they have the 'Fortify [INSERT SKILL HERE]' enchantment. They won't change the power of the enchantment, but they will change the weapon's non-magical damage.

Patch 1.6 (1.7 for ps3) fixed a bug with bow damage so that's why your damage went down

http://www.gamesas.com/user/769697-jslayer66/....please explain your post? What was the bug with bow damage?

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