ebony bow does 137 damage, does that sound rite : V

» Thu May 31, 2012 10:50 am

i have most perks for archery, apart from last and smithed to superiour, im just worried a mod or patch has messed it up or something, seems a bit high

» Thu May 31, 2012 5:37 am

People are reporting higher bow damage since 1.5, but if you have used most of your perks on Archery then it's possible that it is the correct damage. Have you improved the bow through smithing?

» Thu May 31, 2012 7:13 am

Base Damage + Enchantment(s) + Overdraw Level 5 Perk (Archery) + Deadly Aim (Sneak).

It can add up.

» Thu May 31, 2012 5:07 am

Perhaps the perks now effect the base damage of the bow and the arrow instead of just the bow.

» Thu May 31, 2012 10:47 am

yeah its smithed only to superiour, i have allmost every perk aprat from the very last one, i have no sneaking perks

» Thu May 31, 2012 2:36 pm

Bow damage is messed up. It's pretty insane that my 75 bow skill with no perks almost does the same damage as my fully perked 1h skill & fully upgraded chillrend.
Somehow though I think it was intentional just to show off the new ranged kill cams. It'll be patched along with an "oops" I reckon.

» Thu May 31, 2012 1:24 pm

yea my forsworn bow legendary is doing like 80 damage when i have lvl 25 Archery.
My smithing skill increased from 30-71 from making 3 leather bracers.

» Thu May 31, 2012 2:10 pm

Skyrim 1.5
Archery Level 100

Ebony Bow Damage 97

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If I employ both of the following:
Hide Bracers of Major Archery : Bows do 25% more damage
Krosis (light armor): Lockpicking, Archery, and Alchemy are 20% stronger
Total Ebony Bow Damage: 117

Your choice of arrows will further increase the damage.

» Thu May 31, 2012 3:46 am

My smithing skill increased from 30-71 from making 3 leather bracers.

This sounds like a known conflict with more crafting mod.

» Thu May 31, 2012 7:50 am

man im so thick sometimes, ive also got a helmet of extreme archery and boots that do 21% more damage, im sometimes too quick to thinking a mod is messing stuff up, so with all that its about rite then, i think thats about rite, im no good with math so i wont even try work it out, ebony helemt of extrme archery does 35% more damage, ive been getting some lucky finds seems as though i play a archer character, cuz im wearing ebony armour too

» Thu May 31, 2012 12:12 pm

man im so thick sometimes, ive also got a helmet of extreme archery and boots that do 21% more damage, im sometimes too quick to thinking a mod is messing stuff up, so with all that its about rite then, i think thats about rite, im no good with math so i wont even try work it out, ebony helemt of extrme archery does 35% more damage, ive been getting some lucky finds seems as though i play a archer character, cuz im wearing ebony armour too

Enjoy it all, you worked hard to locate the helpful equiprment. Now you are a real archer, go get those dragons lad! :biggrin:

» Thu May 31, 2012 1:33 pm

so not sure if it has any relevance.

when i first started playing skyrim, all vanilla. I had 100 smith and not 100 enchant at the time. I made 2 glass bows(which im still using) that have way higher damage then any other glass bow i have been able to create since.

the originals (at this point with skills) are saying 364 damage on them, while any new ones i make only have like 225 or so. it wouldnt be a real problem but I have 2 enchantments that are only 15 damage each. I made 2 new bows with 35? damage per the 2 enchantments, but the damage on the bow says its way lower.

» Thu May 31, 2012 7:16 pm

Bows are bugged, before the patch my Ebony bow did 17 damage now it does 30 lol

» Thu May 31, 2012 11:52 am

Bows are bugged, before the patch my Ebony bow did 17 damage now it does 30 lol

There do seem to be some strange things happening but the one you describe may not be one of them. In 1.5, the arrow damage has been added to the bow damage so going from 17 to 30 would be normal if you have a 13 damage arrow selected. If you change the type of arrow, you'll see the difference.

