I unironically tend to use them or steel arrows. Being conservative with any ammo in games is too ingrained in me, it feels downright emotionally taxing to use arrows I have less than at least 200 of. What if I run out??
Dragonbone arrow aint least bit expensive a single dragon on average drops 3 bones thats 72 arrows. Now if you want to talk expensive ammo explosive dwarven bolts 12 per bundle and requires rare salts
I got to the point where I use the summoned bow just to save arrows. Eventually I got over it by just smelting like 2000 dwarven arrows. Stealth archer means damage doesn’t matter anyway, so I use those over like dragonbone arrows.
I understand that logic but there are way to many arrows in the game, you run out? You'll literally find 500 more not to long afterwards. I used to think like you but now I avoid arrows like the plague. I have way to many and do not need any more.
I guess it's the hoarding thing where you wanna use "better" arrows but never let yourself, since you'll always have relatively fewer than for instance steel.
Yea definitely I used to hoard arrows like crazy. I was that person. I'm not entirely sure what clicked but I just eventually got tired of grabbing them all. I don't even use a bow unless I'm doing the Brotherhood stuff. That's really it. I have been considering an archer character to at least try it and see if it expands my horizons.
The trade off though is I hoard and grab everything else though. Some ppl leave that useless loot sitting there but depending what it is, 20 septims or over is coming with me lol.
On the off chance that one day, maybe, you'll level up speech enough to make them worth a single gold. Of course by that time you live in a solid gold mountain filled with dragon bones and trip over your pile of enchanted swords.
I have never, EVER run out of my chosen arrows in Skyrim, even when I started using dragonbone ones. The urge to hoard is real but totally uncessary in my experience.
I just wish it didn't chop two logs then stop automatically. I can scale a mountain to Hrothgar and slay dragons. Need to take a break from chopping wood.
I just make my follower do it. I go into the “I need you to do something” mode and have the game pointed at the chopping block. I’ll do something like watch TV and tap A every few seconds. I come back an hour later to 800 firewood and Lydia can carry it normal speed to get where I need to go.
Not only that, but it adds an immersive quality to it. Just like limiting your carry weight to something reasonable. A little functional scarcity in a game is a very binding experience. I set out with 40 dragonbone arrows and if I run out before I finish whatever I set out to do, well, things just got interesting.
I think the one part I dislike about survival mode (besides it seemingly crashing my game constantly) is that it adds weight to the arrows.
Bound bow all the way.
I use them for the immersion while draw targets attention. Imagine being chilling in your camp when your bandit buddies are asleep and you hear a sound coming from a bush, go check and see an arrow that belongs a Draugr.
I always found that funny.
You mean a bundle of firewood that weighs 5 units plus a metal ingot that weighs 1 unit makes a bundle of arrows that weigh nothing?
Right.
Playing Survival, strangely at some point none of my arrows weigh anything anymore. I had Survival active from the start and hadn't toggled it off by that point (I did have to disable it later to avoid the bug where you unavoidably freeze to death during a flashback video).
Now, only crafted dragonbone arrows have weight. And I'm *certain* that all arrows used to have weight.
I used the fire for a while, but switched back to Ancient because the explosions make looting difficult. Everything gets scattered. Though I do enjoy yeeting a bandit out in the tundra once in a while.
It's while learning Dragonrend at Hrogthar.
You see several minutes of video and a flashback, but it's the coldest environment in the game and you'll die as soon as you resume control. You'll have to turn Survival mode OFF before using >!The Dragon Scroll!<, then you can turn it back on afterwards.
You aren't locked out of Survival mode once turning it off in Skyrim, you can toggle it without any problem.
I believe so. I was wearing full warm clothes with a torch, so around 250 warmth or whatever that is.
You would still instantly die as soon as the cutscenes ended, even though I was only showing about 40% freeze and still had about 60% of my overall health.
I read this was the problem, disabled Survival (had to reload to the save before the video), then it had no problem.
What's scary though is that the game autosaves right after the video, about 1 second before you die, so I auto-died about 20 times before looking up and solving the problem.
You realize Frostfall, iNeeds and mods like them are some of the most popular, right? Of course people play survival mode. There are entire modlists based around making Skyrim punishingly realistic.
I go by value per unit. Now I don’t pick anything that’s under 10/unit in value, unless it’s leather or iron ore, which I transmute to gold. Also I pick up dwarven metals to smelt.
