![]() ![]() Silent Roll: (Sprinting while sneaking executes a silent forward roll.) Silent Roll is one of my favourite perks in the game and an absolute neccesity if you’re playing any sort of stealth based character.This is essential for the stealth portion of our playstyle. Deadly Aim: (Sneak attacks with bows now do three times damage.) One of the key perks in our build.Definitely a must have perk in a sneak build to prevent annoying and sudden trap deaths. Light Foot: ( You won’t trigger pressure plates.) This is super useful in dungeons.But we need to unlock it to get to Deadly Aim. Backstab: (Sneak attacks with one-handed weapons now do six times damage.) This is almost completely useless for our build because we’re not using melee at all.Muffled Movement: ( Noise from armor is reduced by 50%.) Helps you remain undetected and also needed to get to more important perks.Stealth: (You are 20% harder to detect when sneaking.) Take this once or twice in the early game and then wait until you really want to boost your sneak in the later game, after you’ve already unlocked some other key perks, before you sink more perk points into this one.Sneak: For landing stealth hits on enemies from afar.( Click here to jump back up to the Table of Contents) (Image source: UESP) As an Orc you also get starting skill buffs to Enchanting and Smithing, which are also part of our build. But thanks to the racial power Berserker Rage, which allows you to double your damage for a short duration once per day, an Orc archer can get some insane sneak hits in, doing 6 times damage if you have the Deadly Aim perk unlocked. This might seem an odd choice thanks to the bulkier body size of most Orsimer characters. ![]() “Wood elves make good scouts and thieves, and there are no finer archers in all of Tamriel.”Ī very close second pick would be an Orsimer, aka Orc. There’s also a nice roleplay element to the fact that Bosmer are renowned as archers in the lore of the Elder Scrolls. This also fits in nicely to our strategy of using companions and summoned beings to take the brunt of melee attacks while we pick off enemies with our bow. Your racial power is the ability to befriend an animal and have it fight for you once a day. You get a starting bonus to both Archery and Sneak, which are key skill trees for us. In this build I’ve gone with the Bosmer (aka Wood Elf). That being said the passive racial bonuses and active racial power that you get based on your choice can make a difference to your build. All races are able to learn all skills, so at the end of the day you really want to be prioritising the race that you most feel like playing. ( Click here to jump back up to the Table of Contents)Īs I’ve mentioned in a lot of other guides, race selection in Skyrim is less crucial to your build than you might think. Bound Bow: the Best Mid-Game Bow in Skyrim.The Best Shouts For Skyrim Archer Build.Good Early Game Bow for Skyrim Archer Build.Sneak Levelling for Skyrim Archer Build.Skyrim Archery Build Attributes to Choose When Levelling Up.But i’ve also laid out the sections below so that if you follow them in order, you will be guided from the very opening of your playthrough, to the late game. To make the guide easier to use for those searching for specific pieces of information found within, I’ve used clearly defined subheadings and a table of contents with jump links. The short video below shows a mid to late game example of our archer build in action, taking down a group of tough bandits in mere seconds. Instead, it’s a versatile combat archer, who can drop foes in one shot in sneak – but when all hell breaks loose – can also conjure powerful allies, slow time and take down enemies in the heat of battle. I wanted to do something slightly different though, so what follows is not your standard sneak archer build. This is funny because left to my own devices I’m probably most drawn to playing an archer in Skyrim and other RPGs. Perhaps because of these meme associations, I realised recently that I’ve written an “ultimate build guide” for almost every build you can think of in Skyrim ( Mage, Spellsword, Two-Handed, Unarmed, Vampire, Illusion Dagger Assassin), except for an archer. Why? Probably because it’s a fun playstyle that allows you to take down enemies from a distance with large damage multipliers thanks to Sneak perks. If you’ve been playing Skyrim for a while, and joined any sort of online community dedicated to the game, you’ve almost certainly come across the stealth archer meme.įor those unfamiliar with the meme, the gist of it is that no matter what intentions you hold going into a fresh Skyrim playthrough, one inevitably ends up becoming a stealth archer. ![]()
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