So, I know we are all waiting patiently for Dawnguard to come out, and meanwhile hunting down any information we can scrounge from the interwebs. But there are a couple things I have yet to find out (for sure):

1) Can vampire lords obtain / craft crossbows? (Surely you fight some dawnguard at some point, if they can't be crafted. Everything I've read so far seems to say that the Dawnguard have almost exclusive ownership of crossbows.)

2) I've read that magical bolts for crossbows can be crafted. Can we now craft arrows / magical arrows as well? Wouldn't make sense to be able to craft bolts but not arrows.

If anyone has information on either of these that has a bit of validity, I'd love to know!

Sorry I don't know, but would like to know as well. I'm planning on making a ranger type char using crossbows.


Edit: Grammar error.

I still don't understand why arrow crafting was never put in, but hopefully seeing as we can craft bolts, we can craft arrows too.

Yes for the first one. You will be able to take crossbows from fallen Dawnguard at the very least. Not sure on the second question though.

im guessing vamps can get a few crossbow models from enemies or crafting
but the upper types and unique ones are reserved for actual dawnguard members as rewards

If you are a vampier you will probably kill dawnguards who will have crossbows. So either way you will have them

Yeah, I currently have a ranger-class vampire who....as you might have guessed I was planning on putting into the vampire lords.


That's what I'm saying! Why introduce a method to craft bows but no method to craft arrows? Makes no sense. Unless they were trying to limit the number of daedric arrows in the game for some reason...but that's just silly.


Yeah, I was pretty sure that we would be able to get crossbows from fallen Dawnguard - but do you know whether they can be crafted or not?

Let's just wait and find out this coming Tuesday.

Only problem with that would be picking the vampire lord string on my archer only to find I'm SOL with crossbows.

1: If you are doing the Civil War side quest and you are either Stormcloak, or Imperial. Can you still obtain the other factions armor?

2: I don't see why we couldn't. We can craft every weapon type.(Besides staffs for some strange unknown reason.).

Fair enough on the first part - and like I said, (which I suppose I should edit the original post) I'm more interested in whether crossbows will be craftable or not, I kind of figured that we could pick them up from dead bodies; however, I doubt that your run-of-the-mill dawnguard thug will be toting a dragonbone crossbow - which I intend to be.

On the second part, it's a bit tougher than that...yes we can craft every weapon type, but we can't craft arrows. Their addition of bolt-crafting (and magical bolts) is one thing, but whether they're ALSO adding those options for arrows or not is another matter. There is a lot of assumption going on over these points, and I was hoping for some evidence - which I know is a lot to hope for

Did you not watch any trailers? There is a vamp lord USING a crossbow. Of coarse they can use them.

Why would an entire new weapon class, something that has been requested since Morriwind no less, be niched into a choice and unusable otherwise lol? That would be laughable.

Have not seen that trailer I suppose. Link?

THERE ARE MODS THAT SOLVE THAT IN THE PC!

Xbox360 guy here, dunno about him. So no mods for us .

That a good idea if they did it, giving the Dawnguard atleast some exclusivtivy. It seems the Vampire Lords are getting the most exclusives. Hopefully Dawnguard get WEREBEARS!!!!
Some cool new fire weapons/spells would be cool

From what I understand you are forced to join the Dawnguard at the very start so perhaps then you can get a crossbow..their armor and what not?

Then you can jump ship when given the choice to the Volkihar vampires like I am.

I'm thinking at the moment the only special thing Dawnguard long term members get is enchanted bolts..fire and ice and shock ones and armored troll companions (going off the wiki) which you may get by doing their quests and staying with them shrugging off the temptation of power by being bit the strongest Vampires in TES lore the Volkihar.

Are those exclusive? I was under the impression those were crafted.

I imagine you can find them on fallen dawnguard, but the dragon bone crafting and the bolt crafting, and maybe special crossbows will be dawnguard limited. If not, no one would play dawnguard (other than role play purposes)

I thought dragon bone crafting was going to be under dragon smithing?

your probably right my bad

It is. We were talking about the magic bolts.

I would play Dawnguard just to stare at the beautiful castles shown in the trailer. And to see how the new dungeons look.

Wait magic bolts? I heard about crafting bolts but not magic kind.

Yeah, magic bolts have been confirmed, and I'm halfway positive crafting them has been confirmed as well, so they should be available all around.