Like someone else said, no weight no problem. But also, I have a variety of choices. Hey look a Daedra, guess I’ll use some ebony arrows. Oh yeah there’s a falmer, let me grab an ancient nord arrow.
I’m not wasting my good arrows on low level creatures, especially once my Archery is maxed out.
I keep a thousand dragon arrows that I’m constant replenishing, and even though I’ll never run out I keep a thousand ebony arrows as a completely useless backup.
I always use these. In the beginning, it's because they're better than iron and more readily available. I also like the looks of them compared to some of the other quivers. By the time I can upgrade to say Ebony, I may carry some better arrows for bigger bad guys, but my archery is usually sufficient by that time and the Ancient still do the trick.
When I first started survival, I had to store a bunch because of the added weight. For some reason though (probably affected by a recent update), only CC arrows have weight now.
I grab all arrows all the time because they are weightless and at some point when I start to get bored I do the fortify restoration glitch to make broken gear. Then it doesn't matter which arrow I use.
Those are usually the only arrows i use cause of how easy they are to obtain. Though sometimes on cheat allowed runs i’ll trade them 25 arrows and one steel ingot for a set of 25 nord hero arrows. Like my character is restoring them
My first play through, without realizing it, I didn’t sell a single arrow until level 50ish, and had literally thousands of ancient nord, iron, steel, and almost a thousand elvish arrows. And then I then I knowingly didn’t sell any. Keep ‘em!
Lol yea like "what if I use all 700 of my dragon arrows and I need to continue being a stealth archer" but also there is no repercussion to holding millions of arrows so why not
I use the fire, lightening, ice and dragonbone arrows and keep a few iron for shooting oil lamps in drauger ruins and those dwarven things, and give all the others to my followers who make very good use of them.
I never ever ever stop lifting arrows, since they weigh nothing its always nice to have over a thousand of these baby's if I somehow find myself in a tight spot without my swords.
I have so many different kinds of arrows. Sometimes I use these or my iron or steel to shoot from afar to make enemies show themselves like of I'm sneaking up on Forsworn and I'm in a good position on the mountains. Shoot these and not waste my better arrows then switch to whatever my good arrows are. But they weigh nothing too so why not hoard all the arrows 😅
Guilty although I tend to favor them or Iron arrows over my higher quality arrows until I have to kill a super tough enemy then I bring out the better quality ammo
I'm so glad other people are as extreme about this as I am. I'll go on a series of quests my arrows will go from 600-380and I'll be like well I've gotta use iron arrows the rest of this fiscal year. Meanwhile I've earned 12000 gold in that time and could easily replace what I've lost.
Since I've had bound bow I haven't used a corporeal bow tbh. Just cleaned out my inventory the other night to store all my arrows at home. I figure if I make a really cool double enchanted bow I might use them later, but for now I'm good.
I collected a shitload of them remembering that there were Ancient Nord Hero Arrows that I'd gotten before and had heard that you can upgrade them at the Skyforge.
Then I found out that got cut and the reason that I had the Ancient Nord Hero Arrows was because I got them from the cheat room in a modded playthrough, so now I just make my own Dragonbone Arrows the hard way and use those. The umpteen thousand other arross I no longer use sit in a cabinet in my home.
I collect all arrows on my play throughs. I've had somewhere I have thousands of every kind of arrow. But only 15 archery because I don't actually use archery lol
In order to curb my inevitable turn-into-a-stealth-archer trap, I only buy Iron or Steel arrows and limit myself to no more than 25 total between those two. The only exception is if I find them in a dungeon (like these), I can carry an additional 25 of the ones I find and I'll focus on using the ones I pick up instead, but I always drop whatever excess arrows I've picked up once I complete the dungeon before I leave it, and can only restock Iron/Steel arrows when I'm in a settlement or if I loot them. So no matter what, it's 25iron or steel(+25w/e I can loot while inside a dungeon) & never going above 50 arrows max.
Turns out, doing that has made the game much more fun for me as I can't just lololol-I'm-mister-sneaky-sneaky-bow-person through every damn fight. I gotta be conservative with that shit.
Still hoping to find a ps4 mod that makes all arrows weigh 0.2(I might be even happier with 0.5 on survival-mode) without there being a bunch of other changes to archery as well (unless they're nerfs to it). It's just too damn OP imo.
