Sometimes, when an arrow is shot, the arrow takes a couple of seconds to actually shoot after the animation shows it being "fired." The latter type of range, or maximum range, is a universal range between bows. After traveling a certain distance, somewhere around 60–65 yards, all arrows have a damage of 0. Arrows at this distance will most of the time clip through (pass through) enemies and land on the other side having done no damage. This will still cause animals and characters to become aware of the Dragonborn's presence and search for them, however this will not cause friendly characters to become hostile.

And I do like the Woodcrafting idea. I think it needs a bit more fleshing out, because we're talking taking up an entire primary profession slot. But it is a cool idea. Effectively, a shieldbow is similar to a one-handed crossbow wielded alongside a shield, although it fires a bit slower, its damage is the same. Its damage is about 33% lower than a shortbow's. They have the unique aspect of being both a two-handed weapon and a shield at the same time, allowing for use of defensive abilities.When crouched and aiming downwards (i.e. off a cliffside at a target below) the arrow will appear behind the Dragonborn rather than where it should. Would be neat if you could craft bows and arrows from a profession. Engineering makes the most sense, and Leatherworking also kinda works, although a new Woodworking profession would be cool. Fortify Marksman potions can be created or bought from merchants to temporarily increase the Archery skill tree. For an arrow, the basic components are a shaft made of wood and an arrowhead typically made from stone. 1 Simple Wood for the shaft and 1 Copper Bar for the arrowhead to make 200 Crafted Light Arrows is fine and comparable to Crafted Light Shot. When RuneScape 2 was released, bows had no visible bowstrings. Jagex fixed this with the RuneScape HD update.

Given it would take world resource nodes, i think it would need to be a Gathering profession, and not secondary. There is an aspect of reward for work, and not everyone can fell trees or mill them. So I think conceptually that's justified. The recipe for each craft includes a jewel and a magic/rare base item as well as the runes/gems shown below.Starting at 5 , each additional unit of weight added to the bow subtracts another 0.0125 shots/second, so a bow weighing 6 fires 0.5375 shots/second (1.86 seconds/shot). Bows have two types of range, arc range and maximum range. The former varies from bow to bow and is directly proportional to the bow's firing velocity. Arrows fired from a low velocity bow will come down in an arc earlier than arrows fired from a high velocity bow. To compensate for this shorter range, low velocity bows must be angled higher to hit targets at range. Many rangers choose the bow style of range weapon for its higher damage in comparison to crossbows and throwing weapons, and to fight monsters that are weak to arrows. Most bows sacrifice speed in comparison to their crossbow and thrown equivalents. The main disadvantage for bows is the fact they are two handed weapons whereas most crossbows and throwing weapons are only one handed, giving the flexibility to use them with any suitable off-hand weapon or shield. To make up for this, however, bows are able to use two-handed combat abilities that cannot be used with one-handed ranged weapons. Shieldbows are also able to use shield abilities in addition to two-handed abilities, a unique aspect which no other weapon type in the game offers besides the respective combat style defenders, high level arrows also tend to be stronger than high level bolts currently. This section contains bugs related to Bows (Skyrim). Before adding a bug to this list, consider the following: