Here's a useful tip I found: if you want to steal something when someone is nearby, hold the button down to pick it up and move out of their line of sight so you're hidden. Then you can safely steal it.

Yeah, line of sight is key. My FAVORITE way to go about this however, is to place a basket on their heads.

Good call though... will likely make it to the next edit.

No, it looks totally (well sorta) different too. DIfferent arrow head, and it's shorter. It "fits" inside the crossbow the sphere's use. Also, dwarven arrows have base 14 damage, this is like an ebony arrow (20) and available at the very start. (mostly).

There's also the giant club, but that weapon is just too silly to let a follower use (excepting Cicero). That's why I didn't mention it.

Here's a useful tip I found: if you want to steal something when someone is nearby, hold the button down to pick it up and move out of their line of sight so you're hidden. Then you can safely steal it.

¨58) Another little trick is you can FUS pressure plate traps to activate them, or shoot them with arrows. -Haggar (and me). Works with trip wires too, if you're a REALLY good shot. I bet same with bear traps, but I haven't tested. In the same vein, fire runes in that oil on the floor is a great way to ruin a draugr's day.¨
yes you can shoot arrows at bears traps.i din′t now you can shoot trip wire.awesome

Perhaps deadric could. I've never tried "half shots"... never occurred to me.

However, this is referring to "real" stuff, not glitching your smithing, enchanting and alchemy up to insane levels.

I'm not sure if you're talking about just the "standard" loop (which is perfectly OK in my book) to use, but WITH QUICKSHOT a Bound Bow fires about 3 shots per single daedric shot. I"ll definitely recheck some things, but unless you're using max power enchants (with the aspect of terror) I'm nearly positive daedric can't get to 3x Bound Bow damage "legitly". You are "correct" though, that by glitching it could easily surpass the damage with enough smithing. That said, you could just "super' enchant some archery gear for the same effect (and BBow would also benefit).

Worth mentioning is that a BBow in any case is the (far) better choice, since you CAN'T fire 3 daedric shots with any kind of damage as quickly as a full charged BBow shot. Unless you're fighting something with huge HP (lookin at you Krosis) BBow will take out more targets faster. I'll check again with full powered V/N + destruction perk enchants, and highest smithing obtainable v BBow, but I'm still pretty sure the BBow reigns supreme. You know, I take it back. I bet you're correct. Double enchants is another 70 damage... I'll check, but you might just be right about this. I'll leave it in for posterity however.

hey cougarman21 here!

Yeah I meant without the Restoration glitch, with simple smith/enchanting. Actually try it out in-game against something with lots of health, e.g. Mammoth. You will end up killing far faster with smithed weapons late-game than Bound Bow. This is especially true if you start off with a sneak attack. In addition, the heavier bows benefit more from Quick Shot (30% faster draw speed) than the lighter bows, since while the perk mitigates their lengthy draw times, all bows will still have to spend the same amount of time nocking an arrow and recoiling after the shot.

Faster lighter bows obviously benefit more when using certain enchantments such as Paralysis or Absorb H/M/S, or with the Power Shot perk as you're more likely to cause enemies to stagger with multiple shots.