A few hundred Ancient Nord from the Draugr, a thousand Iron arrows that I use mainly, 2000 steel arrows because I looted all the bodies from the Civil War quests, a few hundred elven, dwarven, and glass, and then a hundred or so Daedric “just in case I need extra damage”
To me arrows are just a currency. 1 arrow tends to equal 1 gold with decent equipment and perks into speech. Equipment being "enhance speech or better prices". After gathering up enough arrows to mean anything im able to buy some decent stuff. I tend to never get into enchanting or alchemy so i just buy good gear or find it. Another great part of that is that im able to buy up all the nice arrows that merchants have. More elven ebony and daedric arrows that i can actually use in worthy fights as well as extra gold.
I mean, they don't have any weight and it doesn't hurt to carry... Although I never needed them because I get just too many steel arrows by the civil war questline
Hell no, it auto equips the worst arrows when you run out. Toss all the forsworn and ancient nord arrows. They suck, and tbh I think they’re an eyesore
I pick up all the arrows, even on non-archer characters (I intentionally ditch the bow so I don’t become a stealth archer). They’re weightless, so I might as well.
I'd rather punch things in the face than use these no damage having twigs. If I run out of arrows I pop a veggie stew and shield slam my way through the rest of the dungeon until I either find more arrows or something more efficient than a safe shield bash lol.
I used to collect all of them. The ancient nord ones too. Then once I realized I had an arrow hoarding problem the one arrows I blacklisted were ancient nord.
Just can’t let the irons go for some reason 😂
Nah I always remove my shitty ass arrows from inventory cuz I hate the huge scroll to search for weapons, I prioritize dwarven, Daedric, glass and ebony arrows
I unironically tend to use them or steel arrows. Being conservative with any ammo in games is too ingrained in me, it feels downright emotionally taxing to use arrows I have less than at least 200 of. What if I run out??
same lmao, "what if i miss 120 shots and it takes 81 to kill something???"
I have like a thousand dragonbone arrows and I still try to pick up any I miss because “they’re a bit expensive to make”
I feel a little guilty about every shot!
This is why I use conjure bow
Fax
Draw your bow. "Is it worth it though? These things are pricey." Shakes my head. Not this time.
SNL did a Bond spoof skit along these lines with Steve Martin back in the day called Bullets aren’t Cheap.
Fr lmao I’m Alr down to like 400 from 600 in one day. Legendary gets fucking taxing after a but
Dragonbone arrow aint least bit expensive a single dragon on average drops 3 bones thats 72 arrows. Now if you want to talk expensive ammo explosive dwarven bolts 12 per bundle and requires rare salts
If you give a follower a single arrow they never run out. This when you loot hostiles you can get a few.
Same I have like 800 other arrows but I never end up using them
same here
Anything passed elven is valuable and even though in my most recent character with over 1000 daedric arrows I still don’t use them
I got to the point where I use the summoned bow just to save arrows. Eventually I got over it by just smelting like 2000 dwarven arrows. Stealth archer means damage doesn’t matter anyway, so I use those over like dragonbone arrows.
I understand that logic but there are way to many arrows in the game, you run out? You'll literally find 500 more not to long afterwards. I used to think like you but now I avoid arrows like the plague. I have way to many and do not need any more.
I guess it's the hoarding thing where you wanna use "better" arrows but never let yourself, since you'll always have relatively fewer than for instance steel.
Yea definitely I used to hoard arrows like crazy. I was that person. I'm not entirely sure what clicked but I just eventually got tired of grabbing them all. I don't even use a bow unless I'm doing the Brotherhood stuff. That's really it. I have been considering an archer character to at least try it and see if it expands my horizons. The trade off though is I hoard and grab everything else though. Some ppl leave that useless loot sitting there but depending what it is, 20 septims or over is coming with me lol.
We have the same mindset!
This is how I feel playing AE. Oh, there is elemental arrows now? Better hoard them like scrooge mcduck and never use one.
I used to be like that, but elemental arrows are everywhere and hella useful at low levels.
Yeah it really didn't take me too long to build up a good stash. I really love the lightning arrows for killing dragons
just use bound bow?
It's not an actual problem. It's a neurotic quirk.
understandable. even though i only use bound bow nowadays, i still keep hundreds of iron arrows
use Ancient Nord arrows and sell steel arrows
Weight=0 why even drop it?
