Destruction Spells and Arrows Originating at feet level?

[edbgarcia]

Greetings:

 

I noted while playing that if I was standing behind a rock, obviously hoping it would grant me cover and thus make me harder at being struck by ranged attacks (spells or missile), when I would shoot from a bow or casted a destruction spell to a target downhill, it would appear to strike the object before me, despite that it may have only gone as high as my waist. I further experimented, and noted a small stone hardly higher than my ankles would block my arrow or spell shot. Is it my imagination?

 

Then I noticed, when shooting at a target up a flight of steps, while their body is mostly visible, when firing, I would hit the steps just in front of me as if the shot originated at my feet, am I wrong or is this bug?

 

If it is a bug, is there some fix? Or perhaps a game setting?

 

Thank you

 

Ed