This video covers the best arrow for each creature, biome, and scenario. This video is intended to be a quick reference for players selecting their arrows for their next fight. I hope this helps! If we realize we've made any significant mistakes we'll update the description.
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:07 Meadows
0:33 Black Forest
1:25 Swamp
2:35 Mountains
3:14 Plains
4:23 Mistlands
5:10 Results
5:23 Outro
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As a main archer I can confirm that Frost are the arrows to go with. But, I am ok with you about carrying mainly wooden ones. Actually I only play with wooden till Mountains and then use Frost for Plains and Mists since slowing Fulings is so important and Seekers take a lot of elemental damage. I was playing in a multiplayer server and with a bows skill of 80 I was dealing the highest amount of damage of the group. In some cases while clearing Fuling camps I didn't even let the Berserker come close to us. Bow (I stick with Draugr Fang) is so powerful in this game and Frost arrows will give to it the ability to inflict 3 types of damage: frost, pierce and poison. Nice video man, keep it up!
Thanks, we appreciate it! I usually start using frost arrows in the Mistlands but I think I'll probably start using them in the plains on my next playthrough since it would make life much easier with our no-death runs.
Thanks for the video, I didn't realize how op the frost arrows were! I'll certainly be using them more in the future
Glad we could help!
This is good information, but I do want to give a little gameplay experience, because the raw numbers can be a bit misleading in spots. There are monsters with a lot of health, and high resistance to pierce, and these can be difficult to kill with bows, even if you're using the right arrows. Sometimes it might be better to take them with something besides bows because of this. Abominations, Bonemass, Yagluth, and stone golems. Abominations are best killed with fire arrows if using a bow, but it is a bit tedious, and it will take a lot of shots. Stone golems can be taken down with pierce arrows, also a bit tedious, but doable. Bonemass is nigh invincible to all arrow types except frost. You'll need about 100 to take him down. My first attempt at killing Yagluth was with a couple hundred silver arrows, since he's vulnerable to spirit. That was a big mistake. I ran out of silver to make more arrows, spent several in-game days trying it, then resupplied with frost arrows to see how that would work, and they were a little better, but not by much. Finally, I lost patience, and did melee with a silver sword, and he died quite quickly. There are also monsters with very low hp, or which move too fast to easily hit with arrows. You aren't going to efficiently kill bats with any kind of arrows, because you just can't hit them. They'd die if you did, but you need a melee weapon there. Any non-star boar or deer hit by a sneak attack with any arrow, any bow, with zero bow skill will be an instant kill. In general, it is a mistake to make any kind of metal arrows, bronze, iron, or silver. These are far outclassed by later cheap pierce arrows in terms of pierce, and there just isn't a strong enough advantage you could get from any of these on any monster. They are, however, worth using if you find some of them in loot when they're still stronger than the cheap pierce arrows. In practice, though, I typically only use these against trolls or draugr. I find it useful to organize the biomes in three tiers. The first is the first two biomes, the second is swamp, and the third is everything else. In the first two biomes, fire arrows do the most raw damage to everything except trolls. Pierce arrows do the most to trolls, and wood arrows are cheaper than flint arrows. The most important thing here is to get to a finewood bow as quickly as possible, rather than worry about arrows. Not only does it do more damage, but it doesn't have the lousy arrow drop of the crude bow. In the swamp, I carry wood, pierce (usually flint, but sometimes found bronze or iron), and fire arrows. Fire arrows are only really useful for abominations and wraiths. Wraiths especially can be quite dangerous, but can be one-shot by a sneak attack with a fire arrow, and even if they sneak up on you, can be killed pretty quickly with fire arrows. You'll start finding poison arrows in loot, and they are quite good, but not in the swamp, where essentially everything is immune to them. IIRC, poison can work on leeches, but they're not terribly hard to kill with regular pierce arrows. After the swamp, I carry pierce, poison, and frost arrows. As soon as you start getting obsidian, switch from flint arrows to obsidian. As soon as you get needles, switch to needle arrows, etc. Poison arrows can be quite powerful, especially if you get a sneak attack. But poison doesn't stack, so if you're spamming arrows at a target, poison arrows aren't the answer. So normally, I'll use a poison arrow for the first hit on a dangerous monster, and also when I'm hunting drakes in the mountains, since sometimes you can one-shot these with a poison arrow even if they spot you first. Then, for dangerous monsters, I'll switch to frost arrows to follow up, and I'll use normal pierce arrows for other stuff. For dealing with fuling camps, I use a huntsman bow with poison arrows, since the huntsman bow is less likely to alert nearby monsters. You can kill off most of a village from a distance if you're careful. If a monster survives the first shot, or a group is alerted, I'll switch to draugr fang and frost arrows, or melee. Frost arrows are especially helpful against the berserkers, to slow them down. I typically don't use wood arrows past the swamp, but the advice to use them makes sense, especially if you're talking about someone who isn't using bows as their main weapon. It's fairly easy to get decent amounts of feathers from the early game, just by shooting seagulls who happen to land near your base in the meadows when you happen to see them, but plain wood is even easier to get, so that choice makes sense.
This is interesting stuff, appreciate the effort to make this 👍
Glad you enjoyed it!
No wrong, wood arrow is superior in the hole game, yes the other do more dmg but not as mutch more then the wooden so not worth the farm jobb. The only important is the bow!
only on boss battles its worth the jobb!
You are lacking content if you have to make a video about best arrow
It was a relatively quick video to make since my program already outputs the arrow excel file. I figured I'd put it out since it could help out some new players, players experiencing a new biome for the first time, or players who are trying to optimize their gameplay without needed to run the numbers themselves.
@@back-to-basics-gaming you don't need number,just a understanding of weakness to a certain type.*Fire good versus ice*even new player understand that,and they can read numbers. it's all on description of the arrows
If you don't like it, why are you here? Pedantry your forté?
I mean sure... Frost arrow is good now... But hows it going to help when we get to Ashlan... Oh wait... Right.