Making Archery Worthy of Its Name

[Sarissi]

I have figured out the parameters to make Archery a useful skill. This require Modding your own Bows and Arrows and requires the Construction Set for Oblivion. Most of us know how much archery sucks in the game for the player. I was a very good archer and archery teacher in my day. Even though I can no longer engage in it, I can still teach the fundamentals well enough that you could make Professional Archer with practice in real life. First I am going to give the default parameters. Then I will tell you what they govern. Finally, I will give the parameters needed to make it useful.

 

I play a Male High Elf, and chose the Elven Bow for my bow, and Elven Arrows. The parameters are common and only the weight and damage varies according to the type of bow and arrow.

 

Elven Bow:

 

Weight = 16.0000 (I assume it is US Pounds)

Range = 0.0000

Speed = 1.0000

 

Elven Arrow:

 

Weight = 0.1000

Speed = 1.0000

 

Weight governs how much the item weighs, and Bows are very light weight. I had a friend who had a bow made of solid Spring Steel and it only weighed 2 pounds!

 

Range governs haw FAR the arrow will travel. Note the default! This is primarily why Archery SUCKS in the game!!!!

Speed for Bows governs how fast you can fire it.

Speed for Arrows governs how fast the arrow travels.

 

Now for the recommended parameters:

 

Bow:

 

Weight: 0.1000 to 2.0000 and no more than 2.0000

 

Range: 4.0000 MINIMUM

 

Speed: 2.0000

 

Arrow:

 

Weight: 0.0000 (I understand they did this in Skyrim)

 

Speed: 8.0000 MAXIMUM

 

You will need 2 sets of bows and arrows modded identically (Not enchanted), so you do not have to adjust your targeting when you switch between them.

 

TIP: The farther the target is from you, the HIGHER you will have to AIM in order to hit the target!!!!

 

When Modding. I always add PLA to the end of the Editor ID, and give a unique Name to the Item or spell. BE SURE TO WRITE DOWN THE NAME AND ITEM CODES!!!!! Give your Mod a Unique Name. Since this is for your personal usage. you don't have to be too creative. I used the mod name of Experiment (.esp), since I was experimenting with the Construction Set. It is very similar to the Fallout 3 Geck. The Geck has a couple of additional features that make finding something much easier than hunting it down in the CS,

 

You will need a Silver Bow and Silver Arrows for dealing with Undead. Then you will need to mod the Bow and Arrows of your preference. Set the damage to what you prefer. I do advise that you increase it some. How much you increase it depends on your tastes.

 

The purpose of this is to make Archery useful for the Player. One last thing, is that you should increase the Health of the items.