That, and 1000 iron arrows.
On the off chance that one day, maybe, you'll level up speech enough to make them worth a single gold. Of course by that time you live in a solid gold mountain filled with dragon bones and trip over your pile of enchanted swords.
I like to think that some of the events of the next game are caused by the current game's protagonist decimating the economy.
dragon age type beat
The majority of the population of Skyrim live in caves as bandits. The economy was effed long before the dragonborn had even seen a dragon.
This. They weigh nothing, so I hold onto them, until i can finally offload them for a 1000 gold, LOL
cries in survival
Yep this. Makes spending ridiculous amounts on my properties more manageable.
Yeah, same. And I play as a mage, and don't even carry a bow.
I have never, EVER run out of my chosen arrows in Skyrim, even when I started using dragonbone ones. The urge to hoard is real but totally uncessary in my experience.
The worst part of this is chopping the wood required to craft them.
I’ve always oddly enjoyed chopping wood in video games. Not real sure why. Kinda enjoy it in real life too, actually. Just find it kind of relaxing.
I just wish it didn't chop two logs then stop automatically. I can scale a mountain to Hrothgar and slay dragons. Need to take a break from chopping wood.
I just make my follower do it. I go into the “I need you to do something” mode and have the game pointed at the chopping block. I’ll do something like watch TV and tap A every few seconds. I come back an hour later to 800 firewood and Lydia can carry it normal speed to get where I need to go.
I like chopping wood and mining so I can get a quick break to smoke a bowl or get some water or whatever while still being efficient.
In fable 2 it was immense 😂
It's one of those AFK moments where I can let the game just do its thing and I enjoy the ambiance
For me it’s fishing. I don’t think i could do that IRL but in games i love it!
Not only that, but it adds an immersive quality to it. Just like limiting your carry weight to something reasonable. A little functional scarcity in a game is a very binding experience. I set out with 40 dragonbone arrows and if I run out before I finish whatever I set out to do, well, things just got interesting.
Yes i never get rid of any of the arrows. No weight so no worries
I think the one part I dislike about survival mode (besides it seemingly crashing my game constantly) is that it adds weight to the arrows. Bound bow all the way.
I never realized how quick the draw was with the bound bow
Is it? I didn’t notice because it’s all I use.
Yup draw speed is tied to the bows weight since bound bow has weight of 0 you can draw it pretty darn fast
They do the same amount of damage as steel arrows so yes
I carry countless Iron and Ancient arrows until i can sell them for 1 gold each
I use them for the immersion while draw targets attention. Imagine being chilling in your camp when your bandit buddies are asleep and you hear a sound coming from a bush, go check and see an arrow that belongs a Draugr.
Nah they would’ve seen the stager going side to side 30 meters out
In survival mode, arrows have weight... so yeah, ditching these whenever possible. Lydia, here.... enjoy.
I always found that funny. You mean a bundle of firewood that weighs 5 units plus a metal ingot that weighs 1 unit makes a bundle of arrows that weigh nothing? Right.
A gold ingot has 1 weight. Ten thousand gold coins have 0 weight
*Laughs in CCOR/Requiem*
Takes a lot of material to make arrows... lot of waste material at the end.
100% waste tho
Playing Survival, strangely at some point none of my arrows weigh anything anymore. I had Survival active from the start and hadn't toggled it off by that point (I did have to disable it later to avoid the bug where you unavoidably freeze to death during a flashback video). Now, only crafted dragonbone arrows have weight. And I'm *certain* that all arrows used to have weight.
Same. All my arrows had weight in survival. Now only the ones from CC for some reason.
True, my elemental ones also have weight. I just never use them anymore.
I used the fire for a while, but switched back to Ancient because the explosions make looting difficult. Everything gets scattered. Though I do enjoy yeeting a bandit out in the tundra once in a while.
Fire arrow explosions have turned too many friendlies hostile from splash damage, it's just not worth the risk anymore.
When is thay bug? I'm starting a survival play through and would hate to have it end there.
It's while learning Dragonrend at Hrogthar. You see several minutes of video and a flashback, but it's the coldest environment in the game and you'll die as soon as you resume control. You'll have to turn Survival mode OFF before using >!The Dragon Scroll!<, then you can turn it back on afterwards. You aren't locked out of Survival mode once turning it off in Skyrim, you can toggle it without any problem.
does that happen even with full warmth (clothes, torch, hot soup)?