» Thu May 31, 2012 3:56 pm

Has anyone found a wiki that gives accurate leveling increases? Damage particularly. Since I posted in the other thread I have been trying to find one. That thread calls the increases in damage massive, which I don't see. But damage increases don't add up right. I have a Lengendary Glass Bow with 50 damage. If I add ancient Nord arrows, 10 damage, I now have a 71 damage bow. And the damage in the menu tray reads 81. I have a 52 level in archery and 3 Overdraw perks selected for 60% more damage. Not sure if this is bugged or I just don't know the right formula.

» Thu May 31, 2012 11:50 am

yea my forsworn bow legendary is doing like 80 damage when i have lvl 25 Archery.
My smithing skill increased from 30-71 from making 3 leather bracers.

LOLWUT?

» Thu May 31, 2012 3:45 am

http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1360159-massive-increase-in-archery-damage-post-patch-installation/

https://unofficialskyrimpatch.16bugs.com/projects/7078/bugs/223056

I posted some findings at the latter link, check the comments.

» Thu May 31, 2012 5:41 am

Bow damage is being displayed differently, that's all. Previously you had to calculate for yourself the combined damage of your bow and whatever arrow type you had equipped. Now it calculates for you. Just unequip all arrows and you'll see your bow damage drop, then you can test further by equipping different arrow types and your bow damage adjusts accordingly.

» Thu May 31, 2012 3:02 am

Bow damage is being displayed differently, that's all. Previously you had to calculate for yourself the combined damage of your bow and whatever arrow type you had equipped. Now it calculates for you. Just unequip all arrows and you'll see your bow damage drop, then you can test further by equipping different arrow types and your bow damage adjusts accordingly.

yeah ive only just realised this, i like it though, cuz were not all good at math

» Thu May 31, 2012 8:49 am

Bow damage is being displayed differently, that's all. Previously you had to calculate for yourself the combined damage of your bow and whatever arrow type you had equipped. Now it calculates for you. Just unequip all arrows and you'll see your bow damage drop, then you can test further by equipping different arrow types and your bow damage adjusts accordingly.

Thank you! Now we can stop griping about our bows doing "too much" damage.

» Thu May 31, 2012 4:56 am

On a slightly different tack though, my bow has disappeared since 1.5. That is to say, I still have it and can use it, but it no longer appears in my inventory. It was only looking at this thread that made me want to check its damage - but I can't tell lol! It's a dwarven sphere crossbow, which I never even heard of before but looted as it had some silly stats way over any bows I could make or buy.

» Thu May 31, 2012 4:05 pm

On a slightly different tack though, my bow has disappeared since 1.5. That is to say, I still have it and can use it, but it no longer appears in my inventory. It was only looking at this thread that made me want to check its damage - but I can't tell lol! It's a dwarven sphere crossbow, which I never even heard of before but looted as it had some silly stats way over any bows I could make or buy.

There are no crossbows in the game useable by players as far as I'm aware. So it's either a mod you downloaded or you added it via the console - quite often modded things won't work properly when a new patch is released. Just googled and you can add one with this command "player.equipitem 0010ec8a", so I'm guessing that's what you did?

» Thu May 31, 2012 6:13 am

Mine makes 230

» Thu May 31, 2012 4:36 pm

never mind. Forgot I had Krosis on. Thought the update changed something. It didn't.

» Thu May 31, 2012 1:43 pm

Someone did a test on this.. too lazy to search for the tread right now, but the basic findings were that the tool tip that displays how much damage you do is wrong because it's counting the arrow's damage twice for some reason. Bows don't actually do any more damage than they did in any earlier patches; they just broke the tool tip that displays the bow's damage in patch 1.5.

The poster tested it with a drauger that he spawned using console commands with a specific amount of health and checked the drauger's health using console commands after shooting it with different types of bows with different arrows and different skill setups.