So i saw in a video interview of a Bethesda guy he mentioned "There will now be Dragonbone weapons which are stronger then Deadric, and you can even craft bolts for the crossbow." I realize since Dawnguard is in beta phase this might not be in dawnguard with such a late request (if it isn't already) but Bethesda pleaseeeee make it possible to create arrows (for bows). Deadric arrows are so rare you either never use them, or you use them and even with a 100% accurate archer, you will run out of the few hundred you found in no time since 5 shots into a target regularly returns only 3 or so. Ebony is the only realisitic one, They aren't very abundant, but they are just enough that you can sleep for two days and farm them off a vendor.

While on the note of vendor farming, my biggest pet peve in skyrim is the vendor system. Even with maxed out speechcraft, the best vendors will still only have about 1500-2500 gold. On my ps3 most were 2500, but on xbox i guess i have a glitch where the 1000 gold lvl 100 speechcraft perk doesn't work. When i raid a dungeon (especially one with draugrs) i get so much ebony, gems, etc etc that just one dungeon can give me about 30,000 gold worth of items. Try selling 30,000 worth of items to someone that has a cap of 1,500. Even worse, i have individual items worth 7000-11,000. Even if i bought the vendors entire inventory, he still wouldn't have that much. Basically any ebony item i get (which i get a lot of off draugr deathlords) is worth 1,000-3,000. but when i improve it from smithing, it becomes worth 5000,7000. after enchantments add another 1,500. Deadric items i literally have to give away for 85% off. I probably spend a good 50% of my in game time just dealing with vendors.

It's not just there money cap that i want improved, but inventory. Say you need 20 deadra hearts. The guy in the winterhold callege sells 2 at a time. You can get more, but you have to "rest" for 2 days inbetween each point. So to get 20 you have to rest for 20 days. That alone is like 10 minutes of in game time. Theres plenty of stuff i want lots of, have the gold to do it (after spending so much time with vendors to earn it) but my biggest issue is time. I want to spend most of my in game time in the game, not in a friggen vendors menu.

So i think the vendors need two things to give them a face lift. The first, is allow the player to invest as much as he want in a vendor (maybe capped out at 10000) but the investment costs 10x as much as the resulting vendor inventory. In other words, if you give them 10000g investment, there inventory gold will go up 1000g. If you invest 100,000g, they get 10,000g. I say that is well balanced. The other is bring some sort of special vendor into the world that "knows how to get things" basically anything in the game he can get you in bulk, but it'll cost a lot, and take maybe a week or even a month for him to get. want 1000 deadra hearts? Ok instead of 250,000g, that'll be 2,500,000g (10x the amount) want 1000 deadric arrows? no problem. want 600 of a specific alchemy ingredient? etc. I would much rather place an order, go play the game by raiding dungeons or whatever, and return having all that i need waiting for me, instead of spending 50 hours milking the current vendors to get a fraction of what i want/need, and maybe 10 hours in the actual story/quest/exploring/etc.

The elder scrolls is hands down my fav game series, but it'll never be perfect because each player has there own opinion and most are different then others. But i feel most will agree milking vendors is by far the most exhausting part of the game. I left World Of Warcraft after the repetition of milking dungeons/raids.