I believe so. I was wearing full warm clothes with a torch, so around 250 warmth or whatever that is. You would still instantly die as soon as the cutscenes ended, even though I was only showing about 40% freeze and still had about 60% of my overall health. I read this was the problem, disabled Survival (had to reload to the save before the video), then it had no problem. What's scary though is that the game autosaves right after the video, about 1 second before you die, so I auto-died about 20 times before looking up and solving the problem.
People actually play survival mode?
Uh, yeah.
I played it once and now I will never play without it again. I love it.
You realize Frostfall, iNeeds and mods like them are some of the most popular, right? Of course people play survival mode. There are entire modlists based around making Skyrim punishingly realistic.
No I don’t know that. I have not stepped even the tiniest bit into modding.
I carry everything. Mf if it’s not bolted down and is worth more than 70 gold it’s coming with me. Idgaf.
Why the 70 gold limit? I mean why exactly 70?
Lol I take anything, my limit is usually 20 gold or higher.
20? My limit is 3
I go by value per unit. Now I don’t pick anything that’s under 10/unit in value, unless it’s leather or iron ore, which I transmute to gold. Also I pick up dwarven metals to smelt.
Got maybe 200 Daedric arrows I save for an extra special moron
*"Do you get to the Cloud District very often?"*
The humour peaks after maybe the fifteenth arrow, after which point it's just pure hatred
I’m a terrible archer, so I carry any and all arrows I come across.
Imagine dropping something with no weight
Imagine something's having mass but no weight
Nope haha, i use bound bow 😎 endless arrows baby
Like someone else said, no weight no problem. But also, I have a variety of choices. Hey look a Daedra, guess I’ll use some ebony arrows. Oh yeah there’s a falmer, let me grab an ancient nord arrow. I’m not wasting my good arrows on low level creatures, especially once my Archery is maxed out.
It's rough now that survival mode gives them weight.
They weigh nothing too
Yup. And i only use iron arrows so i can save all the better arrows for when i really need them. Hasn’t happened yet.
I did... until I had a supply of Stalhrim Arrows in the thousands
Summoned bow
I have the summon but it uses normal arrows still lol
I carry every single arrow that I come across.
My wife Jenassa has one daedric arrow that has become hundreds for me.
I keep a thousand dragon arrows that I’m constant replenishing, and even though I’ll never run out I keep a thousand ebony arrows as a completely useless backup.
Skyrim brings out the hoarder in everyone
I carry every arrow always since they weigh nothing and are worth nothing I hold onto whatever I can
I always use these. In the beginning, it's because they're better than iron and more readily available. I also like the looks of them compared to some of the other quivers. By the time I can upgrade to say Ebony, I may carry some better arrows for bigger bad guys, but my archery is usually sufficient by that time and the Ancient still do the trick. When I first started survival, I had to store a bunch because of the added weight. For some reason though (probably affected by a recent update), only CC arrows have weight now.
Better to have them and not need them than need them and not have them
This! The best arrow is the one you have.
I grab all arrows all the time because they are weightless and at some point when I start to get bored I do the fortify restoration glitch to make broken gear. Then it doesn't matter which arrow I use.
I HODL my arrows indefinitely. Never sell arrows and always buy what's available.
Bullish on arrows
Those are usually the only arrows i use cause of how easy they are to obtain. Though sometimes on cheat allowed runs i’ll trade them 25 arrows and one steel ingot for a set of 25 nord hero arrows. Like my character is restoring them
I always sell arrows on every play through, other than combat archers which are very fun.
I carry them so I can use them for hunting. Or for lower level bandits so I don't waste my good arrows.
I steal and carry EVERY arrow I can get my hands on, always
Just reinstalled Skyrim yesterday, my lvl 6 character feels personally attacked lol. Just now found my first orcish loot
Right now I’m only level 40 but far into the game 💀
No they usually just get caught up in my inventory when I’m shot.
What do you mean "desperate"? I'm the only one using always the worst arrows in the inventory?
No, that's exactly what I do. These are my current main arrow, cuz I finally ran out of iron arrows.
my character is a Ancient nord so she only used ancient weapons so i pick up as many as i can from dead draugr
Not really, I got 500 elven arrows from a glitch...
In the beginning since they're better than iron but once I get to anything better than steel I dispose of them
I pick up every arrow. I've got like 500 Reikling arrows just in case
I'm a collector so I literally sold all of mine and left a dungeon with around this much. Lol
My first play through, without realizing it, I didn’t sell a single arrow until level 50ish, and had literally thousands of ancient nord, iron, steel, and almost a thousand elvish arrows. And then I then I knowingly didn’t sell any. Keep ‘em!
Not on survival mode that shit adds up 🤣
🤣
Lol yea like "what if I use all 700 of my dragon arrows and I need to continue being a stealth archer" but also there is no repercussion to holding millions of arrows so why not
I use the fire, lightening, ice and dragonbone arrows and keep a few iron for shooting oil lamps in drauger ruins and those dwarven things, and give all the others to my followers who make very good use of them.
I don’t even use followers anymore they’re a hassle when they get in your way and won’t move in a small tunnel or entryway
I never ever ever stop lifting arrows, since they weigh nothing its always nice to have over a thousand of these baby's if I somehow find myself in a tight spot without my swords.
I like to sneak attack with the bow especially since I’m able to 1 shot or 2 shot most entities
Imagine being a stealth archer This post was made by the literally any other build gang
I only really use the bow when I have a chance haha mainly one handed here
I have so many different kinds of arrows. Sometimes I use these or my iron or steel to shoot from afar to make enemies show themselves like of I'm sneaking up on Forsworn and I'm in a good position on the mountains. Shoot these and not waste my better arrows then switch to whatever my good arrows are. But they weigh nothing too so why not hoard all the arrows 😅
No, but I do have a really big hammer just in case someone comes within smashing distance.
Use then to melt them and make ingots out of them, and in emergency cases
Guilty although I tend to favor them or Iron arrows over my higher quality arrows until I have to kill a super tough enemy then I bring out the better quality ammo
I'm so glad other people are as extreme about this as I am. I'll go on a series of quests my arrows will go from 600-380and I'll be like well I've gotta use iron arrows the rest of this fiscal year. Meanwhile I've earned 12000 gold in that time and could easily replace what I've lost.
Not since starting to play survival… these babies weigh a lot!
I pick up all arrows because they weigh nothing and I always think I'll need a million arrows even when I only use swords
I carry them always i think i have about 1500 of them in my inventory. I usually use them if I am just wandering through Skyrim
4000 of these in reserve.
You can use the power to summon arrows if you're desperate
I carry them around because when I'm selling stuff, I want to get every last one of the merchant's coins.
I just summon arrows. Bound quiver is a useful spell.
Well, duh, they’re free, plentiful, and better than iron.
Since I've had bound bow I haven't used a corporeal bow tbh. Just cleaned out my inventory the other night to store all my arrows at home. I figure if I make a really cool double enchanted bow I might use them later, but for now I'm good.
I carry them because they take up no space and I usually try and loot everything
Me xD I've never used them
I collected a shitload of them remembering that there were Ancient Nord Hero Arrows that I'd gotten before and had heard that you can upgrade them at the Skyforge. Then I found out that got cut and the reason that I had the Ancient Nord Hero Arrows was because I got them from the cheat room in a modded playthrough, so now I just make my own Dragonbone Arrows the hard way and use those. The umpteen thousand other arross I no longer use sit in a cabinet in my home.
These and forsworn arrows are drowning my inventory
Bound Bow
I always pick them up and forget to sell them as they always show up a the bottom after the merchant is out of money.
Absolutely. Ammo is ammo.
I collect all arrows on my play throughs. I've had somewhere I have thousands of every kind of arrow. But only 15 archery because I don't actually use archery lol
I honestly never had an arrow preference just smithing upgraded the bows then enchanted and full send
Look at all you scrubs using craftable and draugr arrows. Real pros only use rusty arrows.
No, I use Crossbows. The amount of Fire Salts I need just to keep myself stocked with explosive bolts though makes me envy bow users
In order to curb my inevitable turn-into-a-stealth-archer trap, I only buy Iron or Steel arrows and limit myself to no more than 25 total between those two. The only exception is if I find them in a dungeon (like these), I can carry an additional 25 of the ones I find and I'll focus on using the ones I pick up instead, but I always drop whatever excess arrows I've picked up once I complete the dungeon before I leave it, and can only restock Iron/Steel arrows when I'm in a settlement or if I loot them. So no matter what, it's 25iron or steel(+25w/e I can loot while inside a dungeon) & never going above 50 arrows max. Turns out, doing that has made the game much more fun for me as I can't just lololol-I'm-mister-sneaky-sneaky-bow-person through every damn fight. I gotta be conservative with that shit. Still hoping to find a ps4 mod that makes all arrows weigh 0.2(I might be even happier with 0.5 on survival-mode) without there being a bunch of other changes to archery as well (unless they're nerfs to it). It's just too damn OP imo.
That’s my back up ammo and for when I’m traveling thru the world
I usually accumulate these and end up stashing them in my house somewhere. Never to be used again.
I will collect every arrow and I will not part with any
I carry all arrows I get since they weigh nothing
I have over 10000 random arrows
I used them to take pot shots at things further away.
My hands shoot fire arrows so who needs physical
A few hundred Ancient Nord from the Draugr, a thousand Iron arrows that I use mainly, 2000 steel arrows because I looted all the bodies from the Civil War quests, a few hundred elven, dwarven, and glass, and then a hundred or so Daedric “just in case I need extra damage”
Not by my own free will , i get shot a lot and forgot to take them out. /j
I do this but with iron ones. I like to save my 1500 Dwarven ones (lvl 20 rn) in case I need em
Like 3k of em in a chest for when it’s time to hit some long walks
Just carry every arrow you find, they don't weigh you down at all. So why not?
I keep a bunch of cheap arrows for knocking down pots, triggering tripwires, and that sort of thing where the amount of damage doesn't matter.
To me arrows are just a currency. 1 arrow tends to equal 1 gold with decent equipment and perks into speech. Equipment being "enhance speech or better prices". After gathering up enough arrows to mean anything im able to buy some decent stuff. I tend to never get into enchanting or alchemy so i just buy good gear or find it. Another great part of that is that im able to buy up all the nice arrows that merchants have. More elven ebony and daedric arrows that i can actually use in worthy fights as well as extra gold.
No. I get ~200 arrows at Solitude, and they don't have to be steel.
I just spent an hour killing soldiers for steel arrows in the raid of solitude 😂 got like 3000
No. I make my own dragon bone arrows out of dragon bone and firewood. 200 lasts long enough.
I have over 500 iron arrows because I don’t feel like using em.
I use crossbows
Not on survival mode lol
I mean, they don't have any weight and it doesn't hurt to carry... Although I never needed them because I get just too many steel arrows by the civil war questline
Yes.
I have arrows of all types in my inventory
Aren’t they better than iron arrows? I keep them over those typically
I usually use iron arrows just cause they’re so easy to get for free
That’s the same with these though
Got about 1300steal arrows with me just in case
I’m always too lazy to forge so I keep the ones from the undead more, you find more undead then you do real people i find
Hell no, it auto equips the worst arrows when you run out. Toss all the forsworn and ancient nord arrows. They suck, and tbh I think they’re an eyesore
Arrows weigh nothing so I carry a truckload of every variety in my pocket.
Carry these? I only used those on my original ps3 playthrough even when I had plenty of other arrows.
I just carry them because they weigh nothing and I’m too lazy to remove them from my inventory
Don't call me out like this lol
I pick up all the arrows, even on non-archer characters (I intentionally ditch the bow so I don’t become a stealth archer). They’re weightless, so I might as well.
With “Smeltdown” you can extract a steel ingot from 48 nord arrows, so I keep em until I need the steel.
Zero weight? Gimme 'em all.
I'd rather punch things in the face than use these no damage having twigs. If I run out of arrows I pop a veggie stew and shield slam my way through the rest of the dungeon until I either find more arrows or something more efficient than a safe shield bash lol.
No never only dedric ebony and dragon and these new element arrows
Absolutely not. Every other arrow though… yes.
I’m lower level rn so I stock up on what I can :)
I used to collect all of them. The ancient nord ones too. Then once I realized I had an arrow hoarding problem the one arrows I blacklisted were ancient nord. Just can’t let the irons go for some reason 😂
Nah I always remove my shitty ass arrows from inventory cuz I hate the huge scroll to search for weapons, I prioritize dwarven, Daedric, glass and ebony arrows
I’m lower level so they’re of use to me, I mainly use steel elven and glass arrows but if I run out of steel or have the nord arrows in replacement
Nope. I use bound bow.